Guitar Hero III first game to make $1 billion

by David Hinkle on Jan 12th 2009 11:47AM

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 Rock. That game alone has generated over $1 billion in sales, making it the first game in history to do so. The news was presented by Activision Publishing CEO Mike Griffith during a keynote speech at CES.

We're not sure how much an impact the Wii version itself has had, but consider it to be significant. The Wii version of the game has been very popular for quite some time now. Well, up until World Tour released, anyway.

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Reader Comments (4)

Isn't the Wii version the highest selling version or something?

This probably has a lot to do with the fact that the guitar controller is so overpriced. Hell, the Wii version is hardly a controller at all and more of an extention.

First game *with an expensive accessory*

It only sold that much because most versions of the game is $200, that's around 4 times a normal games cost.