Predict the The Beatles: Rock Band Sales

[Fennz]

I thought this'll be fun. Predict the sales of the Beatles: Rock Band. I usually look on vgchartz.com to see the sales of Rock Band and other games. Who knows how accurate they actually are, but here's the sales of Rock Band 1 and 2. These are to show what the Rock Band sales are and used to help predict the Beatles.

Note: Not counting PS2 sales because The Beatles game is not coming out for it.

Rock Band 1

360: 2.32 million
PS3: .84 million
Wii: 1.32 million

Total: 4.48 million

Rock Band 2

360: 1.61 million
PS3: .59 million
Wii: .58 million

Total: 2.78 million

[Flawless]

2-3

[DookieMan]

2-3. Hopefully I'm wrong and will be more.

[Fuelie79]

What's with all the threads about sales today? It's almost the 4th of July, they should be about America!

[Relauby]

Honestly, I just clicked the largest number without thinking :p

[OrdealByFire]

probably 1-2.

for the bundle.

too ****ing expensive and this thread fails.

[GloiGloi]

What were the figure for the GH games for comparison?
Are these US or worldwide sales?

[princeofcups]

I'll be very surprised if it breaks a million.

[CCDaDon]

I'll be very surprised if it breaks a million.

Really? I'll be surprised if this doesn't sell more than 5 Million across all consoles. You guys really underestimate the bigness of the Beatles, so much it just makes my head hurt.

[acidicthought8]

I'm in the 5mil+ club. I don't see how this game can fail with all the Beatles fans, and even those who aren't, that are getting this game.

[n4sc4r]

I went with 1-2 million. I think it'll be a great game, but there's no way I can see it selling well. I'm sorry. There's just something about it to me.

[GloiGloi]

I think having 5 million+ as the top figure on the chart is being seriously conservative.

[Fennz]

I think having 5 million+ as the top figure on the chart is being seriously conservative.

Considering that Rock Band 1 hasn't even sold over 5 million, and single Band oriented games don't sell as well as the main games, that's pretty generous. Though it is the Beatles...

[cutmaclass]

At least three million, if not four. The Beatles have tremendous commercial value :/

[Skittles]

0.9-3.2 mil
because GH has saturated the market by releasing a number of titles, causing people to lose interest in music games. Not only that but it will most likely be overshadowed by the release of GH5, and we all know those 12 year olds, who think their deep because they listen to Nickelback and Coldplay, cant get enough of it.

[GloiGloi]

0.9-3.2 mil
Not only that but it will most likely be overshadowed by the release of GH5, and we all know those 12 year olds, who think their deep because they listen to Nickelback and Coldplay, cant get enough of it.

12 year olds aren't the ones with the money, going out buying Xmas presents for the family.

[IErrantVentureI]

I think we'll be surprised with all the Bealtes fans out there.

[RMThompson]

I'll be very surprised if it breaks a million.

Interesting. I'll be surprised if it doesn't outsell Rock Band 2.

[princeofcups]

Interesting. I'll be surprised if it doesn't outsell Rock Band 2.

RB3 would have sold approximately as many copies as RB2, if the RB1 to RB2 sales are any indication. There are a lot of RB2 players who are not buying the Beatles game. Is that number smaller than the number of people new to the game? Show me the excitement among non-gaming Beatles fans, and I'll believe you. I can't find it. I found a few sites where they mentioned the appearance of McCartney and Ringo at some gaming convention, but not any all abuzz about buying plastic gaming instruments.

[Sikaris]

RB3 would have sold approximately as many copies as RB2, if the RB1 to RB2 sales are any indication. There are a lot of RB2 players who are not buying the Beatles game. Is that number smaller than the number of people new to the game? Show me the excitement among non-gaming Beatles fans, and I'll believe you. I can't find it.

Any fan that I've shown the trailer to is pretty psyched. I'm sure as September nears they're gonna be ramping up the advertising.

[bootz0rs]

Im still suprised someone hasn't used the usual "but teh scoreheroo types wont buy teh gaem!1!" argument yet.

[CCDaDon]

RB3 would have sold approximately as many copies as RB2, if the RB1 to RB2 sales are any indication. There are a lot of RB2 players who are not buying the Beatles game. Is that number smaller than the number of people new to the game? Show me the excitement among non-gaming Beatles fans, and I'll believe you. I can't find it. I found a few sites where they mentioned the appearance of McCartney and Ringo at some gaming convention, but not any all abuzz about buying plastic gaming instruments.

