Rock Band vs. Guitar Hero: The Rock Opera Continues

[Xzyliac]

Guitar Hero just put Activision as the top third party publisher of 07 bypassing EA.

Now can Rock Band put EA back on top? While the concept is hot the price appears to be a major turn off outside this forum.

[admanimal]

Rock Band will help, but probably not as much as Madden '08 will.

[hardyfoster]

rock band will perhaps bring in a new audience like guitar hero did. when GH first came out, people didn't know what it was until they played it at a friends house, then went out and bought a ps2 just to play the game.

rock band has in it's favor that it's a party game (4 players), so more people will be exposed to it and go out and buy it.

I've never been interested in Karaoke Revolution, but since rock band has that element in the game, i'm sure i'll do some singing as well as play the solo game involving singing. this may happen as well with karaoke players who weren't interested in guitar hero. they'll be interested in playing the guitar and drum parts.

i have a friend who didn't care much for the singing games, or guitar hero, but he just wants to play the drums....

so there's alot of "new" consumers out there....

i think it's smart they're releasing GH3 before RB instead of at the same time.

[Xzyliac]

I don't know. I just don't know.

[Rev0lver]

people are just used to guitar hero. and too stupid to realize harmonix created the first two games as well. but i garuntee once people start really recognizing this game nobody's going to go for gh4(if there will be one)

[IOIHUMMERIOI]

people are just used to guitar hero. and too stupid to realize harmonix created the first two games as well. but i garuntee once people start really recognizing this game nobody's going to go for gh4(if there will be one)

At this point, GHIII is going to be just an "add-on" for some extra songs to play. Rock Band seems to be the real deal, and Harmonix is promising the moon on this one between the extra content, hush-hush song list and the "rock solid" network code to make online play an incredible experience. Let's see if they can live up to it...

[Kaboobi]

Rock Band will be the better game by far, but I know that GH3 will sell far far far more copies initially than RB, but over time the sales will even out as it gains those "word of mouth" sales much like GH did.

[Eman311]

EA has madden 08. I think they'll be retaking the top spot fairly easily.
and what is this by? copies of games sold, profits?

[Xzyliac]

Profit. Madden is such a quick burst of success whereas GH has been in the top 10 ALL YEAR!

[IOIHUMMERIOI]

Madden is so overrated. It's the same thing, every year, with a few gimmicks and graphical tweaks here an there. This coming from a HUGE Madden fan when it actually meant something.

Too bad they snapped up the NFL rights and took 2K out of it. With that said, 2K dropped the ball on their latest offering, probably due to the fact that Madden is Madden and it will sell no matter what.

Oh well.

I will say, it looks like EA is trying to get some new franchises going (like Rock Band and Army of Two) instead of milking the same thing, over and over and over again like they've done for the past few years.