Guitar Hero World Tour, the supposed "copy-cat" of Rock Band outsold its competitor two to one in 2008. Numbers collected by a game-industry research firm, NPD Group, and reported on by GameSpot showed the total US sales of World Tour vs. Rock Band 2 - revealing the winner of the mega-franchise battle. Take a look:
Sounds to me like the data was collected too early to show Rock Band 2's real numbers and Guitar Hero World Tour was just getting sales because of the Guitar Hero brand.
Besides the Rock Band series was the first and therefore is better then Guitar Hero right?
The first full-band (drums, guitar/bass, and vocals) installment in Activision's billion-dollar franchise sold 3.4 million copies domestically, twice as many as Rock Band 2's 1.7 million haul...
Though the two-to-one ratio is a blowout victory in purely dollar terms, several factors play a role in World Tour's success. For one, the Guitar Hero brand is better known than Rock Band, even though the latter series is generally better received by critics. Besides being available in more retail configurations, Guitar Hero World Tour also went on sale on all platforms--the Wii, Xbox 360, PlayStation 2, and PlayStation 3--on October 26. By contrast, Rock Band 2 rolled out onto its console on a staggered schedule, hitting the 360 on September 14, the PS3 October 19, and the Wii and PlayStation 2 on December 18. That means that only 13 days' worth of sales on the two latter platforms--which have the biggest installed bases in the US--were recorded by NPD.
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Though the two-to-one ratio is a blowout victory in purely dollar terms, several factors play a role in World Tour's success. For one, the Guitar Hero brand is better known than Rock Band, even though the latter series is generally better received by critics. Besides being available in more retail configurations, Guitar Hero World Tour also went on sale on all platforms--the Wii, Xbox 360, PlayStation 2, and PlayStation 3--on October 26. By contrast, Rock Band 2 rolled out onto its console on a staggered schedule, hitting the 360 on September 14, the PS3 October 19, and the Wii and PlayStation 2 on December 18. That means that only 13 days' worth of sales on the two latter platforms--which have the biggest installed bases in the US--were recorded by NPD.
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Sounds to me like the data was collected too early to show Rock Band 2's real numbers and Guitar Hero World Tour was just getting sales because of the Guitar Hero brand.
Besides the Rock Band series was the first and therefore is better then Guitar Hero right?