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Sympathy For Konami
GiantRealm | Gaming — ... , like sewage backing up through the drain while you're taking a shower. But the final moment of shame came with the October NPD sales figures . The game only sold around 3000 units across all three platforms. On the Wii, if the NPD's numbers are to be believed, it only sold two units. That's not a typo. Two. You don't get miserable sales like that from bad word of mouth. I'm guessing that the game just didn't make it onto store shelves. With shelf space at a premium, big boxes like Best Buy and Target probably chose not to order. And game chains who did stock the game ...

World Tour Sales Half of Guitar Hero III
The Escapist : Latest News — ... fewer people purchased World Tour but paid 50 percent more ($82 for Guitar Hero 3 and $122 for World Tour ). Slowing sales could become a serious issue for Activision, which seems intent on iterating on Guitar Hero until every gaming groupie the series has has been tapped. If the big-budget music games could take a year off to build deep downloadable content catalogs, gamers would remain interested in the genre without feeling tired of the brands. Source: Gamasutra , GameSpot