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Article: Rock Band vs Guitar Hero - this generation's Blur vs Oasis
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- The Irish Times
- Article date:
- September 25, 2009
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REVOLVER: The Beatles music game may have broken all records when
the "extra" track, All You Need Is Love, became the fasting selling
downloadable song in Rock Band'shistory, but that's not the real
music game story this month.
While The Beatles game has been credited with a sudden spike in
the sales of Xbox, PlayStation and Wii consoles, there is still a
vicious fight between the game and the new Guitar Hero 5at the point
of retail. Rock Band vs Guitar Herois this generation's Blur vs
Oasis. And, surprisingly, Guitar Hero appears to be winning out.
Guitar Hero 5's marketers, knowing the competition, ordered in
heavy artillery in the shape of tracks by The Rolling Stones, David
Bowie and ...