I'm surprised Rock Band caught up so quickly.

By the way, Rock Band's bundle is $170 on PS3 and Xbox360 and $160 on PS2. GH3 is $99 on Xbox360 and PS3 - that's a $70 difference. ;)

You can find Rock Band sub-$150 if you know where to look. I don't understand why anyone would buy the game and periphs separate at that price.

I much prefer RB's format. More players = more fun, and there's more longevity with the different instruments. Plus, RB has much more consistent DLC to keep me going.

well this just shows that people get aren't slaves to franchises and that if a better product comes out, they'll get it.

I think the plastic-instrument rhythm games have peaked out for now - too many more iterations and it's going to seem as bad as the whole Madden thing is. Same game every year with a new roster of songs, and a new guitar with all the improvements the last year's model should have had.

sigh,

I think I'm just going to go with GH2, and then get GH3. Because while I feel that Rock Band is definitely superior to the Gh series, I don't see any point in having all those extra peripherals, especially when I don't have too many friends coming over my house.

I just bought Rock Band at the beginning of this week.

I love the drums and love rocking out with my fauxhawk out!

Rock Band is the best game i have ever bought. I have never had a game i play so much. Every tuesday I am playing again and again. It's expensive but i think its so worth it.

For guitar playing, Guitar Hero can't be beat. I hate playing guitar on rock band because it just feels like it was never finished. Guitar Hero feels amazing. I also HATE the career mode for rock band. Why do I have to play say it ain't so by weezer several thousand times? I like the song but I'm kind of tired of it. Why is this set list with 3 songs from the easy section of tracks finished off with one of the impossible songs? Great I just lost 7,000 fans and there is no way of getting them back. Also, I don't know if this is a ps3 problem or what but the game hardly ever actually saves my progress. I'll start playing and be like "where'd those 50,000 fans I earned yesterday go?" and then realize that despite it saying it saved it actually didn't.

I love rock bands decision to do the weekly rollouts of DLC! I hope that the GH camp is taking notes, because this IS how DLC IS and should be done. DLC is what makes me come back to this game, since if I get burned out on it I can take a week or two off and then check back and jam out with some friends or my daughter to some new songs.

People still play Guitar Hero?

Any word on getting the Rock Band guitar to work with GH3? I haven't heard any news about that lately, I wonder what the status is.

"Although it would be easy to dismiss the accomplishment because GH III had already sold millions before Rock Band was even out of the gate, it does mean consumer don't think of Guitar Hero as the end all music game."

I'm not sure this is a fair inference.

Even though RB seems to be better than GH, now will be when Activision will start sweetening the GH deal, given the potential of RB.

I think rock band will continue to sell well based on word of mouth, much like guitar hero did at first.

I really like the direction and approach Harmonix has taken with Rock Band with the extra peripherals and focus on DLC.

However, I wish the gameplay (specifically the guitar) were just more fun. All that stuff kind of takes a backseat when I just don't have as much fun playing the game. I dunno what it is, but when I play the guitar on GH it actually feels like I'm rocking out, when I play it on Rock Band it feels like I'm pressing some random buttons while some music that has little to do with it plays in the background.

I think what happens is that since Rock Band has all the instruments they stay true to the original song. GH seems to artificially inflate the sounds of the guitar more. It's less "authentic" but just more fun to play.

Another part of it is that since Rock Band has all those instruments it keeps you playing your "real" instrument in the song. If you're playing lead guitar alone it only lets you play the lead guitar part of the song, which results in a lot of sitting around while you hear perfectly good notes but see a blank screen and think "why am I not playing this right now?". On GH you switch between lead and rhythm, etc so you're not just sitting around as much. I swear sometimes in GH you're playing sounds that aren't even made by a guitar, which is much better than sitting there picking your nose while the music plays.

I guess if I were more of a music purist I would like Rock Band more, but as someone who just wants to have fun with the game most of those songs are boring to me, which is odd because Rock Band has a lot more songs that I like than GH does but I still have more fun with the GH songs.

If Rock Band was more difficult, I'd switch over to it. Now that I've beaten -every- song on GH3, Rock Band just feels too easy.

I want some more DLC or a more difficult Rock Band... Please? D=

I just got Rock Band 2 weeks ago. I haven't even touched GH since then. We had a "marathon" session on Chinese New Year at my girlfriends house and my 360 was on from 2pm to around midnight. I'm bummed now that my 2nd 360 just RROD'd. My Best Buy is out of them but they are getting some in tomorrow so I will be able to swap it out. I'm not feelin a whole game dedicated to Aerosmith. I like variety and the games that are out now offer that.

This has nothing to do with the fact that Rockband was not available in canada before january and that all canadian pre-order were shipped in january as well.

/sarcasm

I haven't even thought of playing GH3 since buying Rock Band... in fact I thought about selling off the game and just keeping the Gibson.

The Guitar Hero franchise died for me the second I met Lou. I freakin HATE the boss battles