Written By: Ian S. Russell
It was right here on Scorpio Review all those years ago that we reported on this odd little music game called 'Guitar hero' that hoped to blur the line between arcade gaming & home gaming - Well, we were of-cause sceptical of there ambition. We then saw 1 of the biggest gaming crazies since the gaming world was set alive by a fat little pumber, his mate & a dinosaur (if you don't know what I'm referring to, stop reading now).
New titles issued in 2009 included Guitar Hero: Metallica, Rock Band: The Beatles, Guitar Hero V and Guitar Hero: Van Halen. The Beatles Rock Band game sold only 1.2 million copies, far less than publisher EA Games had expected - famously this was the 1st game ever to have obtained publishing rights for the Beatles back catolog, and had been antisipaited as one of the best games of 2009.
Well 4 years on from that start of the Guitar Hero game smashed it way into stores world-wide, the bubble seems to have burst on the fad, As The Pulse of Radio reports:
'Sales for music-based video games, including titles focused on METALLICA, VAN HALEN and THE BEATLES, took a dive in 2009 and show no immediate signs of reviving, according to The Wrap. While overall video game sales were off, industry analyst The NPD Group reported that sales for the Guitar Hero and Rock Band franchises were down 36 percent in 2009 from the previous year, with copies sold plunging from over 25 million units in 2008 to less than 16 million last year. While the business earned $1.6 billion in 2008, it made less than $900 million just 12 months later.
New titles issued in 2009 included Guitar Hero: Metallica, Rock Band: The Beatles, Guitar Hero V and Guitar Hero: Van Halen. The Beatles Rock Band game sold only 1.2 million copies, far less than publisher EA Games had expected - famously this was the 1st game ever to have obtained publishing rights for the Beatles back catolog, and had been antisipaited as one of the best games of 2009.
It is heavily rumoured that both the Rock Band and Guitar Hero games will continue, with band-specific games in the works for: Pearl Jam, U2, Jimi Hendrix, And even iconic Rock Band The Who.-------------------------------------
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