Harmonix confirms Amazon Rock Band delay notices are wrong

by Alexander Sliwinski { Sep 26th 2007 at 4:40PM }

We'll keep this short and sweet. Amazon sent out notices this morning to customers that Rock Band had been delayed until late 2008. That is just plain wrong says Harmonix's PR. They have absolutely no idea how it happened, but when they asked Amazon to update their information to correct the error, Amazon then shifted all Rock Band content to 2008. Rock Band is still planned for this November with an official release date being announced "very soon."

A representative for Harmonix tells Joystiq, "We have asked Amazon to address this and we'll be coming out November of this year. We've requested they update their information. We have no idea where that date came from." So all those preparing to rock, and especially those that pre-ordered their Rock Band bundle off Amazon, it looks like everything's gonna be all right.

[Thanks to all those who sent this in]

Tags: amazon, breaking, breakingnews, rockband

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Strike Man @ Sep 26th 2007 4:45PM

For what it's worth, I recall the preorder list at the local EB Games listing Rock Band as having a November 20th street date. Street dates aren't usually listed on those sheets unless it's fairly official (even if it hasn't been announced publicly yet).

jsn @ Sep 26th 2007 5:15PM

I got an email from best buy saying the date was changed to 11/20/07.

codedigital @ Sep 27th 2007 9:54AM

Of course they do...I see release dates all the time that aren't official on those sheets. You should see the one I had printed off several months ago hanging on my fridge.

Strike Man @ Sep 27th 2007 10:07PM

I'm not saying that half of those dates (or more) aren't either made up or are just their best guess, but VERY few games have a Street Date, and once it's listed as such, it's usually quite official.

Luther @ Sep 26th 2007 4:50PM

Amazon probably just does this to get attention. They did the same with Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children and had a release date of something like January 1st, 2010, if I remember correctly. I don't really mind, since it's kinda funny.

T3H WICKERMAN @ Sep 26th 2007 4:50PM

obviously an activision mole deep undercover in amazon posted this to sell more copies of the soon to 2nd best guitar hero 3 or Guitar Hero3 the game of boss battles!

def PD @ Sep 26th 2007 4:51PM

How much is this bad boy going to cost is what I want to know! I can't wait to start drinking again and play with friends. (^.^)

samfish (MSDF- Nurse Outfit!) @ Sep 26th 2007 4:51PM

GTA IV comes out in October! I can't wait!

alu @ Sep 27th 2007 11:40AM

GTA 4 got pushed back to Spring '08 a while ago. sorry pal

Hey Apples @ Sep 26th 2007 5:05PM

As was speculated on the rockband.com forums... perhaps the 8/11 screwup date for next year was really intended to be 11/8 of this year.

blooh (CDF - Ass Ring) @ Sep 26th 2007 10:30PM

but the date is 11/20. the 8th is a thursday

Plaid Ninja @ Sep 27th 2007 12:30PM

Amazon has been dropping the ball pretty badly recently. I've had a lot of order troubles with them. This tuesday I found out my copy of Dethalbum - the 2 cd deluxe version - which I had pre-ordered some time ago, was sold out. Not only sold out but possibly never to come back in stock again. Or possibly to come back. Customer service had no idea and no intention of asking anyone who might have an idea. So I wound up going to Best Buy and getting it there, which turns out was a very rare thing. (its sold out everywhere)

I placed another order last night for an item in stock and when I checked this morning Amazon said the item would be in stock on october 5th - a complete contradiction from what was on their site last night. So I went to check my order status and couldn't get through. I then used their phone service and the csr hung up on me after saying the computers are down, call back later.