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Guitar Hero III first game to reach $1 billion in sales
Opposable Thumbs — ... about the fact that Activision wasn't interested in pursuing games that could be developed into $100 million dollar franchises, but now it seems that he might want to up that number to over $1 billion; it was revealed that Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock has become the first single video game to surpass that amount in sales. During his keynote speech at ...

Guitar Hero III first game to make $1 billion
Joystiq [Nintendo] — ... You may recall a similar headline from the past, where the Guitar Hero franchise earned over $1 billion. Well, another milestone for Activision comes thanks to the previous title to release in the franchise, Guitar Hero III: Legends of ...

Activision: Guitar Hero III is first title to generate sales of $1 billion
Joystiq — ... 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 ...

CES 2009: Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock reaches $1 billion in sales
Destructoid — ... "poised to eclipse all other forms of entertainment in the decade ahead." "Music has a history of evolving through technology and we are at the beginning of the latest chapter in that story," says Griffith. With artists seeing higher sales after appearing in games like Guitar Hero and Rock Band, and today's youth more often than not discovering new music primarily through these games, I'm inclined to agree with that sentiment. [Via GameDaily]

Guitar Hero III First Ever Video Game to Sell $1 Billion
Planet Xbox 360 — ... aspect. 25,000 songs were created in the first 10 days and 141,000 songs have been posted so far. The Guitar Hero community site now has more than 600,000 members. To date, there have been 21 million user-song downloads. Looking at the video game business overall, Griffith sees gaming dominating. "Movies, recorded music and TV - these are all stagnating or contracting entertainment sectors. Video games are poised to eclipse all other forms of entertainment in the decade ahead." [SOURCE]

Video Games Taking Bigger Share of Entertainment Spend – Lazard
GameDaily BIZ Features Feed — ... of the annual show, Lazard Capital Markets' Colin Sebastian has commented, "While the interactive entertainment industry is traditionally not a core part of the CES conference, we note that an increasing number of game-related products and services displayed at the show is indicative of the incremental market share that video games are absorbing of consumer spending on media and entertainment." As Activision Publishing boss Mike Griffith said at the show , "Video games are poised to eclipse all other forms of entertainment in the decade ahead." One area of growth for the ...

Enough with guitars where is Synth Hero?
Technology: Games blog | guardian.co.uk — ... You probably heard this the other day but Guitar Hero III has become the first game to generate over 1 billion USD in sales. Impressive figures even if you factor in the high price for the game and guitar. But what about taking the genre to the next level? Don't get me wrong, Guitar Hero World Tour and Rock Band 2 are great fun with the right crowd, mainly because the drums are such a hoot. But what next? Yes, the publishers can keep on rolling out song packs for hoary old rockers like ACDC and Metallica. But how exciting is that? Exactly. Yes, what we need to push the music ...