My Mom. I wouldn't get the game if she wasn't making me, but she is forcing me with death.

[ScottWAR]

I think a lot of people are forgetting an important aspect. The Beatles were most popular a generation before me(I am 40). My generation and the next like the Beatles, but for the most part are no where near as obsessive as the generation before me was.

MY generation is the video game generation. We started the video game craze with the Atari 2600 early on,..and then later with the NES, Genesis, SNES,...etc. The generation BEFORE me,...most of them want nothing to do with video games. I think the sales of this game are going to reflect this.

I hate tyo say it but I dont think the Beatles will sale as well as GH:Metallica. I know I am going to hear about it for that remark so let it fly.........................

[Wave57]

I said 5 million plus.
Several reasons why.
1. Most Beatles fans(like myself) will buy this game. Like 80-90% Beatles fans.
2. Some crazy Beatles fans who collect merchandise will buy this to add to their collection.
3. Since Across the Universe has been released kids of the new age have started to become fans.
4. Everyone has atleast in one point in their life have heard of The Beatles.
5.There are kids of the new age like myself who have been fans for years, and has grown to like The Beatles without Across the Universe or the Love album.
6. It's Rock Band people will buy it.
7. Contrary to popular belief there will be VERY challenging songs on that game, like Revolution and Everbodies Got Something to Hide Except for me and my Monkey.(There are more challenging songs to that list)

Those are the reasons why The Beatles Rock Band will SKYROCKET in Sales.

[GloiGloi]

I can see parents thinking "My teenagers love those music games but they are driving me mad deafening me with heavy metal for hours on end, I'm going to get them the Beatles game for Xmas then they can play that and I won't get a migraine!" :D:D

[princeofcups]

My Mom. I wouldn't get the game if she wasn't making me, but she is forcing me with death.

OK, I take everything back. I would never want to argue with your Mom! Not if she's threatening people with death. :-)

[princeofcups]

I said 5 million plus.
Several reasons why.
1. Most Beatles fans(like myself) will buy this game. Like 80-90% Beatles fans.


Prove it to me. Show me 5 links for Beatles Fans sites (that are NOT gaming related sites or blogs) that are talking about this wonderful new Beatles product that they will all have to buy. Show me the forums posts. Show me the love. If you can do that, I will admit that I am wrong.

[GloiGloi]

Prove it to me. Show me 5 links for Beatles Fans sites (that are NOT gaming related sites or blogs) that are talking about this wonderful new Beatles product that they will all have to buy. Show me the forums posts. Show me the love. If you can do that, I will admit that I am wrong.

here's a couple, someone else can do some other sites.
http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showthread.php?t=176534
http://www.beatlelinks.net/forums/showthread.php?t=37496&page=3
http://dsulpy.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=beatleday&action=display&thread=3665
http://macca.devstars.eu/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=69877

[princeofcups]

here's a couple, someone else can do some other sites.
http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showthread.php?t=176534
http://www.beatlelinks.net/forums/showthread.php?t=37496&page=3
http://dsulpy.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=beatleday&action=display&thread=3665

Interesting. The first one has some game-hate, but not a lot. The first two have a lot of people talking about which console to buy to play the game, so they would be new to gaming. The third one requires a login. OK, this is looking better for the optimists. Does anyone have any other such sites? I still need 3 more to be convinced. :-)

[T-Hybrid]

YAY! Another thread about if the Beatles game will or won't sell well! I love fads!

[princeofcups]

YAY! Another thread about if the Beatles game will or won't sell well! I love fads!

Hey, we're actually getting some data this time.

[SatansBestBuddy]

I would be shocked, SHOCKED, I say, if The Beatles didn't sell at least 3 million copies... per platform... per country.... per planet... without any advertising at all...

Seriously, if this isn't the highest selling game of this generation, then somebody in the marketing department needs to be fired... out of a cannon... into the sun. (okay, I'll stop that now :P)

[PCTraitor]

I'm hoping the Beatles game does something to combat what apparently GH is trying to do, which is kill the genre. If any band can pull in non-gamers to refresh the pool of dwindling rhythm gamers it's this one. We aren't actually who Harmonix is shooting for, don't be surprised if they start advertising this one on channels other than the typical G4, Spike and Comedy Central, but instead put it on the major networks at prime time.

