Sales Are In

[Shorty11857]

From Vgchartz North American Sales are
Wii:
Lego Rock Band: 16,069
Band Hero: 27,581

360:
Lego Rock Band: 17,895
Band Hero: 19,782

PS3
Lego Rock Band: 11920
Band Hero: 16,224


Total
Lego Rock Band: 45884
Band Hero: 63587

Pretty bad sales for both

[A New Pyro Fool]

Activision, IMO, has lost out more on profit because they must've spent quite a lot of money to advertise Band Hero on all major network stations while Lego: Rock Band received virtually no advertisements at all.

[Gryffindor]

I haven't seen a single TV ad for LRB at all. There hasn't been much buzz about either game really.

I did catch a few minutes of the national news on our local PBS station this evening and the reporter was commenting about video games as a whole being down about 30% this year.

The recession has really cut into sales. It's a running joke over at Joystiq about how many games have been pushed back to Q1 2010 due to the economy. I think many developers/distributors have given up on Christmas and are hoping that tax returns will help with sales.

[Shorty11857]

I haven't seen a single TV ad for LRB at all. There hasn't been much buzz about either game really.

I did catch a few minutes of the national news on our local PBS station this evening and the reporter was commenting about video games as a whole being down about 30% this year.

The recession has really cut into sales. It's a running joke over at Joystiq about how many games have been pushed back to Q1 2010 due to the economy. I think many developers/distributors have given up on Christmas and are hoping that tax returns will help with sales.

Well Modern Warfare 2 sold 7 million in one day, so it's not like there's no money to buy games out there. I think the music genre is slowly disappearing sadly...

[wcarnation]

I imagine it would be disappearing a lot slower if Activision didn't vomit all over it continually.

Yes, I know, you're going to chime in about how some people like both and whatnot, but having +10 games a year is hurting the genre, especially when those games crib 50% of their setlist off Rock Band's lists, and insist on copious amounts of pack-ins.

[Gryffindor]

There's definitely oversaturation in the market in regards to music based games but couldn't the same thing be said about FPS's?

Both of my kids have said that GH & RB are so 2007.

The only game that I'm anxiously awaiting to be released is Bioshock 2.

[Lawdog1521]

Well Modern Warfare 2 sold 7 million in one day, so it's not like there's no money to buy games out there. I think the music genre is slowly disappearing sadly...

MW2 is considerably different though. It’s an anticipated sequel 2 years in the making. Of course it’s going to sell.

[HauntingYourKids]

Kinda interesting how Band Hero Wii outsold everything by quite a margin. I guess it goes to show how youth oriented both really are.

[jaygrady]

There's definitely oversaturation in the market in regards to music based games but couldn't the same thing be said about FPS's?

Both of my kids have said that GH & RB are so 2007.

The only game that I'm anxiously awaiting to be released is Bioshock 2.

I also am waiting for Bioshock 2!
While your kids may think that, I'm still buying and still playing.

[Lawdog1521]

Let's not forget BH goes for the full "tween" crowd, so for that market, which has been generally passed over by both GH and RB, it's going to sell.