While new digital music services competing with iTunes and free peer-to-peer services have struggled to convince music fans to pay $1 for a single, downloadable tracks for games like 'Rock Band' and 'Guitar Hero' are flying off the digital shelves.

Five live downloadable tracks from the 1969 concert by The Rolling Stones will be digitally released for Guitar Hero 5, to coincide with ABKCO ‘s 40th Anniversary Deluxe Box Set release of GET. REUTERS/Lucas JacksonĪctivision, meanwhile, said it has sold more than 5 million new songs via download for “Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock” since it began adding downloadable content in early November.īy comparison, it took wireless operator Sprint four months to sell 1 million songs on its over-the-air full-song download service. “With such a low installation base, we didn’t think that there’d be 2 million songs sold in eight weeks,” MTVN Music Group/Logo/Films division president Van Toffler said. Guitar Hero Live does not use traditional downloadable content to expand the game. “We live in a rough time around music where our audience struggles to pay $20 for a CD but don’t hesitate to pay $50 for a game. The notion to pay 99 cents or $1.99 to have a song and repeatedly play with it apparently isn’t a big hurdle.” FreeStyleGames selected on-disc songs from a wider variety of music. Even as a money-deprived college student, I didn’t hesitate to spend 2 if it meant providing my friends and me with a more enjoyable experience.

The original “Rock Band” and “Guitar Hero” games shipped with more than 50 licensed songs each, a mix of master recordings and covers. Perhaps that’s why when I heard that when Guitar Hero Live would feature microtransactions in its GHTV mode, I wasn’t particularly worried. The game delivers more than 40 songs in its offline. Since then, “Rock Band” has made new music available every week as either singles or in three-pack bundles that can be added as new playable levels for between 99 cents and $5.50. “Guitar Hero III” did the same, focusing on three-song bundles of new music and music featured in previous versions of the game.

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