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During my lunch break I went to get rockband 2. I work inside the biggest shopping area in downtown Toronto (Eatons center for the locals) and there is every type of store in a 5 kilometer radius.

I went to best buy first - rockband 2 sold out. They had lots of Too Human tho... :)

Went to eb next - sold out.

Went to future shop - got it!

Anywho, the fact that it is sold out in 2 of the biggest game stores around should indicate the game is meeting or exceding sales expectations.

Does anyone else, who possibly works in a game store... see that this game selling well?

 



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Anecdotal I know...

But I went to Gamestop yesterday and asked one of my friends there and he said that it had been selling "ok". They did sell out sunday but he said they didn't receive a whole lot of copies either. There were 2 copies left when I got there, the store got 4 in that Monday morning. He said there will probably be a bigger retail push when the bundles come out for all the systems in October. This is one of the biggest store in the district as well.

I'm a RB fan but I don't think sales will that stellar right out the gate. It'll have some legs and a bigger showing when the other versions get released along with the bundles.



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It was sold out at my local target, walmart, fye, and blockbuster though thank goodness gamestop had some.



actually i heard it hasnt been selling well , i went to the gamestop around the corner and they still had plenty!
maybe ppl have guitar hero and old rock ban
maybe ppl are finnaly getting bored of this shit
but it will sell good eventualy ...it will have good legs



hatmoza 2.0 said:
actually i heard it hasnt been selling well , i went to the gamestop around the corner and they still had plenty!
maybe ppl have guitar hero and old rock ban
maybe ppl are finnaly getting bored of this shit
but it will sell good eventualy ...it will have good legs

I guess we will see when the numbers get posted. It really depends on the size of the shipment that was sent out. I am however seeing it do 300K+ first week just judging by the buzz and circle of friends attach rate... :)

 



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I am not sure, but I do not think there were that many people on the leaderboards.



It will sell pretty good.



disolitude said:

During my lunch break I went to get rockband 2. I work inside the biggest shopping area in downtown Toronto (Eatons center for the locals) and there is every type of store in a 5 kilometer radius.

I went to best buy first - rockband 2 sold out. They had lots of Too Human tho... :)

Went to eb next - sold out.

Went to future shop - got it!

Anywho, the fact that it is sold out in 2 of the biggest game stores around should indicate the game is meeting or exceding sales expectations.

Does anyone else, who possibly works in a game store... see that this game selling well?

 

disolitude -

If you go by MGC extrapolations (the website I get XBLA data from), Rock Band 2 is slated to sell anywhere from 400,000-500,000 units this week in North America.

This is far more than anecdotal. This is fact: Rock Band 2 has more players this week than Grand Theft Auto IV according to MGC. Very few games get to wedge themselves in the top-5 very quickly, but Rock Band 2 has. I would be shocked if it sold below 350,000 units. And lets not forget: the bundle isn't even out yet. RB2 could sell well over 1m copies before the bundles launch for the other systems.



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Stickball, can you give me a link to that page. I went to their site and could not locate the list that you speak of.



http://www.mygamercard.net/leaderboard.php

Look at their Top 5.



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