GHWT outsells Rock Band 2 by massive margin
- Posted January 26th, 2009 at 16:11 EDT by Eric Blattberg
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The 2008 NPD software sales numbers have arrived, and with them come an official music game victor. Guitar Hero World Tour crushed Rock Band 2 at retail. While the highly praised Rock Band 2 managed to push a respectable 1.7 million units across the PS2, PS3, Wii, and Xbox 360, Guitar Hero ultimately won out. World Tour sold a whopping 3.4 million during 2008.
There are two primary factors that explain this disparity. While Rock Band 2 rolled out gradually across the four platforms (360, September 14; PS3, October 19; Wii and PS2, December 18), Guitar Hero World Tour launched simultaneously on all four on October 26. The main reason for World Tour's victory, however, is purely brand name. Even though Neversoft, not Harmonix, developed World Tour, the Guitar Hero name has become synonymous with music games, and part of mainstream culture. Average Joe doesn't know that Harmonix created Guitar Hero 1 in 2 -- in fact, Average Joe doesn't know who Harmonix is at all.
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dannycorkers |
dannycorker- 4:47pm GMT - January 26th, 2009
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Well I know a lot of people who would have bought RB2 for PS3 if it was out in Europe yet, but haven't and no longer plan to thanks to the disgusting way HMX have treated Europeans - RB1 releasing over here when RB2 does in USA, no patch to make GHWT drums work on RB1 - did anyone expect anything else to happen.....
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supamariobrotha |
supamariobrotha- 4:53pm GMT - January 26th, 2009
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wow i thought rock band 2 was leading
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Alpha2
- 4:55pm GMT - January 26th, 2009
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That's sad that people ran out in droves to buy the inferior ripoff of Rock Band. Even Forbes.com called rockband a ripoff of Guitar hero even though it's World tour that's really ripping off RockBand! I have no argument about people enjoying GHWT but I hate seeing people buy the worst of two products.
On the bright side maybe this will get HMX to start releasing their titles in the UK at the same time from now on instead of waiting 6 months and letting GH hog the territory.
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DemonOfRazgriz07 |
DemonOfRazgriz07- 5:00pm GMT - January 26th, 2009
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@ 4 - Exactly.. lol
p.s. im proudly stickin my guns to RB2 :)
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ypaotroicn
- 5:06pm GMT - January 26th, 2009
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I liked the hardware of GT:WT better. especially the drums. those 5 pads plus the kick did it for me. the guitar is more solid too IMO
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sorrow880 |
Sorrow880- 5:10pm GMT - January 26th, 2009
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Undeserved...as an owner of both, Rock Band 2 is definitely the better game in most respects, but oh well, the masses don't know anything but the name "Guitar Hero." I would be interested in seeing what the downloadable content figures come out to because I have a feeling Rock Band dominates on that front.
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lordAlucard |
Sympozium_666- 5:57pm GMT - January 26th, 2009
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If Rock Band 2 was released in Europe for PS3 & Wii I think it could've sold better than that trash
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DJDarkViper |
DJDarkViper- 6:06pm GMT - January 26th, 2009
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Actually, i think its because World Tour exists on every platform it can get its grubby mits on, while Rock Band caters really only to the main 3 consoles.
But on that note, despite 3.4m World Tour sales, ive NEVER seen one playing it, except for one dude i know who rented it for free to see what it was like, and then strangely enough went right back to Rock Band 2.
Also why wouldn't Rock Band 2 sell more? Probably because its too similar to Rock Band 1, in fact you could call RB2, just RB1.5, and most people dont see a reason to upgrade when the DLC is also RB1 compatable.
So id say you could combine RB1 sales and RB2 sales and youd get a figure that shoudl trump World Tour. If it doesn't, then whatever, i can still agree to your brand recognition theory hehe -
DeadOnArrival06 |
DeadOnArrival06- 6:08pm GMT - January 26th, 2009
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I'm sticking to Rock Band. I much prefer that game.
