![]() Sales data for December is out on January 15 and will show how all the big titles squared up over Christmas. ![]() Now sales are slowing, revenue from extra tracks to play along to is of huge importance even though the cash is split with music publishers: at the cost of about $2 each, Guitar Hero players have bought 25 million tracks while Rock Band fans have paid for 30 million. Music remains the biggest-selling games genre and according to NPD Group brings in 16 percent of all gaming revenuebut music games overall saw a six percent drop in revenue despite some high profile launches. ![]() And games launched to cash in on the music games market, perhaps most notably Nintendo's Wii Music, have been met with mixed reviews and even worse sales figures. Activision's last installment in the series, Guitar Hero III, sold 55 percent more than World Tour. reports that Viacom-Harmonix's Rock Band 2 sold 809,000 copies last year domestically while Activision-Blizzard's Guitar Hero: World Tour shifted 1.5 million units in the USboth far below the franchises' 2007 figures. Though hailed simultaneously as possible saviors of the video games and music industries, new figures show that appetite for music video games like Guitar Hero is falling away as entertainment spending slows. ![]()
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