@Kuro

Doesn't look like it to me... Christmas boosts are relative towhat the normal sales are, so GHIII looks to have had an average boost to me.

It was selling ~30k per week, and it went up to about 80-90k during the holidays.

Rockband was selling about 15k per week, and they you can see in week 22 the price cut happened, because that week jumped to 50k, and it increase to over 100k.





The main reasoning I think is that you could buy RB1 and 2 for so cheap, so any new customers that were planning to buy RB2 but missed RB1 because it was gimped, went and bought it anyway.

That couldn't be done with GHIII even if it had a similar price cut, because GHIII only comes with a guitar, so you would need the extra instruments anyway.

@zexen_lowe:

Although the graphics/effects on the charts look better, the characters look a lot less polished and have a lot slower framerate in RB2 than in GH:WT.

Interface? eh, Navigating the menu is definitely easier in GH:WT for me. "Band leader" button makes it easier, pressing Green/Start can be exchanged in menus, and I don't like wasting star power/overdrive to "save" the other band member. Also, I like that you can't fail one person at a time. If one guy it sucking it up, the other 3 can play well enough so he doesn't fail the whole band. Also, shared star-power is better for me than "saving". As I pointed out, It's all about preferences. But I don't even notice loading differences, but you're probably right.

They're making a Beatles game, so I don't really care what they did in the past.

You hear me Harmonix? No amount of dead hookers or sub-prime mortgages can deter me from loving you.

I always wondered why you were called famousringo.

About the graphics, I don't care, I don't look at the videos. I have the PS2 version, that tells you something. And RB's menu is definitely easier to navigate, it allows much better sorting of songs. For example, I am a classic and progressive rock fan, and I like music from pre-90s. RB allows me to find that in two presses of the button, in GH I have to scroll the whole songlist. Plus RB2 dispalys the album art and gives a nice chart of the difficulty for every instrument.

About the notes, it's preference, I like the RB bars, you may like the GH circles, it all boils down to what you feel more suitable. Both are OK, but I like the RB chart more.

And yes, in the PS2 version load times are a HUGE difference, GHWT takes more than a minute to load a song, RB2 loads in 5-10 seconds. That's a deciding factor for me.

The songlist is obvious preference, I only found 5-10 songs that are worth playing in GHWT (Hotel California, Band on the Run, Up Around the Bend, About a Girl, The Joker, Go Your Own Way and a couple more, there are far too many song from current bands -that I don't like-). On the other hand, RB2's catalog is much better for me, it has easily twice the songs I want to play

I forgot to add. I HATE YOU HARMONIX, you make RB: The Beatles, a game that will be one of the best games ever and you DON'T RELEASE IT FOR PS2

The PS2 is dieing... they have to move on sometime.
Won't the instruments work for PS3 too? (you have a PS3 right?)

^PS2 instruments work with PS3.

No, I don't have any next gen console. And they are releasing the next track pack for PS2, what could they hurt to make a quick port from the Wii version (I'm not asking for it to be even polished, I just want to play the 45 Beatles songs)

^^^ Well... There's always GuitarZero or FretsOnFire... i guess...

Yeah, if there's no PS2 version I'll wait for all the songs to be converted (they did it with the previous Rock Bands, so I guess they'll do it again), buy a ps2-to-pc adaptor and play there. Better than nothing, I guess