Guitar Hero Surpasses 15 Million Song Downloads
Posted by Chris on Monday, May 12th, 2008 at 12:13 pm under Activision, Electronic Arts, Game Companies, Game Consoles, Game Platforms, Games, Microsoft, Sony
Activision has announced a new milestone Guitar Hero has achieved. Not to be upstaged by the former guitar heroes at Harmonix, who recently announced that Rock Band had passed the 10 million songs downloaded mark, Activision announced at a recent conference call that Guitar Hero has surpassed the 15 million downloaded songs mark.
That’s certainly an impressive figure that’s larger than Harmonix’s, but these numbers do, after all, include Guitar Hero II on Xbox 360. A commenter on Xbox 360 Fanboy made the keen observation that these don’t necessarily reflect the number of songs purchased, and Guitar Hero has seen several free tracks released.
But it seems clear that both companies are finding DLC to be a profitable form of business. Not profitable enough, though, as the cash-in known as Guitar Hero: Aerosmith proves.
via Joystiq
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May 12th, 2008 at 1:56 pm
May 12th, 2008 at 1:58 pm
May 12th, 2008 at 2:16 pm
"A commenter on Xbox 360 Fanboy made the keen observation that these don’t necessarily reflect the number of songs purchased, and Guitar Hero has seen several free tracks released."
Not so impressive when you consider that.
May 12th, 2008 at 3:24 pm
Personally, I find these numbers hard to believe, until you realize that they include GH2 as well. There is no question that Rock Band is winning the battle of the rhythm games, especially on the DLC front, where they add new content every single week. Lord knows if I had the money back I've spent on Rock Band DLC, I could buy my own island.