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Activision: Initial DJ Hero Sales Might Be Slow
October 23, 2009 - Activision's newest upcoming music title, DJ Hero , has a lot to live up to. After releasing several successful iterations of the Guitar Hero franchise, the publisher decided to try something new by releasing a DJ-based game using a turntable controller, and exposing its ...
Guitar Hero without a guitar
procrastineering.blogspot.com — This year, I'm helping the User Interface Software and Technology (UIST) conference put their proceedings videos online... so that more people can access them. So far, I've gotten most of the videos from this year uploaded to the conference YouTube ... (more) Guitar Hero without a guitar
Football Hero mod takes Arduino to the Kasabian-approved big leagues (video)
Football Hero mod takes Arduino to the Kasabian-approved big leagues (video)
engadget.com — Some folks say less is more, but we'll bet they never saw Guitar Hero being played by... kicking footballs against a giant wall. This epic undertaking will give your plastic axe a major inadequacy complex with its huge wall-mounted piezo vibration ... (more) Football Hero mod takes Arduino to the Kasabian-approved ...
DJ Hero hit by low pre
DJ Hero hit by low pre
t3.com — DJ Hero hit by low pre-order sales woe Activision's fun turntable game hasn't attracted many pre-orders, according... to analysts DJ Hero doesn't go on sale until the 30th of October, but already it's being hit with poor sales expectations. In fact, ... (more) DJ Hero hit by low pre
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Guitar Hero co-founder expects DJ Hero to have slower initial sales
Joystiq — ... It's rare that we hear anything but doe-eyed optimism from publishers of yet-to-be-released games -- however, Activision's Kai Huang, co-creator of the Guitar Hero franchise, recently voiced some fairly realistic expectations for the upcoming disc-spinning ...

Analyst: DJ Hero Pre-Order Activity Weak
Edge Online - Interactive Entertainment Today — ... to 600,000, and we are reducing our first year estimate from 2.5 million to 950,000. Creutz s comments were made shortly after Guitar Hero co-founder Kai Huang said that Activision isn t anticipating a traditional sales curve for DJ Hero ."We're not expecting a typical videogame curve where you sell the majority of the units in the first month and then it decays quickly," Red Octane's president stated during a panel at the Play Digital Media Conference in Berkeley, according to IGN . "We're expecting this to be the type of game that may come out of the gate a little bit ...

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