The PS3 RBN 2.0 Songs Request Thread

[xul15187]

I think this is also a matter of hardware capability, the Wii is pretty limited in what it can do.

[Ruz-El]

im sure people who own the game on wii would like all them songs as well not just ps3 users. the only thing i hate about businesses is they favor 1 console over the other i mean ps3 and wii have every right to the same songs as 360 has.

Sony and Nintendo might disagree with you. It's limitations in their licensing and hardware that prevents HMX form incorporating RBN on those platforms.

It's been discussed extensively.

[Bront20]

Fair question. And enough time has lapsed that we have some decent data from the 2x bass pedal experiment in October. Examining that data...

We now know:
1) There's marked enthusiasm for 2x bass pedal songs on PS3. When both versions became available simultaneously, the split between regular and bass was about 50/50.
2) But it looks like most PS3 players won't want to rebuy a song just because it's now available in a 2x bass version. When the normal version had already been released, the split dropped to something more like 75/25.

From this, we have concluded:
3) The ideal situation for releasing PS3 2x bass songs is when we can release both versions simultaneously.

But it's important to keep in mind:
4) Our standard release for PS3 is 5 songs. We have no expectation of this changing. Being able to release more than 5 songs is a rare occurrence that we can't guarantee on any kind of schedule.

Also, we believe:
5) A 2x bass song should never "take away" a PS3 slot from the regular version of a song. (As a parallel, RBN authors are not permitted to release a 2x bass pedal version to Xbox without also releasing a regular version.)
6) It isn't fair to our PS3 audience if we significantly delay releasing the regular version of a song in the hope of releasing it simultaneously with its 2x version.

So - those are the factors we're considering as we examine the possibility of any future 2x release. Yes, there is a chance - but we're balancing some complex factors, and we haven't ruled any songs out or in, because we don't have a time slot for another 10-song release (or any assurance that we'll find one - everything is completely hypothetical right now).

I hope this analysis gives some useful insight, even if it isn't the news you hoped for.

Just a thought, could you get Sony to up your song allocation to 6? Then you could release 1 2X song each week without losing your current content.

[ThatAuthoringGroup]

im sure people who own the game on wii would like all them songs as well not just ps3 users. the only thing i hate about businesses is they favor 1 console over the other i mean ps3 and wii have every right to the same songs as 360 has.

Actually the Wii had the same 'chances' as the other two consoles.

However when songs that sold 10,000 copies on the 360, and 5000 copies on the PS3 were selling 600 copies on the Wii? AND HMX had to go in and totally redo the tracks for the Wii as the files weren't compatible like the PS3 and 360 is with each other.

And that 600 copies was back in the halcyon days when tracks were selling 10,000 copies on the 360. Now that sales are down to 1,000 or under (and that's considered a big hit) on the 360? I can't even imagine what the numbers would be like on the Wii.

So it's not that HMX didn't support RBN for the Wii. (actually if you look at all the extra work that HMX had to put into transferring tracks to the Wii they actually supported it MORE than the PS3).

It's that the Wii audience didn't support the RBN.

[HMXLachesis]

Just a thought, could you get Sony to up your song allocation to 6? Then you could release 1 2X song each week without losing your current content.

I see where you're coming from. However, all questions of policies aside, it's important to keep in mind that a raise to 6 songs per week would be upping the PS3/RBN-related time and resources involved both at Sony and Harmonix by 20% - and we don't think that we'd be increasing the happiness of our PS3 audience proportionately. We'd rather use these time and resources in different ways that we believe will be more effective at making you happy.

[GameMaster439]

It's that the Wii audience didn't support the RBN.

Well, most of the Wii audience didn't...

[SheSaidSheSaid]

Okay, "Bullet" by Drugstore Fanatics is available on Xbox as of today. I expect it to be available for PS3 in precisely thirty days

[SheSaidSheSaid]

2) But it looks like most PS3 players won't want to rebuy a song just because it's now available in a 2x bass version.

I would rebuy "Ship With No Sails," and I don't even own a drum controller.

[ben2294]

selkies the endless obsession - btbam
(cant remember the name of song but its the only one by this band -septicflesh

[TheDescent]

selkies the endless obsession - btbam
(cant remember the name of song but its the only one by this band -septicflesh

errr... we just got it?