The Beatles: Rock Band 2? Quite a possibility (IMO).

[elfreako]

Here's 36 right now that would work off the top of my head that aren't released currently, nor slated to be released in DLC. Not saying that this makes it anymore feasible, but just showing how diverse their career REALLY is:

Love Me Do
She Loves You
Please Please Me
All My Loving
Till There Was You
Please Mister Postman
Everybody's Trying to be my Baby
If I fell
And I Love Her
Anytime At all
Help!
You've Got to Hide Your Love Away
I've just seen a Face
Yesterday
I'm Down
We Can Work It out
Rain
I'm Only Sleeping
Good Day Sunshine
Doctor Robert
Got to Get you Into My Life
Strawberry Fields Forever
Penny Lane
Baby Your a Rich Man
Ob-la-Di-Ob-la-Da
Happiness is a Warm Gun
Blackbird
Rocky Raccoon
Revolution 1 (original version, not the single)
Lady Madonna
Hey Jude
Let it Be
Across The Universe
You know My Name (Look up the Number)
One after 909
The Long and Winding Road

I doubt they can sell that list as a game and make more $$$ off of it than they would with DLC. Half of those songs are unknown to casual Beatles listeners. They make a lot more on DLC since it's more expensive and involves little cost.

Then consider the risk of a sequel not selling well. The financial consequences would be pretty severe. DLC on the other hand involves no risk whatsoever. A song doesn't sell well? So what! It didn't cost much to have it available in the first place, they already have access to most of their discography.

Maybe a track pack of 20 songs already available as DLC makes sense, but a full game? They need to move on to other projects.

[dragonflyr]

ummm.. dlc.

???

[LoopyChew]

Track packs likely.

This. I can see individual albums being sold as SKUs at some point, or anthology track packs, e.g. The Beatles '62-'64 Track Pack (Featuring the Please Please Me and With the Beatles songs not already on-disc, and singles from those years). Plenty of material to mine, the venues already chosen, badda-bing, badda-bang, badda-boom.

I'd think later albums would have to be more cherry-picked for group play (Although Revolution 9 would be kinda funky on its own).

[Andyy]

I genuinelly see it too, in fact at the end of the game all I could think was "Man, this game deserves a sequel" and would explain why its so short!

As a side note, I'm watching friends, the one where Phoebe meets David (the scientist) and breaks him up from his best friend, and the friend refers to Phoebe as "Yoko", just thought that was a huge coincidence.

[Andyy]

I doubt they can sell that list as a game and make more $$$ off of it than they would with DLC. Half of those songs are unknown to casual Beatles listeners. They make a lot more on DLC since it's more expensive and involves little cost.

Then consider the risk of a sequel not selling well. The financial consequences would be pretty severe. DLC on the other hand involves no risk whatsoever. A song doesn't sell well? So what! It didn't cost much to have it available in the first place, they already have access to most of their discography.

Maybe a track pack of 20 songs already available as DLC makes sense, but a full game? They need to move on to other projects.

I personally don't see why Harmonix should, The Beatles are almost indisputably the best band ever, and made such a good job of TB:RB. Also it sold surprisingly well, and the world sat up and took notice of HMX for the first time I'd say, in Britain one of the Tabloid newspapers had a whole 4 page pull out dedicated to the game. Thats pretty high profile.

[Kingfish]

Ok here is a quick list of songs from the early years up to Revolver (minus Rubber Soul cause we know its coming).

See if there are a few songs in there that could/would/should sell on their own. *NOTE; tho this is called a squeal I am more calling this a major expansion and not a real standalone. Also, I threw it together quick and if I missed something, oh well. Tracks in chronological order of UK releases;

1 Misery
2 Anna (Go to Him)
3 Chains
4 Ask Me Why
5 Please Please Me
6 Love Me Do
7 P.S. I Love You
8 Baby It's You
9 A Taste of Honey
10 There's a Place
11 It Won't Be Long
12 All I've Got to Do
13 All My Loving
14 Don't Bother Me
15 Little Child
16 Till There Was You
17 Please Mr. Postman
18 Roll Over Beethoven
19 Hold Me Tight
20 You Really Got a Hold on Me
21 Devil in Her Heart
22 Not a Second Time
23 Money (That's What I Want)
24 I Should Have Known Better
25 If I Fell
26 I'm Happy Just to Dance with You
27 And I Love Her
28 Tell Me Why
29 Any Time at All
30 I'll Cry Instead
31 Things We Said Today
32 When I Get Home
33 You Can't Do That
34 I'll Be Back
35 No Reply
36 I'm a Loser
37 Baby's in Black
38 Rock and Roll Music
39 I'll Follow the Sun
40 Mr. Moonlight
41 Kansas City/Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey
42 Words of Love
43 Honey Don't
44 Every Little Thing
45 I Don't Want to Spoil the Party
46 What You're Doing
47 Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby
48 Help!
49 The Night Before
50 You've Got to Hide Your Love Away
51 I Need You
52 Another Girl
53 You're Going to Lose That Girl
54 Act Naturally
55 It's Only Love
56 You Like Me Too Much
57 Tell Me What You See
58 I've Just Seen a Face
59 Yesterday
60 Dizzy Miss Lizzy
61 For No One
62 Eleanor Rigby
63 I'm Only Sleeping
64 Love You To
65 Here, There and Everywhere
66 She Said She Said
67 For No One
68 Doctor Robert
69 I Want to Tell You
70 Got to Get You Into My Life
71 Good Day Sunshine

[RMThompson]

I doubt they can sell that list as a game and make more $$$ off of it than they would with DLC. Half of those songs are unknown to casual Beatles listeners. They make a lot more on DLC since it's more expensive and involves little cost.

Then consider the risk of a sequel not selling well. The financial consequences would be pretty severe. DLC on the other hand involves no risk whatsoever. A song doesn't sell well? So what! It didn't cost much to have it available in the first place, they already have access to most of their discography.

Maybe a track pack of 20 songs already available as DLC makes sense, but a full game? They need to move on to other projects.

You know it seems that only fans of this forum seem to think that Harmonix is like a collection of movie directors that can only be working on so many projects at a time. Surely they have thier creative leads, but truthfully, if they WANTED to be working on RB3 right now and Beatles 2 and Lego RB 2 and whatever else they wanted... they could.

Besides, it seems that The Beatles might outsell the previous RB games... Harmonix doesn't owe us any new projects, they are there to sell games, make money.

[Kingfish]

Agreed RMT!

And the special thing about TB:RB I think the DLC sales are a lock! 1 mil TB:RB = 900,000+ of each DLC released.

You can't say that about RB2. If they release a DLC song in RB2 its virtually guaranteed that a quarter will hate it, a quarter will love it and half will not give a ratsass about it. The Beatles offer a little more, respect/love whatever.

[RMThompson]

Agreed RMT!

And the special thing about TB:RB I think the DLC sales are a lock! 1 mil TB:RB = 900,000+ of each DLC released.

You can't say that about RB2. If they release a DLC song in RB2 its virtually guaranteed that a quarter will hate it, a quarter will love it and half will not give a ratsass about it. The Beatles offer a little more, respect/love whatever.

I don't know if it's a 90% turnover but sure it's going to be higher than the regular RB2 releases. There are still going to be lots of people who simply don't/won't/can't download additional content.

[nicko68]

I think a sequel would make them look really bad, like they are going to the well again. I'd sooner see another band focused game done with the care this one was.

Now if they wanted to do a Track Pack based on a possibly stripped down B:RB engine, that would be different.