Hailed as a growing revenue stream for musicians and labels, the music video game sector might not be living up to it's expectations. Variety reports that Rock Band sold 809,000 units domestically and Guitar Hero World Tour sold 1.5 million units.
According to paidcontent.org here are the numbers:
Music remains the biggest-selling games genre and, according to NPD Group, brings in 16 percent of all gaming revenue. But music games overall saw a six percent drop in revenue despite some high-profile launches. Now with sales are slowing, revenue from extra tracks to play along to is of huge importance even though the cash is split with music publishers: at the cost of about $2 each, Guitar Hero players have bought 25 million tracks while Rock Band fans have paid for 30 million. Sales data for December is out on January 15 and will show how all the big titles did over Christmas.
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