Sales Are In

[GodKilla666]

I still love seeing Taylor Swift in those commercials. She can join my band any day!

[nightsx2]

LOL - Taylor Swift looks great in Band Hero. Gwen Stefani, on the other hand, looks horrid. But then again...maybe that's just how she looks. But I'm not surprised she's suing Activision

[master2uall]

well modern warfare 2 made 310 million bucks in 24 hours, so that should help out for this month, before they start moaning again next month that they only made 200 million bucks, sheesh, how much money is enough?

[dragonflyr]

BH has the marketing and better set list and caters to it's core audience a little better (imo, of course).

Lego seems to be "straddling" a variety of potential buyers ... little kids, adults, teens. It tries to cover a lot of ground.

BH seems to be targeted straight to a top40 crowd. It is a little more focused.

I'm not trashing LRB at all ... I just think it tries to cover too many bases.

[ryanco64]

L:RB failed on the Wii when they couldn't play their DLC nor export.
Lily_mu actually wants a 360 now because of that. O_O

[obladerek]

From Vgchartz North American Sales are

Total
Lego Rock Band: 45884
Band Hero: 63587

Pretty bad sales for both

I looked up the sales numbers on vgchartz from the first week of TB:RB & GH5 and these are embarrassingly low. I wouldn't expect them to be nearly as high but 10x-15x lower is a shock!

Total (week 1)
The Beatles Rock Band: 706,913
Guitar Hero 5: 581,476

[T-Hybrid]

Well Modern Warfare 2 sold 7 million in one day, so it's not like there's no money to buy games out there.

There's money for games, there's just no money for games as frequently as Activision pumps them out.

Think about it...

Guitar Hero Metallica
Guitar Hero Smash Hits
Guitar Hero 5
DJ Hero
Band Hero
Guitar Hero Van Halen

...That's all this year, and those last four and all within a THREE MONTH PERIOD.

And all of those games are full $60 titles (with DJ Hero checking in at nearly double that).

[ksama1]

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.

Actually they lost out on the 360 and ps3 because they were stupidly not putting the new drums in the kit. They only let the Wii get the new drums unless you bought the European version. It would have been a complete blow out had they let all platforms get the new drums. I didnt buy band hero specifically for that reason. When and if they release an updated kit with the newer drums on the 360 I will get it.

[jasonrosenbaum]

I still enjoy the game, so I'm happy. LRB didn't really have any advertisements to speak of, so it's not surprising that the sales are low.

[T-Hybrid]

It would have been a complete blow out had they let all platforms get the new drums.

Is there anything actually "new" about the drums aside from "The cymbals are round instead of triangles?"