Rock Band bundle only $149 at Target this week

by Scott Jon Siegel on Feb 17th 2008 11:00AM

If the price is the only thing holding you back from Rock Band, then you might want to swing buy your local Target sometime this week. Starting today, Target's offering the PS3 and 360 versions of the special edition bundle for $149 USD, $20 off the normal price.

The offer's only good from the 17th to the 23rd, and sadly doesn't apply to the PS2 version. Despite those setbacks, it's still the cheapest we've seen the Rock Band bundle thus far. If you've already purchased the game, maybe this is a sign to buy it for a friend (or your favorite blogger who might have a birthday coming up...)

[Thanks, Jon B]

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Reader Comments (44)

Damn, I hate target

What's wrong with Target?

It's certainly better than Wal-Mart.

Target rocks. Damn, I hate you!

Yeah Target rules!

Cesaria... Friend Code? =)

you might like target to shop, but it is the worst place ever to fucking work.

get paid a little above minimum wage, and when the annual "pay increase" comes around, no one ever gets the full amount, they cut your hours to nothing (i was cut recently to one day a week, almost got fucking evicted cause of it), and if you do get another job they don't talk to anyone outside the company so its like you're working for nothing, no creditability.

Basically anyone you meet who complains about their job a shitload, 65% of the time I bet you it's target. Well at least that's my experience. Fuck Target.

Yes! Unfortunatly, Im also a team member there, and I despise it with a passion. After X-Mas, your hours are cut to about one day a week, and the raises there are a joke. The ONLY thing I like about target is the cool ppl that I work with. Oh, and that 10% discount came in handy when I bought my PS3.

Meh, until it rivals the price of Stepmania(free), I'll pass.

hahaha, Stepmania is so incredibly irrelevant here I don't even know where to start...

Start anywhere.

I'm well aware that they are different. But for a rhythm game, Stepmania works well enough for me.

It's a fine rhythm game. It's a terrible guitar, drum, and singing game.

Though I'm very tempted to use the argument elsewhere now... "Until the PS3 rivals the cost of stepmania, I'll pass!"

Fair enough, but I don't really care if I'm following the drums on a imitation drum set or on a keyboard.

Also, I might pick up a PS3 if it was free. :D

Hell, I'd pick up anything of value if it was free.

After taxes, it's cheaper to buy it from Amazon at $160.

Actually, it depends on state. Here, tax is 7%. So $149 plus $10.43 comes to 159.43 and I get it NOW rather then waiting until whenever UPS/Fedex delivers it.

I wonder if Best Buy would pricematch this? There's exactly 0 on the shelves of my Target but approximately 100 in an aisle at BB.

My god, I went to BB yesterday and they had like 1000 of them. They were everywhere!

Apparently they have the drums separate now for $80, as well.

Haha, tell me about it. I think they had four separate piles at my store taking up tons of floor space. I'm sure they'd be glad to get rid of them, even at $20 below MSRP.

God, I can't wait til the government hands out those $600 rebates! I'm getting a 360 and Rock Band. Oh, and maybe COD4. i don't really like the game that much, but all my friends play it. Does it get better with time?

COD4 is really awesome in the beginning but it gets worse in time - the game just becomes about getting all the challenges and as soon as you get there (a couple weeks dedicated play) it's boring and not so much fun anymore IMO.

I'm more of the arcadey style shooter fan myself, than realistic. It just seems more fun to me to shoot plasma rifles than real ones, and to be in different environments i.e. Halo. All my friends hate halo and that's the sole reason I'm picking up an 360 is to play with my friends I can't see all the time. Everyone seems to say COD is better, though.

We price match it at best buy. But we don't get our discount on price matched items, so for us it's no different.

I just bought it yesterday from best buy. Will they pricematch for me since its within 2 weeks or something like that?

We do that on TVs and stuff, but we don't do it on games.

Blast, why must I be broke!

That carmera seems to be a great deal.

The camera does too.

FYI - it has always been $149 at Sam's Club. It's where I got mine. So if you have a membership or know someone who does you might want to check it out.

Man I work at Target and at the electronic section and Im probably gonna get a lot of calls for this... O and it is a great place to work compare to my other job, its probably bad management @ the target you work sicsided. Trust me, there are worst jobs than working at Target, try Hollywood videos....

I bought it at Sam's Club last Tuesday for $149.66, so if you have a Sam's Club membership and can't get it at Target during this sale, $149.66 is the regular price at Sam's.

Sorry, Kasey beat me to it.

I'd hit it.....

Hmm, still waiting on Rock Band 2 and better quality peripherals. Only reason im not running out to buy this.

Seems kind of silly. RB2 is probably 12-18 months away and isn't really necessary thanks to DLC. And other than the guitar's strum bar, the periphs are rock solid. Just use a GH guitar, you can get those for sub-$40.

I'd be waiting for RB2 also. I mean seriously - rhythm games are expensive! Even at $150 that's two seperate, new, full-length games AND an older one or a decent number of MS points for XBLA/DLC. Considering the peripherals, I'm waiting for the all-peripheral version to drop to $100 before I even think of buying it.

As for the matter of DLC replacing the need for a sequel, I'm not familiar with half the music they put in these games anyways. Odd's are, the games (out of about 70 songs) end up with about 10-20 songs that I really like and will keep on playing often. I don't want to pay for a song that I might not end up liking - the song is just as much the actual music and lyrics as it is the notes on screen - I really like Killswitch Engage as a song, but it was a crap song to play in GH3.

The instruments are pretty much rock solid now,The strum bar problem has been fixed...Magnetic strummers FTW...Go out and buy the game,Its pretty much the awesomest family/friend game ever.

See, being a Sams club member does pay off..

This is the first week I've ever hated buying Rock Band over Guitar Hero...

...then again, the joy I had over the past months compared to 20 bucks is irrelevant.

I just bought the 360 version of Rock Band at Target less than a week ago. *sigh* Though they did only have one in stock, so at this sale price I bet it would be even harder to come by.

If it has been less than a week, take your receipt back to the store, and you can get the difference back.

Really? I bought it on the 11th, so I need to go before the 18th. Do you know if it has to be the same Target or can it be any Target? Thanks for the heads-up.

You can take it to any target.

Thanks AK. I just went to Target and got the price adjustment and you saved me $22.46

too bad I already bought this the 1st day it came out....although am tempted to get another set of drums--that way I can get a Y-splitter and have dual bass drum kick pedals.

Am I really the only one who realizes that they marked the original price as $69.99

It says it. Right there. On the ad. "Reg. $69.99"

Silly Target.

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