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RogurtNChzz |
RogurtNChzz- 6:53pm GMT - January 26th, 2009
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Hah !!!!! ROCKBAND JUST GOT PWNED!!!!!!! ( i own GHWT full band kit) AND JYST BECAUSE OF THE NAME!!!!AHHHH THIS IS GOOD!
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DarkNemesis
- 7:17pm GMT - January 26th, 2009
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@ 22 - You are right,that's what they get for jumping into bed with M$.
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Funeralfog |
blksabbath- 7:22pm GMT - January 26th, 2009
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its called marketing and all you hear is GH this GH that
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Ahaaa |
A-HAAA- 8:05pm GMT - January 26th, 2009
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There is only one thing that rock band has on g hero its dowlodable content i hate the rock band guitar its like light as air there is nothing to it. the only reasson i never liked rock band was because of the setlist it has a bunch of weird songs but g hero got weird songs now to. rock band setlist is so weird. g hero is definitley better.
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The Master
- 8:58pm GMT - January 26th, 2009
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That's too bad, Rock Band 2 is a much better game, I loved the original GH's, GH3 guitar sucked and neversoft/activision wouldn't do anything about it. RB original guitar didn't work, harmonix sent me a brand new one even before I sent the broken one back. RB2 drums are amazing,GHWT needs larger cymbals, GHWT isn't a bad game but neversoft can't get back the rocking feeling I had when I played GH2.
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a_stray_bullet10
- 11:42pm GMT - January 26th, 2009
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i couldnt give a flying F**** who makes guitar hero. if its fun its fun.
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Dragon-slayer87 |
Dragon-Slayer87- 3:51am GMT - January 27th, 2009
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Still waiting for rock band 2 in EU!!
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disunion
- 4:37am GMT - January 27th, 2009
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this news sucks. i refuse to buy ghwt since they didn't add trophies for ps3 and rock band 2 actually took the time to do so. also rock band 2 sound track is 100 times better than guitar hero's. not only were there better songs on rb2 but the good ones on guitar hero were also on rock band 2. all around rb2 is better quality.
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Jackobinen
- 7:24am GMT - January 27th, 2009
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Well thats really strange when Rock Band 2 for the Ps3 didnt come to Europe until this week! Why do you do this to me Harmonix!!!
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hurley66
- 9:53am GMT - January 27th, 2009
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@18 it isnt microsofts its that EA is skimping on the instrument production youll note the same thing happened with RB1 which took a year to fix the thing is EA should just ship us the game regardless of the instruments but that would mean profit loss so they cant do that
@44 thats M$ exclusivity deal yet to see a release in aus
rock bands content shift would be unfair competition as A they smartly made it Backwards compatable and b there was next to no content release for number 3 because they knew they were making WT -
funkybudda |
funkybudda- 11:14am GMT - January 27th, 2009
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rofl, this is what you get for going xbox 360 first, freaking sell out losers, Stupid Rock Band.
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Blaze463 |
Blaze463- 10:45am GMT - January 28th, 2009
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I laugh so hard at you RB fanboys when you say GH is inferior. I am so glad I havn't purchased RB2 yet, and chose to go with GHWT. I loved RB and played it so much because it was better than GH3. I still loved GH3 btw. Then they announced RB2 and i thought ok cool. Then I saw the new features it would have...all 2 of them. Seriously RB2 is SOOOO much like RB1 it just pisses me off. The graphics are EXACTLY the same. The songs were better in RB1. But theres an online band world tour!! cool, i can do that in GHWT. I can also make my own songs, play with legends (such as: ozzy osbourne, zakk wylde, ted nugent, billy corgan, jimi hendrix, sting, travis barker, etc.), play BETTER songs included on the disc. GHWT does have some good DLC. Much better than RB's crappy DLC when it first started coming out. The instruments are way better. period. Honestly, the only reason I will most likely buy RB2 one day is for DLC and to play with my friends. GHWT has brought so many more new features than "RB1 with new songs" has. It deserves to be #1
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