[Gryffindor]

Recession + high bundle/instrument price + only 45 songs + only Beatles tracks + no export/import + rhythm game over saturation = lower sales than RB2.

For a game this short many are going to rent rather than buy.

[chrth_rb]

Recession + high bundle/instrument price + only 45 songs + only Beatles tracks + no export/import + rhythm game over saturation = lower sales than RB2.

For a game this short many are going to rent rather than buy.

For the target market of this game, "only 45 songs + no export/import + rhythm game over saturation" doesn't apply.

[Gryffindor]

For the target market of this game, "only 45 songs + no export/import + rhythm game over saturation" doesn't apply.

The target audience would have to be those in my husband's age group (50+). I have tried and tried to get him to play RB and he refuses stating that the screens are too confusing even on easy. My brothers are also in this age group and same story - they refuse to even try.

Most video games have a much lower demographic than what they're shooting for. I'm almost 42 and the Beatles were before my time. My kids (13 & 20) could care less about them. The two other people in my band (17 & 25) have both said they have no interest in the game.

I know many of you are excited for this game and I think that's great. I just hope there's a RB3 in production for release in early 2010.

[Yakalot]

If there's a mode that allows you to just watch the virtual Beatles play their songs without you doing anything, it will sell more than 3 mil, but I'm putting my bet in the 2-3 mil range.

[CCDaDon]

If there's a mode that allows you to just watch the virtual Beatles play their songs without you doing anything, it will sell more than 3 mil, but I'm putting my bet in the 2-3 mil range.

The people who would actually care about that type of mode, and don't want to go through all of the trouble of No fail plus performance mode aren't even going to do that much research of modes in the game before buying. I seriously doubt a jukebox mode of any kind would do anything to sales.

[OSTATEKING7]

I'll be very surprised if it breaks a million.


This :/

[PCTraitor]

The target audience would have to be those in my husband's age group (50+). I have tried and tried to get him to play RB and he refuses stating that the screens are too confusing even on easy. My brothers are also in this age group and same story - they refuse to even try.

Most video games have a much lower demographic than what they're shooting for. I'm almost 42 and the Beatles were before my time. My kids (13 & 20) could care less about them. The two other people in my band (17 & 25) have both said they have no interest in the game.

I know many of you are excited for this game and I think that's great. I just hope there's a RB3 in production for release in early 2010.

Anyone who says "could care less" when they mean couldn't care less is confused and their opinion shouldn't be taken seriously.

Did you know that Kurt Cobain worshipped John Lennon? Whenever Butch Vig wanted Kurt to do something he didn't want to do in the studio he would say "John Lennon did it" and then Kurt would do it.

The Beatles are going to go a long way in convincing bands that these types of games are not fluff. This could lead to better DLC and more respect from the musical community.

[PCTraitor]

A lot of people are forgetting that this game is coming with a worldwide Beatles push. All the albums are being rereleased as is much other Beatles related stuff. They are going to try for a huge Beatles revival. It worked pretty well last time when the Anthology was released. This seems to be an attempt at something even bigger. We all know that well done marketing hype can sell large quantities of crap, so considering this game doesn't look like crap I think we can expect at least numbers that no one will complain about.

[nx s1c4r1o]

I thought this'll be fun. Predict the sales of the Beatles: Rock Band. I usually look on vgchartz.com to see the sales of Rock Band and other games. Who knows how accurate they actually are, but here's the sales of Rock Band 1 and 2. These are to show what the Rock Band sales are and used to help predict the Beatles.

Note: Not counting PS2 sales because The Beatles game is not coming out for it.

Rock Band 1

360: 2.32 million
PS3: .84 million
Wii: 1.32 million

Total: 4.48 million

Rock Band 2

360: 1.61 million
PS3: .59 million
Wii: .58 million

Total: 2.78 million

if neither rb broke 5, then there's now way this one is going over 2m

[nx s1c4r1o]

I know many of you are excited for this game and I think that's great. I just hope there's a RB3 in production for release in early 2010.

with what songs? they're running out already(of good ones anyway)

[princeofcups]

with what songs? they're running out already(of good ones anyway)

You have to be joking, right? I hope you are joking.

