EA confirms Rock Band in US 2007 despite AU and EU delays [Update]
According to Red Octane COO Charles Huang "multiple territories ... will not see Rock Band this Christmas." Now remember, Red Octane makes Guitar Hero and is the competitor to the Harmonix developed, EA published, Rock Band. Huang believes Australia and New Zealand are out this year and expects those territories to pay $275 Australian for the game and peripherals. Speaking with Gamespot AU, he says possible release delays can be attributed to peripheral manufacturing output and that this could reach beyond the Asia-Pacific region. Huang says, "I'm not singling out Australia -- probably it will be multiple territories that will not see Rock Band this Christmas is my guess." EA Australia won't confirm the information, but GameSpot UK was told by their EA rep, "We don't think [Rock Band] will be released in Q4."
EA confirmed with Joystiq that Rock Band is still coming to the US in 2007. Although there is still no announced release date, no confirmed peripheral price, and we've heard hardly a peep about the game from the corporate side since the good buzz generated by E3. And we know we were working with "prototype" peripherals that hadn't gone into mass production at E3. We've asked for comment from EA about what's going on with the game and its peripherals. We'll update as soon as we hear back.
Update: EA got back to us and said that "everything is on track to launch the game on time" in the US. They'd also like to clarify that no European or Australian ship dates were ever announced and "at this point everything else is pure speculation." They won't answer specific questions regarding US peripheral supplies, we asked if they can guarantee at least a guitar for every copy of the game, but they do say that they're "working as hard as [they] can to produce as many copies of the game as quickly as [they] can." And finally, in terms of a release date, "We're almost there! Rock Band will ship this holiday in North America for the PS3 and Xbox 360."
EA confirmed with Joystiq that Rock Band is still coming to the US in 2007. Although there is still no announced release date, no confirmed peripheral price, and we've heard hardly a peep about the game from the corporate side since the good buzz generated by E3. And we know we were working with "prototype" peripherals that hadn't gone into mass production at E3. We've asked for comment from EA about what's going on with the game and its peripherals. We'll update as soon as we hear back.
Update: EA got back to us and said that "everything is on track to launch the game on time" in the US. They'd also like to clarify that no European or Australian ship dates were ever announced and "at this point everything else is pure speculation." They won't answer specific questions regarding US peripheral supplies, we asked if they can guarantee at least a guitar for every copy of the game, but they do say that they're "working as hard as [they] can to produce as many copies of the game as quickly as [they] can." And finally, in terms of a release date, "We're almost there! Rock Band will ship this holiday in North America for the PS3 and Xbox 360."






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soupbase @ Aug 15th 2007 4:06PM
I'm pretty sick of this building hype by releasing song info while we still don't know much about the game itself. Price being the biggest point.
As for region delays, too bad.
Iced_Eagle @ Aug 15th 2007 4:21PM
Bummer for those who have the delay.
I probably won't even pick this up until next summer anyways. :-(
MoominBiscuit @ Aug 15th 2007 4:24PM
To be honest, I didnt expect this game to come out this year in the UK. I mean, it took 6 months after GH1 came out in the US for it to appear on UK shores, and that was when they were working with a peripherial company.
Captain Jody Anthony XVIII @ Aug 15th 2007 4:25PM
the game looks like great fun but the people look creepy as hell
ssuk @ Aug 15th 2007 4:25PM
We (heart) you too, EA
Love, Europe
Crono @ Aug 15th 2007 4:52PM
I needs a release date, STAT!
License to ill @ Aug 15th 2007 4:59PM
Losing interest in this game and the price could kill it...
mike @ Aug 15th 2007 9:02PM
Would anyone else be 100 times happier if EA wasn't publishing this game?
I don't want to spend $3 each for instrument themes. :(
mike @ Aug 15th 2007 9:04PM
Would anyone else be 100 times happier if EA wasn't publishing this game?
I don't want to spend $3 each for instrument skins.
Rob @ Aug 16th 2007 3:03PM
"We're almost there! Rock Band will ship this holiday in North America for the PS3 and Xbox 360."
i.e. There's not a hope in hell it's coming to the Euro PAL territories any time soon. Don't worry too much, we're pretty much used to this. Trauma Centre: Second Opinion only just came out over here last Friday, and Wario Ware Twisted STILL hasn't come out over here. Is it a coincidence that both games I picked are on Nintendo??.....