Beatles Rock Band has only sold "over 1 million units worldwide to date."

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noname2200 on 10 December 2009

http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=26467&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+GamasutraNews+(Gamasutra+News)&utm_content=FaceBook

Rock Band publisher MTV Games confirmed to Gamasutra that Boston-based Harmonix laid off 39 workers, or 13 percent of total staff on Thursday, a move "unrelated" to any supposed lagging sales of the studio's product line, a representative for the company said.

The rep for Harmonix and its owner MTV Games said that Harmonix's most recent release in association with EA Partners, The Beatles: Rock Band in particular is doing just fine at retail, with sales of "over 1 million units worldwide to date." The title launched on 9/9/09.

That's pathetically low for a game that was supposed to be huge. Didn't they shell out eight figures just to acquire the license? And I hope he's referring to "sold to customer" figures...

And I guess this means the Beatles is being overtracked here. Unless the quote refers to solely the Wii version, which doesn't seem to be the case.

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-Newcloud- on 10 December 2009

prof that rock band and guitar hero are getting boring maybe?

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noname2200 on 10 December 2009

But they're The Beatles!

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MontanaHatchet on 10 December 2009

If one of them released this back in 2007 or 2008, this game actually could have been huge. Now, even The Beatles can't recapture the lost success of rhythm games. I suppose people don't want to buy games that cost as much as a new console during a global recession. Priorities, and whatnot. Also, this doesn't indicate that the game is overtracked at all.

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-Newcloud- on 10 December 2009

lol i think buying there greatest hits would be much cheaper

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noname2200 on 10 December 2009

MontanaHatchet said:
If one of them released this back in 2007 or 2008, this game actually could have been huge. Now, even The Beatles can't recapture the lost success of rhythm games. I suppose people don't want to buy games that cost as much as a new console during a global recession. Priorities, and whatnot. Also, this doesn't indicate that the game is overtracked at all.

http://vgchartz.com/games/index.php?name=beatles&keyword=&console=&region=All&developer=&publisher=&genre=&boxart=Both&results=50&order=Hits

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noname2200 said:

MontanaHatchet said:
If one of them released this back in 2007 or 2008, this game actually could have been huge. Now, even The Beatles can't recapture the lost success of rhythm games. I suppose people don't want to buy games that cost as much as a new console during a global recession. Priorities, and whatnot. Also, this doesn't indicate that the game is overtracked at all.

http://vgchartz.com/games/index.php?name=beatles&keyword=&console=&region=All&developer=&publisher=&genre=&boxart=Both&results=50&order=Hits

Yup, well, it's definitely over 1 million worldwide then!

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noname2200 on 10 December 2009

MontanaHatchet said:

noname2200 said:

MontanaHatchet said:
If one of them released this back in 2007 or 2008, this game actually could have been huge. Now, even The Beatles can't recapture the lost success of rhythm games. I suppose people don't want to buy games that cost as much as a new console during a global recession. Priorities, and whatnot. Also, this doesn't indicate that the game is overtracked at all.

http://vgchartz.com/games/index.php?name=beatles&keyword=&console=&region=All&developer=&publisher=&genre=&boxart=Both&results=50&order=Hits

Yup, well, it's definitely over 1 million worldwide then!

But I...that's...you know full well...

Ooooh...