Guitar Hero Outselling Rock Band Six To One

18 Sep 2008 at 12:26:31 by Andy Alderson

Guitar Hero is outselling Rock Band six to one, according to Activision boss, Bobby Kotick.

Speaking at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia XVII Conference, Kotick stressed that the Activision music game franchise was dominating the competition. Kotaku reports he had this to say about the rivalry with Harmonix:

"We’re outselling [Rock Band] 6:1. When you think about the access we have to 30% of the world’s music at Universal, we have a unique advantage there. I would also say when you look at resources, you know, our next-nearest competitor has a couple of hundred people working on these projects, we have close to 2000 people just dedicated to the Guitar Hero note tracking, introduction of new hardware, introduction of new software, and so we just have a lot more in the way of resources available to us to continue to dominate the category"

Kotick's comments follow rumours that a Hendrix version of Guitar Hero is in the works, as well as an AC/DC version of Rock Band.

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