Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock was notably absent from last night’s NPD sales chart for the month of September. That’s already a fairly alarming sign for Neversoft’s latest shred-fest (and for the rhythm genre in general), but in case you were wondering exactly how rough things are getting for Guitar Hero, just take a look at this number: 86,000.
That, according to Cowen & Company analyst Doug Creutz (via CVG), is the total number of copies Warriors of Rock sold in its debut month. For a little context, Guitar Hero 5‘s first-month NPD sales reached 210,000 on the Xbox 360 alone, while Guitar Hero: World Tour moved more than 500,000 units in just a week.
To be fair, Warriors of Rock didn’t even hit retail until the very end of September. Still, that’s a pretty sharp decline from the days when Guitar Hero III sold 1.4 million copies in less than a week.
