Guitar Hero
III: Legends
of Rock
Wireless
Guitar
Controllers
Hitting
Retail
Shelves in
Early 2008
SANTA
MONICA,
Calif., Nov
26, 2007:
Activision,
Inc. (Nasdaq:ATVI)
today
announced
that
standalone
wireless
guitar
controllers
for Guitar
Hero III:
Legends of
Rock will be
available at
retail
stores
nationwide
by early
2008.
Guitar Hero
III: Legends
of Rock lets
fans thrash
and burn
with new
wireless
guitar
controllers
available
for each
platform,
including
exclusive
Gibson
Guitar's Les
Paul model
for the Xbox
360TM video
game and
entertainment
system from
Microsoft,
WiiTM home
video game
system from
Nintendo,
and
PLAYSTATION®3
computer
entertainment
system.
PlayStation®2
gamers will
also get to
shred on an
exclusive
shape,
Gibson's
Kramer
guitar,
popularized
by hard
rockers and
known for
its body
design,
pickups,
electronics
and
construction
for furious
finger
fretting.
About
Gibson:
Gibson is
known
worldwide
for
producing
classic
models in
every major
style of
fretted
instrument,
including
acoustic and
electric
guitars,
mandolins,
and banjos.
Gibson's
HD.6X-PRO
Digital
Guitar
represents
the biggest
advance in
electric
guitar
design in
over 70
years.
Founded in
1894 in
Kalamazoo,
Michigan,
and
headquartered
in Nashville
since 1984,
Gibson
Guitar
Corp.'s
family of
brands now
includes
Epiphone,
Dobro,
Maestro,
Kramer,
Steinberger,
Tobias,
Echoplex,
Electar,
Flatiron,
Gibson
Baldwin
Music
Education,
Slingerland,
Valley Arts,
Oberheim,
Sunshine
Piano, Take
Anywhere
Technology,
Baldwin, J&C
Fischer,
Chickering,
Hamilton,
and
Wurlitzer.
Visit
Gibson's
website at
www.gibson.com
or
www.gibson.com/press.
About
Activision
Headquartered
in Santa
Monica,
California,
Activision,
Inc. is a
leading
worldwide
developer,
publisher
and
distributor
of
interactive
entertainment
and leisure
products.
Founded in
1979,
Activision
posted net
revenues of
$1.5 billion
for the
fiscal year
ended March
31, 2007.
Activision
maintains
operations
in the U.S.,
Canada, the
United
Kingdom,
France,
Germany,
Ireland,
Italy,
Sweden,
Spain, the
Netherlands,
Australia,
Japan and
South Korea.
More
information
about
Activision
and its
products can
be found on
the
company's
World Wide
Web site,
which is
located at
www.activision.com.
Cautionary
Note
Regarding
Forward-looking
Statements:
Information
in this
press
release that
involves
Activision's
expectations,
plans,
intentions
or
strategies
regarding
the future
are
forward-looking
statements
that are not
facts and
involve a
number of
risks and
uncertainties.
In this
release they
are
identified
by
references
to dates
after the
date of this
release and
words such
as "will,"
"will be,"
"remains,"
"to be,"
"plans,"
"believes",
"may,"
"expects,"
"intends,"
and similar
expressions.
These risks
and
uncertainties
include, but
are not
limited to,
sales of
Activision's
titles,
shifts in
consumer
spending
trends, the
seasonal and
cyclical
nature of
the
interactive
game market,
Activision's
ability to
predict
consumer
preferences
among
competing
hardware
platforms
(including
next-generation
hardware),
declines in
software
pricing,
product
returns and
price
protection,
product
delays,
retail
acceptance
of
Activision's
products,
adoption
rate and
availability
of new
hardware and
related
software,
industry
competition,
rapid
changes in
technology
and industry
standards,
protection
of
proprietary
rights,
maintenance
of
relationships
with key
personnel,
customers,
vendors and
third-party
developers,
international
economic and
political
conditions,
integration
of recently
acquired
subsidiaries
and
identification
of suitable
future
acquisition
opportunities,
limitations
on our
ability to
issue stock
and options
and foreign
exchange
rate
changes.
Other
factors that
could cause
Activision's
actual
future
results to
differ
materially
from those
expressed in
the
forward-looking
statements
set forth in
this release
include,
without
limitation,
the further
implementation,
acceptance
and
effectiveness
of the
remedial
measures
recommended
or adopted
by the
special
sub-committee
of
independent
directors
established
in July 2006
to review
Activision's
historical
stock option
granting
practices,
the board
and
Activision;
the outcome
of the SEC's
formal
investigation
and the
derivative
litigation
filed in
July 2006
against
certain
current and
former
directors
and officers
of
Activision
relating to
Activision's
stock option
granting
practices,
the
possibility
that
additional
claims and
proceedings
will be
commenced,
including
additional
stockholder
litigation,
employee
litigation,
and
additional
action by
the SEC
and/or other
regulatory
agencies,
other
litigation
(unrelated
to stock
option
granting
practices),
and the
risks
identified
in
Activision's
most recent
annual
report on
Form 10-K
and recent
reports on
Form 8-K.
The
forward-looking
statements
in this
release are
based upon
information
available to
Activision
as of the
date of this
release, and
Activision
assumes no
obligations
to update
any such
forward-looking
statement.
Forward-looking
statements
believed to
be true when
made may
ultimately
prove to be
incorrect.
These
statements
are not
guarantees
of future
performance
and are
subject to
risks,
uncertainties
and other
factors,
some of
which are
beyond our
control and
may cause
actual
results to
differ
materially
from our
current
expectations.
Guitar Hero
has expanded
well beyond
video games
and is one
of the
biggest
entertainment
franchises
in the
marketplace
today. The
franchise
has remained
the #1
best-selling
franchise in
the U.S.
through
October,
according to
the NPD
Group. The
Guitar Hero
franchise
has sold
more than 6
million
units
worldwide to
date,
according to
The NPD
Group,
Charttrack
and Gfk.