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December 11th, 2009 at 12:30pm
Under Wii / Nintendo
For the sake of clarity and brevity in this week’s Rock Band Weekly, let’s split this info up:
- The Beatles: Rock Band will have the album Rubber Soul available next week. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band and Abbey Road were previously released on November 17 and October 20, respectively.
- The standard Rock Band music store receives new tracks from All-American Rejects, 30 Seconds to Mars and even more Green Day.
As a reminder, Rock Band Unplugged DLC is going on holiday for an unspecified amount of time. Check out pricing and track details after the break.
Update: MTV Games/Harmonix has corrected the pricing for Rubber Soul.
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Rock Band Weekly: Green Day, 30 Seconds to Mars, All-American Rejects, Beatles: Rubber Soul album originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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December 2nd, 2009 at 06:30pm
Under Wii / Nintendo
Sad that you missed all the Black Friday sales? Walmart wants to take advantage of that feeling of being left out, with a series of December sales and price drops. The most exciting offer: for one week (from December 5 -12), every Wii will come with a $50 gift card, effectively dropping the price to a ridiculous $150.
Walmart’s price drops on games are less dramatic, failing to reach the depths of, say, Amazon’s Black Friday weekend drops, but the list provided (after the break) does include a lot of hot games for less than MSRP — like The Beatles: Rock Band on Wii for $40 and Batman, Dragon Age, Left 4 Dead 2, and a lot more for $50 each. Walmart promises more price drops on its website and in stores. How can it afford to do this stuff?
Oh, right, by dominating the entire retail industry.
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Walmart offering $50 gift card with Wii purchase next week, cheaper games now originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 02 Dec 2009 17:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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November 18th, 2009 at 01:45pm
Under DS
In a refreshing move, Toys R Us revealed some November video game deals for Sunday, November 22 through Thursday, November 26, available both in-store and online. Therefore, they won’t require you to stand outside in the middle of the night or battle other deal-seekers for possession of a “doorbuster” (which Toys R Us is also reportedly doing). Even better, Toys R Us is the only retailer we know of handing out Cold Stone gift cards with purchases.
Starting on Sunday:
- all DS and PSP games will be buy one, get one half off.
- Wii and Xbox 360 Arcade hardware purchases will be bundled with (seriously) a $15 gift card for Wendy’s, Subway, or Cold Stone Creamery — deal available in-store only
- “Select video games” will be bundled with a $25 iTunes gift card — deal available in-store only
- The Beatles: Rock Band standalone software will be $49.99.
- The Beatles: Rock Band “Special Value Edition” will be $134.99.
- “Select video game storage units” will be $34.99.
From Friday, November 20 through Sunday, November 22, both TRU stores and Toysrus.com will offer a “Ready to Play DS Lite Pack” for $157.95, containing a DS Lite, a case, various accessories, and two DS games from an “edited assortment.” TRU says that, when purchased as part of this set, the DS comes out to $64.99.
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Toys R Us announces pre-Black Friday game deals originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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November 13th, 2009 at 11:15am
Under Xbox 360
In a move no doubt inspired by the Movember Movement, Harmonix and MTV Games have revealed that the second DLC album for The Beatles: Rock Band, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, will release the week of November 17. Tracks from the British sensation’s eighth studio album, as featured in the DLC release, include:
- “Fixing A Hole”
- “She’s Leaving Home”
- “Being For The Benefit of Mr. Kite!”
- “Within You Without You”
- “When I’m Sixty-Four”
- “Lovely Rita”
- “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)”
- “A Day In The Life.”
Xbox 360 and Wii owners can purchase the DLC on Tuesday, November 17. The tracks will be available as a complete Track Pack for 1080
($13.50) or 160 ($2.00) individually on Xbox 360; and 200 Wii Points ($2.00) per track on Wii. PlayStation 3 players get a few extra days to grow out their glorious mustaches when the pack lands on PSN on Thursday, November 19 for $13.49 (or $1.99 per track).
As previously revealed, Beatles fans can look forward to next month when 1965’s Rubber Soul will become available as the game’s third full-album DLC.
Beatles: Rock Band ‘Sgt. Pepper’s’ DLC debuts Nov. 17 originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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October 20th, 2009 at 03:00pm
Under Wii / Nintendo
For those of you ready to Carry That Weight and swing Maxwell’s Silver Hammer, Harmonix and MTV Games released the full “Abbey Road” album download today for The Beatles: Rock Band. Rather than simply release the songs, the DLC comes with new animations for the four British gents and, in some cases, new “dreamscapes” (the pseudo-psychedelic animations tripping our your friends while you play songs).
The trailer above offers a medley sampling of the whole album, should you not be acquainted with it. But then, we must ask, what planet are you from where “Abbey Road” is an unfamiliar album?
Here comes the trailer for Abbey Road from The Beatles: Rock Band (do do do) originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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October 20th, 2009 at 01:30pm
Under Wii / Nintendo
The Beatles: Rock Band’s initial U.S. tour at retail has proven boast-worthy for its promoters. Following two promising platform appearances in NPD’s top 10 software sales chart for September, MTV Games and Harmonix have declared B:RB “the top selling music video game in the U.S. for September.” The Beatles-only game (released September 9) outsold Guitar Hero 5 (released September 1) with 595,000 units to 499,000 units in total U.S. sales for the month, according to a statement released by the NPD*. Additionally, charity-driven purchases of the “All You Need Is Love” DLC track exceeded 100,000 downloads on Xbox 360 in September.
