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At least, the vast majority of people who bought the Rock Band big box, playing 20th Century Boy with mates while drunk, didn’t want that. This is where the journalists got it wrong, I think: it’s a noble message, and one that gets you high review scores, but people just don’t want to buy it. It’s the music game that’s going to actually give you real-world improvement. It said that ‘Rock Band 3 is for the musical enthusiast who wants to bring their skills to video gaming’. There’s a reason that Ride got greenlit, as Activision had seen so much success with the peripherals of their own Guitar Hero.īut the real kicker, I think, was that Rock Band 3’s central message was so nerdy, so niche. Peripherals were dropping in from so many other games, platforms and genres, too, as Guitar Hero had kickstarted something of a trend. I bought the keytar for reasons that I can’t fully explain other than novelty, but the drum-kit with extra cymbal, the two pro-controllers… I just couldn’t justify the house space, let alone the price. The accepted wisdom was that a mainline Rock Band and Guitar Hero would reinvigorate it all, but, well, the accepted wisdom was wrong.ĭuring a recession, there was also peripheral fatigue. Song packs were releasing on the Xbox Store by the week, and the saturation point had been reached. Over in Guitar Hero land, there was Band Hero, DJ Hero, World Tour and umpteen others. From Rock Band 2’s launch to Rock Band 3, we had – deep breath – The Beatles Rock Band (best rhythm action game of all time, so say I), Lego Rock Band, Rock Band Unplugged, Rock Band Mobile and Green Day Rock Band. It’s only in hindsight that we can see what went wrong. We were all doffing our caps to Harmonix for getting people to learn real instrumentation.
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The peripherals that came with the launch, including the MIDI adapter that allowed you to plug in your own instruments, the keytar and the pro guitars with 102 buttons, were all lauded as being a bridge to actual, real music playing. Virtually every news outlet and magazine was trumpeting it as the second (okay, third) coming. Yet, this was a game that scored a 93 on Metacritic. This wasn’t just a failure, it was a categorical disaster. Considering the game sold in such a miniscule amount, you can only imagine what the countless peripherals notched. For context, the first Rock Band sold 4 million units, and the first Guitar Hero sold 11.8 million. Only 7,400 units were sold across all platforms and SKUs, which is crazy, and it landed at 26th in the All Platforms chart. Still have my old 360 instruments though and they’re meant to be backwards compatible, so it’s tricky.At the time of Rock Band 3’s launch, no one was predicting the size of the failure, and boy, it was a hell of a failure.
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And then if I start over, what platform? I was 360 last gen, but use my PS4 more this gen.
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I’m about to migrate to the US, and the big question for me is whether to get a PAL copy of the game so I can access all the DLC I owned (would have spent upwards of $50 on songs, plus had all the stuff carried over from RB1 & 2 and Lego Rock Band) or just leave it and start over. So if that was a priority for you you’d want to buy the instruments and then get a PAL copy of the game on the cheap somewhere. What I expect though is that if you imported the game from the US, you’d lose any access to previous-gen DLC from PAL areas.
You can move the region of your account just by changing a field on the account page.
However Microsoft has largely done away with region restrictions on accounts on XB1.
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On 360, it would have worked the same way as with PS3 – DLC purchased for PAL Rock Band 3 would only be playable on the PAL version. Xbox One, though, is much trickier to figure out. If you played on PS3, you would lose your DLC access moving to PS4 and to another region – DLC is usually regioned to the game, so you’d need a PAL PS4 copy to access your PS3 DLC. It’s actually going to be pretty interesting in that regard.
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