US music game revenues down in November
The sharp decline in music game sales continues: new stats from analyst Wedbush Morgan claim that Activision made $55 million from its music franchises DJ Hero, Guitar Hero and Band Hero in November – down 65% year-on-year.
Meanwhile, it claims Rock Band sales were $31 million that month – down 59% from November 2008.
“Sales of music genre games have suffered mightily in 2009, with sales through November totalling $620 million, compared to $1.19 billion in the same period a year ago,” says analyst Michael Pachter. “The $570 million decline in year-over-year music sales is responsible for two thirds of the overall decline in software sales thus far in 2009.”
There’ll be a bump in December as people buy games as presents – with retailers already discounting the Beatles and DJ Hero titles. Meanwhile, GamesIndustry.biz quotes Microsoft’s David Dennis as saying downloadable content for music games continues to sell well.
Tags: dj hero, Guitar Hero, Rock Band
December 15th, 2009 at 11:13 am
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