http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=22927

" The Rock Band franchise has topped $1 billion dollars in retail sales in North America in the last 15 months, say MTV, Harmonix and Electronic Arts.

Over the same time period, players have bought 40 million Rock Band songs from the game's digital catalog of over 600 songs by 269 artists.

According to NPD data, Rock Band is the top game of 2008 in terms of revenue, and both the original game and Rock Band 2 have together earned more than 50 awards, the companies say, boasting an average Metacritic score of 92.

In particular, the companies are highlighting Rock Band's role as trailblazer for digitally-distributed content as well as its relationship with the music industry -- it's apparently the first music game to release a song (Mötley Crüe’s "Saints of Los Angeles") on the same day as its radio release."

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Damn! How'd that happen? I would have figured that Guitar Hero made more revenue. And if Guitar Hero wasn't enough, Wii Fit would have been. Well, congrats to Harmonix either way, even if I still prefer Guitar Hero's song selection.

If youve seen the other thread, I think you'll conclude that GH will be soon catching up in terms of retail revenues with another year and spin-off or two, although I think that GH will always be the follower when it comes to DLC revenues - the library just isn't as extensive or as good (yet).

Still, I'm a GH man through and through.

1 Billion in THE US ALONE?

Anyway, I'm not shocked by it beating Wii Fit.

Rockband sales (some of these are from 07 though, December there)

8.24M (Like 7M if you take away 07).

Wii Fit (pure 08)

4.94M

Of course, worldwide shows a completely different result.

I would imagine the profit would be enormous on this as well, considering the massive amount generated from DLC.

Not that hard considering the full game costs an upwards of 180 dollars.