Guitar Hero 5 Calls It. Victorrrryyyy.

Last week here in the U.K. Guitar Hero 5 debuted in the top position in terms of units sold across all platforms despite being available at retail for only two days that week.  Impressive!

“Guitar Hero 5 is the best Guitar Hero game yet and this success validates the strength of the franchise,” says Dan Rosensweig, President and CEO of Guitar Hero. “With Guitar Hero 5, we have assembled the best and most varied music line-up to date and added all new features that make Guitar Hero 5 the most innovative and social game in the category. We have long known how great this game is, and it is awesome to see that fans agree with us, especially fans in the U.K.” Sounds like he might get a bonus this Christmas.

With the entire set list unlocked from the start, artists and bands such as The Rolling Stones, The White Stripes, Kings of Leon, Tom Petty, Bob Dylan and Vampire Weekend all seem to have been more appealing than the other big release that week which, of course, was The Beatles : Rock Band.

From here on out it’s going to get interesting as both releases jockey for position near the top of the chart; and moving further ahead it really is a two publisher Christmas season with EA (Rock Band) bringing FIFA 2010 to the table in October, and Activision (Guitar Hero) bringing Modern Warfare 2.  Which will rack up bigger sales?  We don’t know, but we’re sure interested in finding out.  Nobody knows what Bobby Kotick, pictured, had to say about the success of the title here in the United Kingdom; but one can assume he just looked at his company’s bottom line then went back to surveying his audiences for another years worth of price gouging.