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Guitar Hero: On Tour a hit, 300k sold in first week

by Alexander Sliwinski on Jul 3rd 2008 1:30PM

Activision announced this morning that Guitar Hero: On Tour is booking gigs all over and has sold 300,000 units in its first week. The publisher states that GH:OT is the company's best launch on the DS by a factor of eight; not only that, but it's also one of the top five best-selling launches "in the company's history."

Activision's Mike Griffith -- who's probably still high from his $1.5 million bonus -- is excited about GH:OT's "breakthrough peripheral" bringing the Guitar Hero experience to the potential 41 million DS owners in NA and Europe. All we know is we'll have entered a strange new world if we start seeing people playing this game on public transportation.

Guitar Hero: On Tour (DS)

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Tags: Activision, DS, GH-On-Tour, Guitar-Hero, Guitar-Hero-DS, Guitar-Hero-On-Tour, Music, Nintendo, sales, Vicarious-Visions

Reader Comments (38)

I really can't believe that many people have bought this game. It's a portable game that makes you look like an asshole when you play it outside of your house.

For that matter, where are the Guitar Hero: Aerosmith numbers? That game should be selling like hot cakes because Guitar Hero is branded to it. It's Aerosmith, people! They're ridiculously overrated and what's more is that the guitarist barely switches it up from chords.

Believe it or not.

Some people actually like Aerosmith,shocking isn't it?

I like Aersomith but I've never heard most of the songs in GH:A.I'll give a try tho' is my money anyway.

You'll look like an asshole playing a DS outside your house regardless.

It can't be worst than playing Doki Doki Majo Shinpan in public...not that I know.

DM, you probably look like an asshole with or without a DS.

I think I will give it a try even when the package looks a lot like a Crayola box.

fuck it, if i still cared about the complete shitpile that the rhythm music genre has quickly become, i'd rock that on a bus...

Too bad guitar hero and rock band have long outlived their usefulness in my world.

God I long for the day when muisic games were an exclusive niche genre that were only played in arcades....then Konami had to little-girl-ify DDR and that went to hell. The first GH was good but has gone downhill since.

WE HAD A GOOD GAME....IT WAS CALLED ITG....KONAMI KILLED IT BECAUSE THEY GOT BUTTHURT THAT IT WAS ACTUALLY BETTER

/rage

ITG may be better, but DDR is still awesome.

Did anyone really expect it to fail? It's Guitar Hero, it's on the DS.

EPIC SUCCESS!

Rock Band: On Tour inbound in 5... 4... 3...

No way would we every feasibly see a Rock Band iteration on the DS. Even though I could see it working obviously with the mic and fret button attachment the drums would be possible but not reasonable (or Fun) to play with the touch screen.

My hope is that if EA and Harmonix do decide to go mobile they just keep simple but still fun. They could also build in some features that would let Rock Band 2 work with the mobile version. I say call it "Rock Band : Roadies".

Well... I have the game. The hardware is pretty solid, very well done. And the sound quality is good enough.

Gameplay feels exactly like Guitar Hero. Only problem is that $50 dlls. is a lot for just 25 songs.

Best deal would be $40... not cheaper, because the hardware is pretty good quality.

But I prefer Elite Beat Agents or Ouendan over this...

Elite Beat Agents is more fun, much better gameplay and the stories and characters are very funny.

if only the elite beat songs were better :(

I loooooved EBA, the songs were pretty good too (IMO). I didn't like the avril lavigne song, but playing that level was fun.

Speaking of guitars check out what I just brought yesterday. :)

http://www.guitarcenter.com/item/expandedimage.aspx?t=4&img=Schecter/229611jpg.jpg

It's a good game and people go insane bashing it. I don't really play my DS outside, so I can't talk about people's reactions to it, but I love playing it at home. It's fun and easy, and a great way to pass time.

I'm not surprised. The DS is a phenomenon, GH is a phenomenon - combine that two and, regardless of the quality of the game - though it actually looks pretty good, you've got an all but guaranteed success.

Holy Sh*t! I got this game and I still can't make it through a song w/o my wrist going into extreme cramping. I've tried holding it all different kind of positions. Maybe I'm just old, but I never have had videogame related injuries before except blisters on thumbs from street fighter II.

Any tips?

I guess you haven't played Metroid Prime then.

^fiddlesticks. I meant hunters.

MP:H was my first DS game, and it scared the crap out of me because I thought all DS games would cause massive hand cramps.

lol @ 'fiddlesticks' it just made me laugh, I don't know why.

Mario Kart DS turned my hands into withered little bat-claws. :(

I just dont get it...

You must be straight.

Is it just me who think the look graphically on this.. isn't that much different of the Wii version. Of course there are differences, but it's not a giant leap :P

psp ver kthxbai

Can you even imagine how hard it would be to hold it if it was on PSP? Plus they'd have to add a strum and make it even bigger! Though I guess UMD would be able to hold more songs.
Well, I can't say I'm surprised this game sold well. Guess I'll buy it.

"You'll look like an asshole playing a DS outside your house regardless."

Newsflash dude. Everybody looks liek an asshole palying any kind of video game no matter where they're at.

The key is NOT CARING.

I'll echo Co's comments. WHO CARES what you look like for goddsakes? You look like a complete moron with a headset playing 360 inside, but somehow you care about what the world thinks, heaven forbid, if you play a handheld game outside the sanctity of your home?

GH for DS was surprsingly well done. My girlfriend has been playing the hell out of it. But I do have to agree, it hurts the hell out of my hand, just like Metroid on DS did.

It's an ergonomic nightmare :(

I guess this means...SOMETIMES YOU CAN SELL!!!!!

It would be impossible on the PSP unless you had some huge device plugged into it. But it does have the extra space with the UMD so that would be nice cause it would include more songs but best fits the DS : )

Damn it. I was hoping to god this thing would fail. A friend mine said that guitar is becoming the next Sidekick or Razor phone. Everyone gets just because it's what the "kool kids" are doing. But in this case it's more like what the "Stoopid people" are doing.

i meant to say guitar hero*

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