vizunary said:
Are these estimated prices with all 4 instruments included? That is a good deal, b/c a guitar alone cost $60, bass would be the same, drums... maybe $40 and at least $20(low) for a half ass mic(which is really the only fuctional item in the group), not to mention the s/w. A guy I work with and also my girlfriend are guitar hero nuts, and both REALLY want this game too, which is cool, I can get her to pay for rock band ;) |
My estimate is based on all four insruments. Yes guitars alone are $60, but with GHII the guitar was only $30 added onto the normal game price. They are planning on improving the quality and numbers of features on the guitar, so that would add cost... But given the success of the entire GH franchise, I'm sure they have enough confidence to manufacture on a scale large enough to produce very cheaply. I wouldn't be surprised if they were actually manufacturing the guitars for under $10. Add a bit more because they are wireless. The microphone also could be made very cheap. The drums... They could be awesome!!! Word is the drums are only four buttons/pads so they would be cheaper to produce then the guitar. I'm curious as to the graphics they will be putting on the instruments. Either way, I'm always surprised at how cheap you can manufacture in asia.
I think that I will buy the game no matter what the cost within reason, but I really see that $189.99 as a sweet spot. 149.99 would be awesome and I wouldn't rule that out, but it would be impressive to pull that off. I don't think that they will want to sell the instuments seperately. At least I don't think that game stores will want to cary all of those SKU's for one single game. You can actually buy GHII for the 360 without a guitar, but I've yet to see on in stores. I've also yet to see a guitar in stores, and until I heard about rock band, I wanted one. Now I'll wait.
