Sales Are In

[Behonkiss]

That'll probably help too, since the soundtrack's very British (Traveller's Tales being UK, I guess)

No, it probably won't. RB is so unpopular in the UK that even Beatles bombed over there.

[lanky316]

No, it probably won't. RB is so unpopular in the UK that even Beatles bombed over there.

It was however the most successful UK release (competing with Dirt2 and Batman as well as GH5), no doubt due to being the only one they've ran adverts for. That said they reverted to form since.nothing for lego. Meanwhile "The gaming event of the year" Band Hero is in all magazines getting plenty of publicity and a fortnight head start due to scattered release dates.

[Shorty11857]

Week 2 Sales

360
Lego 10756
Band Hero 9872
PS3
Lego 7192
Band Hero 9904
Wii
Lego 9991
Band Hero 24025

But in good news

TBRB - Wii: 47412 (highest since week 3), PS3: 10865 (Best since week 5), 360: 17663 (Best since week 4)

[CyanFunk]

The Wii sales are unsurprising considering how shanked we got with LEGO

[Shorty11857]

That would probably even them out... more sales / less profit. Hopefully it picks up around Christmas for both, this is kind of painful.

Beatles and GH5 sales were weak too, despite Beatles being higher than GH5, both were still incredibly low compared to past games (WT, RB2, etc.) Hopefully this isn't a bad sign. Times are tough but... are people just losing interest?

On Wii, The Beatles might be the biggest seller of the rock band franchise

RB 1 - 1.34 million
RB 2 - 0.74 million
TBRB - 0.73 million (60,000+ sales last week)

On the other consoles though...it might barely make half of RB2's sales on the 360

[wrldindstries302]

I find it interesting that this thread has gotten this far and no one has pointed out that VGChartz is being used as the source here. A site that basically guesses the sales numbers. I'm not saying the relative numbers are wrong, but the specifics should be taken with a huge grain of salt.

Also, I expect that more people will find out that Lego Rock Band exists because someone must have paid off Spike to include it in the nominations for "Music Game Of The Year" at the VGAs.

[Chaosraiden]

No, it probably won't. RB is so unpopular in the UK that even Beatles bombed over there.

Number copies of Rock Band, Rock Band 2, Beatles Rock Band in Currys and Comet = 0
Many copies of GHWT, GH5, DJ Hero Band Hero.


Even I import from US...

[kiggidykev]

That's lower than I expected, but I see the Lego games are being more of a long-term seller. I still regularly see people buying Lego Star Wars and Lego Batman new.

[Jet Blank]

No, it probably won't. RB is so unpopular in the UK that even Beatles bombed over there.

Rock Band is unpopular in the UK for a reason, at least with gamers. Not surprising considering Rock Band 2 on Wii has only just come out over here, and yet Guitar Hero is everywhere.