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Forums - Sales - Guitar Hero: On Tour sells 300k 1st Week

Dolla Dolla on 03 July 2008

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/guitar-hero-on-tour-hits-300k-in-the-us

Activision has announced that its DS music game Guitar Hero: On Tour has sold more than 300,000 units in North America during its first week on sale.

The company claims this makes it the publisher's largest North American launch for a DS title by a factor of eight, and one of Activision's top 5 best-selling launches ever.

Guitar Hero pwns wallets.

Activision reports over 300k (shipped?), VGC reports about 200k (sold to customers).

Good?



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dolemit3 on 03 July 2008

Undertracked, for sure. These sales are fantastic and should make into the top ten for this month.



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Erik Aston on 03 July 2008

Actually, I'd guess this is based on Activision's own internal sales tracking, not just their shipments.

Here's the actual press release, since GI.biz guy can't figure out US vs. NA. It's NA, and its the "first seven days since its launch."

http://investor.activision.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=319484

So depending what day the game launched and what days VGC covered, maybe its not bad for VGC.



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brute on 03 July 2008

i think vgchartz has it good,cause that might be the first 7 days of sales



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FishyJoe on 03 July 2008

I'm surprised that it didn't boost DS sales to any noticeable degree.



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mrstickball on 03 July 2008

Fishy -

I would assume that DS saturation in the US is about as high as it's going to be for a game like GH:OT, therefore a high-selling game such as this won't really effect sales of the DS.



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Smeags on 03 July 2008
FishyJoe said:
I'm surprised that it didn't boost DS sales to any noticeable degree.

 

Indeed, especially with the new On Tour DS bundle. Still, I'm thinking that this game is going to have massive legs. On Tour is an extremely fun game and it deserves every sale it gets.



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Erik Aston on 03 July 2008

Based on the launch, I'd put the over/under for lifetime worldwide sales at about 2.75M.



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kingofwale on 03 July 2008
dolemit3 said:
Undertracked, for sure. These sales are fantastic and should make into the top ten for this month.

 

hmm, why?

MGS4 shipped 3 million and now is around just over 2 million sold to customer. VGC's number on GH looks very credible here.



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noname2200 on 03 July 2008

I suppose the numbers on Guitar Heros have skewed my perspective, but I'm a bit surprised that it's that low. Still, Activision seems quite pleased with the results, and the franchise generally sells well over time, so...yeah?