@mrstickaball

You haven't read my post properly. Every example you give are for games where deals were struck before release anywhere in the world. Unless I'm getting Rockband wrong it's finished, its out in US and MS is apparently thinking of delaying its European launch through money incentives.

Think about it, do we really want to see games get launches affected at the last minute in this way? Does this really serve us the consumers? At least an exclusive has the angle of making sure the game really exploits the platform, or a prearranged timed exclusive does the same for a period of time (UT3) - but this can do nothing of the kind.

As I said this isn't because its MS - I'd feel the same way if Sony did the same for a multi-platform game already released somewhere - for example if they'd paid to delay US/Europe launch of DMC4.

I just don't think its anything but a bad precedence.

It's not quite the same. Imagine if a 360 version of Haze, or even MGS4, was already finished, and Sony paid Ubisoft or Konami to simply not release the game on 360.  It'd be total BS.

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No one here has looked at European sales figures for Rhytmn-based games, have they?

Singstar Series - 5,500,000 Units Sold (5 Titles, PS2)
Guitar Hero Series - 2,410,000 Units Sold (GH 1, GH2 on 360, GH3 on all systems)

Thats quite a decent fanbase, no? Rock Band WILL be huge in Europe...Even with the ungodly price. Microsoft/EA could easily just package the game + Microphone for an Anti-Singstar game with DLC for about 35-40 Pounds and be at the same price of SingStar for PS3, and have a much better game.


And just for FYI: Singstar, atleast per play.co.uk states that downloads for Singstar are 0.99 pounds each ($2 USD), the same D*** price as DLC for Rock Band (actually, Rock Band is cheaper for the song packs), and Rock Band comes with twice the songs of Singstar. MS really better get on the ball about this one, and put out Rock Band with the Mic for under 40 Pounds, and it'd probably kill the heck out of SingStar!

F*CK YOU MICROSOFT!!!!! GET THE HELL OUT OF EUROPE YOU GREEDY BASTARDS!!!!! :P

Yeah because the other companies don't want your money as much, right?

" F*CK YOU MICROSOFT!!!!! GET THE HELL OUT OF EUROPE YOU GREEDY BASTARDS!!!!! :P"

Heh it amazes me when douchebags like this guy above make idiotic and ignorant comments regarding what is the innate nature of every multinational corporation.

Nah man... we europeans just like hating on Microsoft you see. :P

 Did you guys not notice the ":P" at the end?

 apparently they didnt lol!

Region	Japan	America	Others	Total
Total Sales	0.00m	2.19m	0.44m	2.63m
Week 1	n/a	658,671	5,671	664,342
Week 2	n/a	152,812	3,177	155,989
Week 3	n/a	80,964	59,827	140,791
Week 4	n/a	94,293	45,358	139,651
Week 5	n/a	81,408	38,151	119,559
Week 6	n/a	105,898	43,206	149,104
Week 7	n/a	144,936	48,647	193,583
Week 8	n/a	177,274	31,715	208,989
Week 9	n/a	100,448	16,455	116,903
Week 10	n/a	78,936	10,395	89,331

guitar hero 3 on 360 sold 2.63 copies.

others only contributed 0.44m of those copies. guitar hero is only succesful because of america. i highly doubt rockband is going to be more accepted over here.