You know why there was no marketing for RB3?

[hmxhenry]

Diamaniacal, this thread has absolutely nothing to do with your XMB/RC issues. I had asked you not to make these kinds of posts in unrelated threads. If you can't post on topic (in this case, RB3 marketing) please do not post.

[Zebracakes]

Wii actually had a really great community during the RB2 era. It was sad seeing it die during RB3, the support for Wii players just wasn't there and the game didn't deliver on Wii. Everyone I know has jumped to Xbox now, and we were devoted Wii players back then. Those that didn't jump just quit altogether with the price of changing consoles.

[Diamaniacal]

Diamaniacal, this thread has absolutely nothing to do with your XMB/RC issues. I had asked you not to make these kinds of posts in unrelated threads. If you can't post on topic (in this case, RB3 marketing) please do not post.

My apologies, but I'm not the one that brought them into here, the OP even replied to someone concerning it. I was not trying to derail the thread simply debating an issue already being discussed in here.

[Backbeat60-62]

The Wii couldn't even handle the "Abbey Road Medley" as a single track like the other two consoles, that was a sign it probably wouldn't be able to handle some RB3 features either. They tried to make it work on the Wii, but I think the Wii itself was the problem.

But also, with RB3 came the first non-console specific controllers.

[randomas]

Diamaniacal, this thread has absolutely nothing to do with your XMB/RC issues. I had asked you not to make these kinds of posts in unrelated threads. If you can't post on topic (in this case, RB3 marketing) please do not post.

Love to know your reasoning for deleting my post, since most of it was related to marketing, product placement and its effects on customers ... but whatever ...

[Meat-Popsicle]

all this leads us back to the age old golden question...will there be a rock band 4?

I think we can all be certain that there will be a way to use the Rock Band DLC library on the new consoles, IF the DLC is able to be ported over (either for free or for a fee, even a relatively steep one). And that means Rock Band Blitz on the PS4 and Xbox720.

You can't play Rock Band 4 without a supply of new instruments, and that's not a problem that has an easy solution (other than the "Blitz" solution, which was both a seemingly obvious and yet totally brilliant step).

[hmxhenry]

My apologies, but I'm not the one that brought them into here, the OP even replied to someone concerning it. I was not trying to derail the thread simply debating an issue already being discussed in here.

If someone else brought up sandwiches and the OP replied to their post about sandwiches, that doesn't make sandwiches any more relevant to the original discussion, nor does it warrant an almost 1,200 word post about sandwiches.

Love to know your reasoning for deleting my post, since most of it was related to marketing, product placement and its effects on customers ... but whatever ...

Apologies, I must have accidentally deleted it when clearing out the off topic discussion. There isn't any way to undelete posts, so I've copied your original comment below. Feel free to repost if you'd like to make it clear the text is yours.

I'm one of the lucky few PS3 users who has had very few crashes (what's and RCS?), and still do every now and then get DLC.

That said I'm niche demographic within a niche.

I got RB3 because of pro-guitar which I only found out about because I'm a tech enthusiast and got pointed to an E3 video a year prior to release. Real guitar and video games? A life's prayers answered for. I would have crawled through broken glass naked for it.

I got the game on release date from a gamestop store that had GH merchandise everywhere, the clerk had to go out back to get my RB3 copy and keyboard. While I was seeing GH adds on TV and media push all over not a peep from RB3. I live in Italy which doesn't make things easier, because to get a pro drumkit I had to order from amazon in the UK and to get the squier I had to order from a musical instruments store in Germany (and got the last one)!!!

I don't play online, it's not my thing I'll play with friends at home sometimes, but not online I really don't like the online game dynamics ... So just not my thing. But the amount of issues seen with the PSN store is horrific, I know it's none of HMX's fault it's SCEE, but still the result is that I'm kind of disenfranchised, I'm also weary of getting DLC in case the pro-upgrades aren't working properly, it happened to me twice and had to wait 2 months to get a DLC I had already paid for.

I have a feeling that those that got into RB3 for the pro-guitar have mostly bled towards RS, and now that it's out in the EU as well, let's just say I'm playing a lot less RB ...

The result is I'm buying less DLC, I used to be willing to experiment more even with stuff I wasn't particularly fond of. Now I'm only getting stuff I really like and/or know very well. I'm actually looking forward to the GD reissue for the pro upgrades and will keep looking at what comes out ... But from now on it's RS first (not that they havn't had issues, it's actually worse) and RB second when it comes to DLC choice. And don't get me wrong I love RB and hope DLC lasts forever, but I put my money where the most enjoyment is.

[defdog99]

the only commercials I remember seeings were:
- the video game ads saying how glorious it was
and
- mtv commercials for music packs like the Paul McCartney band on the run.

I think the whole issue was MTV to tell you the truth.

ps. oh yeah... and my music store had some business cards for "a free doors song on rb3" near the register.

[randomas]

Apologies, I must have accidentally deleted it when clearing out the off topic discussion. There isn't any way to undelete posts, so I've copied your original comment below. Feel free to repost if you'd like to make it clear the text is yours.

Thanks.

[Pitch-Black]

How many people here on this forum who would never play COD know that COD Black Ops II just released? On the release date of RB 3 how many people on the COD forums who would never play RB knew RB 3 had been just released? I bet the answers to those two questions are very different. Why? Activision advertises the crap out of games. It works.

One of the reasons often sighted as the "demise" of rhythm gaming is the perception that each subsequent game is just a re-hash of the last one. But nobody does game re-hashing better than Activision (and everyone knows it), and I'm guessing this newest yet-another-frickin'-COD-game rehash is going to sell like hot-cakes for them (and I'm not really sure why hot-cakes themselves sell so well, come to think of it). Yes, I'm aware they are two very different games, blah blah blah. But both companies and both games strive to get the attention of the same group of people - gamers. Now obviously HMX doesn't have the means that Activision does, and I'll be the first to admit I have no idea how to run HMX's business. I'm just saying that I think you catch more fish with a bigger net.