Very surprised that RBWii did so well. Congrats to EA.

I just hope that when RB2 comes out for Wii, it includes the modes the 360 version has. On one hand, I'm glad Wii owners bought so many units of a near-revolutionary game, but on the other, feel bad that so many bought an inferior product.

Funny story about Guitar Hero: On Tour..

My co-workers were making fun of how awful the UI is for GH:OT, but I remarked that regardless of what they thought, it'd sell a million copies. Looks like I was right :-p

1+ to all the guys that were close especially mesoteto, pichu and StiC

Edit: missed kingofwale he was pretty close too

Rock Band Wii First Week: 131k
Rock Band 360 First Week: 187k

Pretty good considering the (lack of) quality of the (gimped) Wii port.

Wooh I am back gentlemen. Sorry that I wasn't able to contribute on the day the sales numbers were released. But that's another story of injustice.

Congradulations to King of Wale mesoteto. And really anyone who was within 10-20k.

Let's discuss why it hit 130k first week when so many predicted it wouldn't. I made numerous arguements within the week of the release suggesting, that maybe our predictions were too low due to advertising and brandname. So why is that absolutely correct? First of all the main arguement against big opneing sales by people on here was lack of quality. However we are forgetting the game didn't lack quality, just features. It's still a game that works very well. It's not like it's a bad game.

Secondly we are simply thinking this game to be only for the hardcores. When indeed the game is nonetheless for everyone. It sold well on its first week because of a large amount of advertising. Trust me this game was advertised very very well for the Wii release. I mean spots in the NBA Finals, on almost every main channel including ESPN, Cartoon Network/Adult Swim, Nickolodeon, VH1, Spike, the regular channels, F/X, ect. I mean it got the advertising of a game that we all wished Boom Blox and No More Heroes would have got. thus with that advertising and that brand appeal(a GH like game is probably how it seems) there is no way the title could have sold bad on its first week. NOT A CHANCE.

Finally we need to remember one thing. Most of the people that bought this game bought it off the advertising and hype. Meaning they didn't go online to check features and see if it was a rip-off or not. They didn't compare or things like that. They simply watched the commercial or walked into a store one day and saw it and picked it up. These are how your every now and then gamers buy. They buy the popular brands, and that's what the Wii section did.

Now legs of this title is totally different but seeing that the advertising has continued and sales seem to be stagnant, I doubt we'll see this game simply fade into oblifion. Gold status confirmed, and depending on when Rock Band 2 releases, could go platinum itself. I have no idea how much GH: WT will hurt it, but I don't think Aerosmith with take anything away from it.

Good predicting guys and keep up the good work.

First Week - ~80,000
Lifetime - ~2 million

600k because many people will wait for Rock Band 2 or Guitar Hero World Tour

it seems as though it sold much more than many predicted. It should very well reach 1 mil.

Either a joke or EPIC FAIL as week 1 sales are already in and it sold higher than your estimate.

I don't think it will reach 1 mil. I'm guessing that the people who were excited about it / held off for the Wii version bought it. I imagine most others either A) already own it for PS3 or XB360 and/or B) will just wait for the expected to be superior Guitar Hero World Tour (Like Me!)