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Activision: Guitar Hero III is first title to generate sales of $1 billion
joystiq.com - 1/13/2009
Activision: Guitar Hero III is first title to generate sales of $1 billion
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Activision recently announced that Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock has become the first game ever to reach $1 billion in sales. This comes a little under a year from when the publisher announced that the Guitar Hero franchise has surpassed the billion dollar mark . Not bad for a series the ...

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Guitar Hero 3 Hits $1B Milesone
Evil Avatar - News Items — ... According to Activision by way of Joystiq, Guitar Hero 3 is the first franchise game ever to top $1 Billion in sales. Interesting enough, Activision only paid $100 Million to get the name a year earlier... so that's a pretty good investment I think. ...

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