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Forums - Sales Discussion - Rock Band 3? Flop? The death of a genre?

Mr Puggsly on 01 November 2010

Lets bear in mind its a very high priced item with the new instruments.

A lot of people are likely waiting for the holidays.



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MonstaMack on 01 November 2010

Holiday legs is still yet to be seen.



It's just that simple.

badgenome on 01 November 2010

Couldn't happen to a nicer genre.



Shorty11857 on 01 November 2010

If the UK was anything like Ireland it's sales could be partly blamed on how impossible it was to find a copy. I got the keyboard on launch day, I had to go to every store in the city centre to find it

Sucks that it sold so little though, it's easily the best music game ever made, playing keyboards is so  much fun and such a great challenge



Boutros on 01 November 2010

And it stands at 94 on metacritic.

I blame Guitar Hero for being way too much milked.



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Uraeus on 01 November 2010

Well not surprised the PS3 numbers are so abysmal, considering how Harmonix kept favouring the Xbox with their previous installations and thus making sure no PS3 fanbase would grow around their games.

I got quite a few music games, bought GH: World Tour and Greatest Hits on release, got Rock Band and RB: Beatles for about 15GBP each long after release. While I do enjoy them and they are fun to play when you have people over (expect the neighbour complaining about the sound from the drums) there doesn't seem to be enough songs I want to play on the newer games, and especially the Beatles game felt like a rip-off, so many of the most famous songs missing, kinda ironic that there was a Penny Lane trophy but not song. So no RB3 for me (nor did I bother with latest GH game either), maybe if I see them in a bargain bin for a tenner next year I am game.



Squilliam on 01 November 2010

Wii doesn't sell core games confirmed!



Tease.

Severance on 01 November 2010
oniyide said:

@severance  IMHO that should have been done a while ago. I think at this point people just are not interested. The real guitar thing is great. I also love DJ Hero but Activison waited to long, that should have came out at the height of the genre's popularity, now good games will flop due to over saturation


or maybe people are waiting for the holidays?



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jarrod on 01 November 2010

Finally.  This is one (sub)genre I won't miss.



Shorty11857 on 01 November 2010
Uraeus said:

While I do enjoy them and they are fun to play when you have people over (expect the neighbour complaining about the sound from the drums) there doesn't seem to be enough songs I want to play on the newer games,


That's the beauty of rock band though because you can import your songs from your old games and all the DLC still works too; it's more about building a great library of music to play.