[XinZ]

I smell a flop, with less than a million.

[Sportzter]

I think it will sell moderately in the states and famously in the UK and Austrailia (if it get there)

[TVRobot]

Despite me liking the Beatles alot and them probably being the best candidate for a game like this (and in my opinion the most deserving), I have to say I dont think its going to sell well at all. It could just be because the majority of people in my age group (15-ish) just think metal (particularly Metallica), rap, (and techno (oddly enough)) are the greatest things in the world and all other genres of music are just fail-sauce. I dont know about all of you older peoples but sadly there are not really too many young people that appreciate the Beatles.


with what songs? they're running out already(of good ones anyway)

And that.... I didnt see that. thats just a terrible thing to say. Theres loads of great music out there that isnt on RB yet.

[mva5580]

GHIII sold nearly 15 million copies across all the platforms it was released on, which is beyond ridiculous. And I think that's the worst version of these games.

GHIV has sold around 7.3 million. GH Aerosmith is right under 3 million. GH Metallica is slightly over a million.

RB1 sold a little over 5 million. RB2 is at 3 million. And the AC/DC track pack sold about 300k, although it's hardly even worth counting as you could only buy it at Wal-Mart.

The #'s are all over the place so it's hard to predict where The Beatles will land. It's the most popular band of all time and what's important to consider is that's it's getting a world wide release on the same day. I think that will be significant. There's going to be ridiculous marketing at work here, I mean every single store flyer that previous weekend is going to be littered with The Beatles; whether it's the Rock Band game or the CD remasters. It will be hard to not have them on the mind come 9/9/09.

And while there are people holding out, saying they won't buy it because of the lack of export feature, etc, I think we all know that come 9/9, some of these people are going to walk in to a store, see the game on the shelf, see people playing those kick-ass instruments, and they'll buy it. And that's just the "hardcore" community. I would expect this game to sell steadily through Christmas, and like I said it'll be marketed everywhere.

Considering how underwhelming the set list is (so far) for GH5, I think more and more that game is not going to do much. People have been there, they've done that.

My expectation is for it to be around the sales of GH: Aerosmith. Whether that means a little under 3 million or a little over, I don't know. But if it sells, say, in the range of where GH: Metallica is at right now, I would be VERY surprised. Shocked I would say. This is........The Beatles. And I think a lot of the skeptics on this board are going to find that out in a few months. The game WILL sell. It's just a matter of how much.

[mercury11]

A lot of people are forgetting that this game is coming with a worldwide Beatles push. All the albums are being rereleased as is much other Beatles related stuff. They are going to try for a huge Beatles revival. It worked pretty well last time when the Anthology was released. This seems to be an attempt at something even bigger. We all know that well done marketing hype can sell large quantities of crap, so considering this game doesn't look like crap I think we can expect at least numbers that no one will complain about.

Why would they need a revival to sell more albums? the commercialization continues...

[kraken613]

Despite me liking the Beatles alot and them probably being the best candidate for a game like this (and in my opinion the most deserving), I have to say I dont think its going to sell well at all. It could just be because the majority of people in my age group (15-ish) just think metal (particularly Metallica), rap, (and techno (oddly enough)) are the greatest things in the world and all other genres of music are just fail-sauce. I dont know about all of you older peoples but sadly there are not really too many young people that appreciate the Beatles.



Somewhere there was something posted that online The Beatles are the most mentioned or discussed. And it was in the 17-30 age range I think was the highest. I can't remember where it was posted. I know a lot of people who like The Beatles my age(16), but a lot don't. I don't understand why people like some of the music that exists today and don't enjoy the real classics.

[Leafs4Life84]

I have a feeling RB Beatles will be huge. There are so many fans of the beatles plus this game will get people who never bothered with Rock Band into the game.

[CaptainKicker]

Actually, this thread is very fun to read. Seems like some made a good predicition, and other... not so much.

[MonkeyGoneToHeaven]

I predict it will sell one hundred billion trillion copies and every single Beatles song and solo song will be released for DLC

[BubbleBobble]

with the price of the bundle for PS3 and XBOX being 125 right now, it should be selling more copies I would think :(