beatles because It is such a household name. also because guitar hero has released so many games at this point it just isn't that popular.

Beatles has the edge on the Wii since its a family console, but GH5 wins in Europe because of name recognition.

Beatles > Guitar Hero in name recognition. In a very big way.

          I think this years game of The Beatles: Rock Band is going to be better for Harmonix and will (hopefully) sell more than Guitar Hero 5. My opinion is that the Guitar Hero brand has been over used this entire year and has loss its former glory since GH3. It only sold the same amount as The Beatles in its opening week due to it selling to their hardcore fan base and with the extra copy of Van Halen but The Beatles: Rock Band is different. The Beatles: Rock Band will continue to sell year round just because of the band its associated with and is a full Rock Band experiance built from the ground up unlike other band games like GH Aerosmith or Metallica. It is also friendly enough to be selling well to casual players for the Wii just because of its colorful, trippy graphics. It's outselling GH5 for the Wii 2-1 and even though you said that Rock Band is a weaker brand in Europe, it will eventually catch up with many older, Europeans who are in their late 40's/ early 50's, when the marketing catches up, will just give them a taste of playing and listening to their favorite, most popular music band back in the 1960's(and all time) and relieving their experiance of the band.

          The Beatles will keep selling year round to younger, family Wii players  and to older, Europeans which gives the game a broader user base. And with a collectors CD coming out with the best music from The Beatles that came out as the same day the game came it, it will also appeal to a new generation of listeners and give this game a try with it also selling to the usual hardcore Rock Band players. Hopefully, all of this can start The Beatles revolution again 

There are several interesting posts/views so far in this thread.  You might have seen it but if not, today an article for my most recent Change in Sales Game of the Day went up.  From now on, a follow up article will be posted after the "...of the Day" sales threads, and I will be including the results from the poll as well as some of what I think are the best reasoned arguments from the thread.  So I would really like to get more people’s opinions and votes.

So some of these have already been talked about but what are your opinions on...

- What it means for the Beatles Rock Band that the Guitar Hero band centric games were fairly frontloaded.

- That even with The Beatles name attached to Rock Band, the first week of Guitar Hero 5 was bigger in Europe/Others than Rock Band.

- How much will the PS2 version of Guitar Hero 5 sell (no PS2 version of Rock Band) and could that be enough to make a difference between the two games.

- Does Guitar Hero 5's steep second week drop in the America's mean that the game will have shorter legs than other main line entries in the franchise?

And any other logic/reasoning you might have for one game selling more than the other.

Anybody else have any thoughts/opinions? I'm going to start the article write up in a few hours and would really like some more peoples incite.