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Monday 12-Jan-2009 5:36 PM Instrument sales up 27 percent thanks to games Music games like Guitar Hero are "reinvigorating the music industry" and boosting real guitar sales, Activision has claimed. Speaking during his CES keynote last week, Activision Publishing CEO Mike Griffith claimed that ...
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Guitar Hero Boosts Real Guitar Sales
The Escapist : Latest News —
... $1 billion in sales. I'm sure a lot of you have heard this one before, maybe over lunch with some non-gamer friends or during the tail end of a Rock Band party when you decide to go get a drink of water and happen to start up a conversation with the one person who hasn't been playing all night: "Why don't you just play a real instrument?" I usually argue that the experience of playing a music game and actually playing music are two wholly different things. If we take Activision's word for it, though, the former can be a bridge to the latter, as a 27 percent growth in real ...
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... According to Guitar Center, sales of guitars were up 27% in 2007 and they're attributing that success to music games. Activision is more than happy to claim all the credit. [CVG] ...
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