The makers of B:RB have also rubbed in a few seemingly noteworthy facts; namely, (1) U.S. purchases of GH5 in September were eligible for a free mail-away copy of Guitar Hero: Van Halen, and (2) GH5 is available on one additional platform, PS2. Of course, Van Halen isn’t exactly the American equivalent of The Beatles, and the PS2 is no longer the dominant platform to stage one’s acts upon. Still, despite the staggering odds stacked against its success, B:RB managed to capture the mindshare of U.S. gamers. (And we all know that Americans like to speak their minds with their monies.)
The sales de-feat must feel good for MTV Games and Harmonix — what with B:RB being burned in the sales competition with GH5 by the kingdom that birthed the band (see: Chart-Track UK September sales rankings posted after the break). What was it? Right: Guitar Hero 5 supposedly outsold The Beatles: Rock Band “2-to-1 in the UK.”
So, score a victory for B:RB in the battle of the bands fought in U.S. retail last month. But let’s not forget there’s a bigger, “World War of Rock” being waged, as well. And our wallets are the oft-unreported collateral damage.
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October 19th, 2009 at 09:10pm
Under DS
The new, lighter (in both price and weight!) PS3 continues to enjoy renewed sales in its second month beating out every console except for the invincible DS — and the PS3 got pretty close to that impossible victory. The PS3’s sales more than doubled in the last month! In fact, just about everything enjoyed a boost in September, with all the home consoles benefiting from recent price drops, and the PSP launching new hardware (NPD’s September sales period ran through October 3). The only “loser” is the DS, which fell in total sales, but still managed to sell more than anything else.
In software (see the chart after the break), unsurprisingly strong debuts took place for both games with Halo on the box and games with Mario on the box. In fact, strong is a bit of an understatement for ODST’s 1.52 million units sold. It’s not quite 3.3 million units, but for a presumably lower-cost spinoff using an existing engine, it’ll do.
In a weird bit of cross-platform fickleness, The Beatles: Rock Band debuted in the top 10 for Xbox and Wii, but not PS3 — while Batman: Arkham Asylum’s PS3 version made a second appearance in the top 10 to the exclusion of the Xbox.
-DS: 524K
29K (-5%)
-PS3: 492K
282K (+134%)
-Wii: 463K186K (+67%)
-360: 353K138K (+64%)
-PSP: 190K50K (+36%)
-PS2: 146K40K (+38%)
Check out the software sales chart after the break.
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September NPD: Obviously Destined to Sell Tons originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:10:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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October 7th, 2009 at 08:30pm
Under Xbox 360
We were just as perplexed as anyone when Guitar Hero 5 trounced The Beatles: Rock Band in the UK — where we hear the Fab Four is fairly popular still. Thankfully, Activision’s Guitar Hero business CEO, Rock ‘n’ Roll Dan Rosensweig, is there to explain it all. “The number one thing about Guitar Hero is that it’s fun as hell — it’s focused on the guitar, and the variety and value proposition — and the reviews are spectacular. So I guess we’re the only ones not surprised.”
Rosensweig went on to tell GamesIndustry.biz that “internally we always talked about the Fab Five – Guitar Hero 5 – was going to beat the Fab Four.” So, we’ve also discovered Activision’s real secret weapon that keeps it ahead of the competition: Hilarious wordplay.
Activision: Guitar Hero beat Beatles because it’s ‘fun as hell’ originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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September 18th, 2009 at 04:45pm
Under Xbox 360
Microsoft has announced that “All You Need is Love,” the first downloadable song for The Beatles: Rock Band, became the fastest-selling tune in the franchise’s history within the first two days of availability. We’d like to believe that the Xbox-exclusive track was entirely propelled by the spirit of philanthropy, with proceeds from sales (”tens of thousands of dollars,” Microsoft says) benefiting Doctors Without Borders, but its success probably comes from the fact that it’s “All You Need is Love.” By The Beatles.
A limited edition Beatles-themed Xbox 360, bearing artwork from the game’s introduction video, was also sold by Microsoft during an online charity auction. After ten days, the system took off for $17,300.
If you’ve yet to expand the legendary band’s in-game lineup or hope to gain entry in the on-going Beatles sweepstakes, keep in mind that revenue from “All You Need is Love” is still going to charity. All you need is 160.
‘All You Need is Love’ becomes fastest-selling Rock Band song originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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September 16th, 2009 at 09:00pm
Under Xbox 360
When Viacom’s CEO, Philippe Dauman, says that The Beatles: Rock Band sales have “exceeded internal expectations,” we have to imagine that he doesn’t have his top expectations men on the job. If we had been asked for our expectations of a game featuring the most popular band of all time, we would have simply pointed toward www.mythirdyacht.com and been on our way.
What’s actually a surprise from an IndustryGamers report on the matter is that even in our crummy economy, it’s the $250 version of the game — bundled with all the instruments — that’s performing so well that Dauman says he expects a sellout by November.
Beatles: Rock Band sales exceeding expectations, Viacom says originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 16 Sep 2009 20:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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