Guitar Hero 5 outsells The Beatles: Rock Band

LTNChica — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 03:41:15 +0000

It was a big week when both The Beatles: Rock Band and Guitar Hero 5 were made available to you. Two music based video games being released so close together gives many people with a choice as they may only want to buy one. Although The Beatles: Rock Band is having a lot success with sales, Activision reports that The Fab Four is no match for Guitar Hero 5. Announced by the Financial Times:

“Dan Rosensweig, head of the Guitar Herodivision at Activision, told the Financial Times it had seen no impact from the heavily-marketed Beatles game. ‘It did not affect our sales’. He added that Guitar Hero outsold Rock Band by four to one in the US and nine to one in other markets.”

Before both of these games were even released last month, the prediction was made by analysts that Guitar Hero 5 would outsell The Beatles: Rock Band by as much as two times. Since The Beatles is a British band, you would think that The Beatles: Rock Band would at least outsell Guitar Hero 5 in England, but that is wrong which is something that definitely surprises me.

It has not yet been completely confirmed if Guitar Hero 5 is really outselling The Beatles: Rock Band. However, if this is true, will this trend continue for much longer?

Several Guitar Hero 5 Tracks Announced

Jared Stenzel — Mon, 18 May 2009 21:06:13 +0000

It’s getting close to the time of the games release so Activision is slowly starting to leak the titles of the songs that we will be seeing on the game. I’m really liking the playlist. It’s a lot of old song, most of them probably before my time. I like playing the older songs versus the Guitar Hero: World Tour taking a more modern approach in many of their songs. The classic oldies that we may have never heard are always the most fun to play.

Johnny Cash – Ring of Fire
Bob Dylan – All Along The Watchtower
Kings of Leon – Sex on Fire
Tom Petty – Runnin’ Down a Dream
The Rolling Stones – Sympathy for the Devil
Santana – No One To Depend On
Vampire Weekend – A-Punk
The White Stripes – Blue Orchid
Stevie Wonder – Superstition

Is there any song in there that you want to buy the game especially for? I want to play Ring of Fire. I’ll probably buy the game used a few months after it’s release simply because I don’t play the game that much, but if I do buy it, this is one of the songs I bought it to play.

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Guitar Hero 5 outsells The Beatles: Rock Band

Several Guitar Hero 5 Tracks Announced