Can Rock Band Pull a Skate?

[mrstickball]

FishyJoe said:

mrstickball said:
It won't outsell Guitar Hero. But since it's a name brand now, it'll put up a huge fight. It'll be close - Rock Band is very well known where I live, and it'll amass a large bit of sales before GH4 launches.

Not only that, but GH fans are going to have to buy the drums and everything else this time around. It may hurt the game in the end vs. the fact that Rock Band already has a sizable userbase that owns the instruments already.

That didn't really prevent GHIII Wii from selling almost as much as the 360, even though every GHIII Wii was purchased with a guitar. And the install base of the Wii is much larger this year.

Very true, but we're talking about users shelling out another $170 for more add-ons. I look at Rock Band Wii, and think that *maybe* sales were hurt because it launched in the middle of a dead zone to do extrodinary numbers. Obviously, it's holding very well, but it's no where near what the X360 opened to.

Still though, I feel that Rock Band 2 will sell somewhere around 70% of Guitar Hero: WT, which I think will be impressive. And eventually, Harmonix will claim the rockin' throne due to their abundant DLC catalogue that Guitar Hero has nothing close to.