Full Beatles DLC Schedule Prediction/Fantasy

[yaniv297]

So like most of you, I was wondering how the Beatles DLC is going to work... so I wrote down this little list of how I think/hope it might work. I put little 6/7-packs between the officially announced albums, although I don't really expect that to happen. I used fridays for the date because it's convenient, and that's when DLC is announced. I invented dates for Rubber Soul & Pepper. I didn't include the entire discography, but most of it - left some early tracks out.

Here it is:

02/10/09
Ed Sullivan Pack:
This Boy
She Loves You
From Me To You
Till There Was You

Singles:
The Ballad of John and Yoko
Old Brown Shoe

20/10
ABBEY ROAD RELEASE

6/11
Shea Stadium Pack:
Help!
I'm Down
She's a Woman
We Can Work It Out

Yellow Submarine Pack:
All Together Now
It's All Too Much
Only a Northen Song

20/11
SGT. PEPPER RELEASE

4/12
Budokan Pack:
Rain
She Said, She Said
Got to Get You Into My Life
I Want to Tell You

Singles:
Hey Jude
Lady Madonna
The Inner Light

27/12
RUBBER SOUL RELEASE

08/01
Let It Be Pack
Two Of Us
Let It Be
The Long and Winding Road
Across The Universe
One After 909 (Rooftop)
For You Blue(Rooftop)

EARLY YEARS 14-PACK:
29/01

Cavern:
Please Please Me
Anna
P.S. I Love You

Sullivan:
It Won't Be Long
Roll Over Beethoven
I Should Have Known Better
All My Loving
If I Fell
And I Love Her
Things We Said Today

Shea Stadium:
No Reply
Baby's In Black
Rock and Roll Music
I Don't Want To Spoil the Party

19/02
The Rest of Revolver:
Eleanor Rigby
I'm Only Sleeping
Love You To
Here There and Everywhere
For No One
Good Day Sunshine
Doctor Robert
Tomorrow Never Knows

05/03
The White Album Pack 01:
Glass Onion
Obladi Oblada
The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill
Martha My Dear
I'm So Tired
Rocky Racoon
Don't Pass Me By
Yer Blues
Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except for Me and My Monkey
Cry Baby Cry

26/03
Help! Pack (12 songs - everything other than Help and Ticket to Ride)

09/04
Magical Mystery Tour Pack:
Magical Mystery Tour
The Fool on the Hill
Flying
Blue Jay Way
Your Mother Should Know
Penny Lane
Strawberry Fields
Baby, You're a Rich Man

23/04
The White Album Pack 02:
Happiness Is a Warm Gun
Blackbird
Piggies
Why Don't We Do It In The Road?
I Will
Mother's Nature Son
Long Long Long
Sexy Sadie
Savoy Truffle
Honey Pie

14/05
Please Me+With the Beatles Pack:
Misery
Chains
Ask Me Why
Baby It's You
All I've Got to Do
Don't Bother Me
Please Mister Postman
You Really Got a Hold On Me
Not a Second Time
Money (That's What I Want)

04/06
LAST DLC PACK
HARD DAY'S NIGHT + BEATLES FOR SALE:
Tell Me Why
I'm Happy Just to Dance With You
Honey Don't
What You're Doing
Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby
You Can't Do That
I'll Cry Instead
I'm a Loser
I'll Follow The Sun
I'll Be Back

SINGLES:
Free as a Bird
Real Love




That's it... According to my count, that will leave us with 179 songs (including on disc and AYNIL). Great amount, I think.

What do you think?

[navanb]

Nice work.

[awest505]

Would love it. It would be a great surprise to get some singles mixed in, maybe also some of the Past Masters and Love stuff.

I figure all these songs will make it into the game, but they'll spread it out over the next couple years so people can afford it.

[yaniv297]

I figure all these songs will make it into the game, but they'll spread it out over the next couple years so people can afford it.

Possibly. My schedule is probably too tight, I have no real idea how many time do they need to chart and create proper dreamscapes.

[Mister_Derp]

I didn't see I've Just Seen a Face in there, but other than that you have my approval.

[Hetz]

I didn't see I've Just Seen a Face in there, but other than that you have my approval.

I've Just Seen A Face would be in the HELP! pack.

[Rod_Stixx]

I don't think we'll see a "couple of years" worth of Beatles DLC. There just isn't enough of it to stretch it out that long. They could knock out the work on the tracks in the near term and just dish 'em out really slowly, but if you let it go too long, many people will have moved on to another game and you'll lose DLC sales. Since there isn't an infinite amount of DLC available like in RB 1-2, the game could probably be supported with DLC for as long as a year, and that would be a very reasonable amount of time to stretch out Beatles DLC. Nine months might be even better for maintaining maximum attention on the DLC for the game and reaching the max audience still playing it.

[yaniv297]

I didn't see I've Just Seen a Face in there, but other than that you have my approval.

It's there, in the Help! 12-pack.

The song I dropped are mainly from the first three albums. Help, Rubber Soul, Revolver, Pepper, MMT and Abbey Road are there in their eternity. Let it Be lacks "Maggie Me" and "Dig It", but the rest of it is there. The White Album Lacks "Revolution 9" "Julia" "Revolution 1" "Wild Honey Pie" and "Good Night".

[Mister_Derp]

I've Just Seen A Face would be in the HELP! pack.
Ah! Totally missed the Help! pack. Sorry about that.

[SirDrexl]

I don't think we'll see a "couple of years" worth of Beatles DLC. There just isn't enough of it to stretch it out that long. They could knock out the work on the tracks in the near term and just dish 'em out really slowly, but if you let it go too long, many people will have moved on to another game and you'll lose DLC sales. Since there isn't an infinite amount of DLC available like in RB 1-2, the game could probably be supported with DLC for as long as a year, and that would be a very reasonable amount of time to stretch out Beatles DLC. Nine months might be even better for maintaining maximum attention on the DLC for the game and reaching the max audience still playing it.

I don't know. This game wasn't meant to be a temporary container for content like RB and RB2. (Not that those games aren't good on their own, but if you think about it, the platform model kind of makes these games expendable as new versions are released.) It was made to last, and I can't imagine selling it or giving it away. As long as people want new Beatles songs, they'll come back to this game. And, it's highly unlikely they'll do a sequel, at least not until the next console generation.

Since they released 12 albums, I think they might just continue to do one per month, and throw in any non-album tracks here and there, so they'd finish in a year. However, the White Album might be split into two as some people are speculating.

[BLARGCOW]

I wish.

[yaniv297]

My guess is that by September 2010, all Beatles DLC will be finished.

[Ramirez16]

I would be happy with that. Though I wouldn't mind buying Love and Let It Be...Naked.

[sonicworld]

It would be awesome if the catalog could be purchased on disc. That way if I replace my system or my hard drive crashes I won't lose what could be a substantial investment. I wonder if they are considering this (as many Beatles fans will want them ALL and this type of comphrensive catalog release has never been done before).