Beatles Rock Band has only sold "over 1 million units worldwide to date."

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Rock Band publisher MTV Games confirmed to Gamasutra that Boston-based Harmonix laid off 39 workers, or 13 percent of total staff on Thursday, a move "unrelated" to any supposed lagging sales of the studio's product line, a representative for the company said.

The rep for Harmonix and its owner MTV Games said that Harmonix's most recent release in association with EA Partners, The Beatles: Rock Band in particular is doing just fine at retail, with sales of "over 1 million units worldwide to date." The title launched on 9/9/09.

That's pathetically low for a game that was supposed to be huge. Didn't they shell out eight figures just to acquire the license? And I hope he's referring to "sold to customer" figures...

And I guess this means the Beatles is being overtracked here. Unless the quote refers to solely the Wii version, which doesn't seem to be the case.