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Zucas on 17 June 2008
Kenology said:
EA and Harmonix have only themselves to blame for not releasing Rock Band on Wii last year as it did on every other console. Because of that, Rock Band Wii will never reach its full potential sales-wise.

 

I think a lot of that has to due with hesitation.  They probably wanted to see how GH3 would do first to see if it was worthwhile.  But man was that hesitation a bad move haha, cause GH3 has almost sold 3 million WW on Wii and now has lost some brand appeal to its competitor.  So it was a hesitation and its coming back to hurt them.  Luckily for them there are a lot of mainstream buyers on the Wii and Rock Band should still have decent sales if not platinum itself.  But Rock Band 2 will have to be a "full" version and really compete with GH4 if they want to compete on that platform.



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DMeisterJ on 17 June 2008

I thought I posted in here before.

Anyhoo, under 1 million.

The game's been out far too long, and the lack of DLC may turn off some people, as it's why Rock Band is more heralded than Guitar Hero.



alpha_dk on 17 June 2008

I can only hope the answer ends up being 'not enough to match their predictions'.

Beyond that, though, I am expecting ~50-75k week 1, with lifetime of about 250-300k. They are, after all, offering the same product as the PS2 version for (right now) $70 more...

(not even to mention the unarguable superiority in pretty much every way of Wii's version(s) of Guitar Hero)



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Kenology on 17 June 2008
Zucas said:
Kenology said:
EA and Harmonix have only themselves to blame for not releasing Rock Band on Wii last year as it did on every other console. Because of that, Rock Band Wii will never reach its full potential sales-wise.

 

I think a lot of that has to due with hesitation. They probably wanted to see how GH3 would do first to see if it was worthwhile. But man was that hesitation a bad move haha, cause GH3 has almost sold 3 million WW on Wii and now has lost some brand appeal to its competitor. So it was a hesitation and its coming back to hurt them. Luckily for them there are a lot of mainstream buyers on the Wii and Rock Band should still have decent sales if not platinum itself. But Rock Band 2 will have to be a "full" version and really compete with GH4 if they want to compete on that platform.

Agreed.  I do think Rockband will go platinum now that I just learned that it's going to get a full and competent localization in Japan.  I think it might even take off there.



FishyJoe on 17 June 2008

I don't know what to make of this but Walmart shows it as in stock:

http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=10086532

The only reason I checked is because Amazon turned of pre-ordering.



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StiC on 23 June 2008

Like many others im now waiting for GH4 simply bc my house cant support both franchises and right now gh has more to offer.

120k wk 1
600k lifetime



brute on 24 June 2008

i say 60k week 1 in america



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whacker41 on 24 June 2008

With GH3 already released on the wii with online, and GH4 coming up, i don't think that Rock band is going to reach it's full potential.

first week- 50k

Lifetime- 450k



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brute on 24 June 2008

^i think it will atleast pass 500k on wii



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Zucas on 28 June 2008

Well week 1 sales going to be up in a few days. I got to say I don't know how the sales are by ancedotal analysis, but given advertising of this game(every commercial break I swear I see it advertised) it should sell decent first week.