While NPD Group’s November game industry sales report shed further light on a slumping market for music games Microsoft has said digital tracks are selling well on Xbox Live, reports Gamesindustry.biz. November showed considerable declines of 65 percent for Activision’s Hero music games and 59 percent for MTV Games Rock Band franchise. The declines were in spite of high-profile fall releases such as The Beatles: Rock Band for MTV, and DJ Hero and Band Hero for Activision.
Microsoft says despite the slumping sales for the new titles, downloadable music tracks are selling well on Xbox Live. While not providing figures or specifics, Microsoft’s David Dennis told GI.biz that digital sales of individual tracks and song packs are going strong. He said that as players adopt games in the music genre where new titles require purchasing expensive plastic peripherals they become “passionate” about building their music collection by buying digital tracks.
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