Guitar Hero 5 goes straight to the top of the UK charts

For the casual audience though, The Beatles will sell for a longer period of time and at a higher price point than gh5 going forward. I think #4 is respectable given the audience will be more casual.

Guitar Hero 5 is a solid game. It's fun and all has an okay setlist....

I'm just bored of the whole rock band "thing".

The Beatles game certainly has marketing:

1) It was timed to tie in with new remastered boxsets of the music, which meant it achieved one-sentence mentions on mainstream news. (That's one sentence more than any other video game has got for the last six months or so.)

2) There's a big stand of the game right near the entrance of my local supermarket, presumably that isn't a one-off. I don't recall seeing that done very often for video games either, usually it's just DVDs that get that treatment.

I've seen no advertising or media mentions whatsoever for Guitar Hero 5 (I don't have a TV so there were probably TV ads - but that's just standard).

I wonder if the problem is, frankly, the Beatles. At very least, it's kind of amusing that not only is the Beatles brand no longer 'bigger than Jesus' but it's not even bigger than Guitar Hero...

Is that a UK thing? I've imported both my DLC and WT songs, but I live in Norway.

Bought Guitar Hero 5 and DiRT 2 last friday and have been enjoying both very much.

I hate to tell you, but people buy Madden every single year. Millions of people. Just because it's annualized doesn't mean there isn't any interest in it.

The difference between Madden and Guitar Hero is that there is only one Madden every year. But when they release a new Guitar Hero every 90 days, then it becomes ridiculous and needs to be stopped.

Consumers asked for 2 things last year and the year before. GH:M and to play gh1,2,3 songs in a full band. Why would activision deny that? Going forward though, who knows what they'll do. The fans are content with Metallica still and have just been asking for disparate bands to make the next game. There's no cohesive voice like the one that called out for Metallica.

I don't know what you're talking about, but my comment was referring to quality versus quantity.

Madden and quality are practically opposites.

They could always do a promo like.. buy Madden 10 and get Madden 11 for free...hahaha NEVER.

Be thankful it isn't, Buy madden 10 and get Madden 10 and a half for 50 percent off.

jarhead906 whined a question "Can you guys just stop buying this stuff please? It has become another Madden/NCAA."
Answer to jarhead906: No. I like it better than Rock Band.

Woz cried "The difference between Madden and Guitar Hero is that there is only one Madden every year. But when they release a new Guitar Hero every 90 days, then it becomes ridiculous and needs to be stopped."
........or you could organise a boycott! Just get all your like minded friends to never buy a Guitar Hero game again. That should make a difference to their sales and teach 'em what for....or not.

To all you Guitar Hero hating Rock Band snobs. It may be difficult to believe, but more people like Guitar Hero than Rock Band. This is proved by the sales figures, Rock Band as a brand is just as well known as guitar hero, but people just don't like it as much. FACT.

I for one like Rock Band, it's a solid game, and I do prefer Harmonix's direction with downloadable songs, and the song list on both RB and RB2 (not that we'd know about RB2 in AUS EA you CU%TS) is better, in my opinion.

Game play is where it is at. Guitar Hero is better to me. Hammer ons in RB have never worked very well (the timiming seems to float about, never quite sure when to hit the damn things) something that made me play more Guitar Hero. I know I was right, they just patched the feature.

In my opinion the note charts are better in Guitar Hero especially on Expert.

I know 95% of Rock Band Fanbois just choked on there own bile, but yes I believe Guitar Hero has better note charts than Rock Band.

All in all just play the one you like (or both, I do), pull your dick out of you fanboi mates ear and let go of the hate, unless you redirect it at fanbois, that's allowed.

The Beatles vs. Guitar Hero


hmmm....

Nope, Beatles RB has been very heavily pushed here in the UK. There's a poster for it in the bus stop at the end of my street..

Hey, atleast you guys have RB2 on the Wi....oh.
Well, atleast the game is out in Austra...oh
You can always buy RB2 instrum...oh.

EA fucking sucks.

As an American, I feel bad for you guys. If I was in change of EA, I'd make the releases worldwide. It's pure bullshit how poorly they treat everyone outside of North America. They only did a worldwide release of The Beatles: Rock Band because Apple Corps. pressured them into it. If they had the opprotunity, they wouldn't have made it a worldwide release. Why? I don't know. Apparently EA hates money. Rock Band would probably have a bigger market share in rhythm games if PAL regions didn't have to wait so long for new regions.

Hell, if I remember correctly, Guitar Hero: World Tour came out BEFORE Rock Band 1 in Austrailia. That's just pure bullshit.

It's understandable for outside countries to not like Rock Band for their release dates.

Americans got RB2 before some countries got the first RB. If there's one spot the RB series needs to improve on, it's distribution.

Neversoft went into a board room after making GH:M, put a copy of GH:WT on the projector, and said "What the fuck did we did we do right?". After the 15 minutes of awkward silence, they decided to make a good game this time.

Its not that its a bad game its the fact that if they took more than four months to make it, it would be a great game.

Why does that bug people so much if ur not interested in a game ignore it and let those who do enjoy it have their fun

But if people don't care about the quality of games won't that lead to a decline in the quality of games across the board?

And then we'll have another dark age in video gaming like the one that followed ET...

Im not saying game quality should go down just that if u dont like a franchise dont go crazy when a new game comes out

I was just adding to BxGT's comment by saying that if developers get sloppy and churn out unpolished iterations of popular games it lowers the bar and creates a bad trend.

It's all these recent unpolished iterations of GH that have turned me off it and it's not something I'm willing to ignore (like you think I should). I'm willing to kick up a fuss because I'd actually like to see Neversoft lift their game a little.

I want to be interested in GH titles again, but they're not making it easy.

As much as I have tried to defend GH games over time, I will say this. The hatred of GH:WT that so many have is what prompted Neversoft to make GH5 so much better than any other full band Guitar Hero game. And for that, I thank you all.

GH5 is actually a worthy competitor to Rock Band now. GH just needs more songs, as their 3-pack a week strategy will never catch up to Rock Band. They need more albums, more giant variety weeks, and 6 packs to catch up to RB.

I think another reason people hate on GH is because its become a very apparent materialization of Bobby Kotick's infamous comment:

"With respect to the franchises that don't have the potential to be EXPLOITED every year across every platform with clear sequel potential that can meet our objectives of over time becoming $100 million plus franchises, that's a strategy that has worked very well for us."

His stance is clearly not one committed to pushing the envelope of gaming or evolving it in any way, and GH came to fulfill that prophecy for a while. I'm glad that Neversoft at least had the pride to reinvigorate the series despite the message from above to just use cruise control.

Bobby Kotick is the man behind all of this mess.

I think GH didn't improve until GH5 solely because Neversoft never had any time to make it right. They went straight from GH3 to Aerosmith, Aerosmith to GH:WT, and WT to Metallica. All they could really do was add things ontop of the GH3 engine which was broken enough (as it was their first rhythm game)

The decision to give Smash Hits to Beenox was probably the best decision that could have been made for the GH Franchise. Neversoft had a good amount of time to really iron out the details on GH5, and put as much effort into is as they could, without worrying about any other projects. The side releases will hinder the main releases if Neversoft has to keep making them.

Given the recent decline in intrest, Activision needs to stop asking for more GH titles every year. At this point, I just want a maximum of two releases a year, not four plus a handheld game.

The On Tour franchise is pretty much dead, since Nintendo killed it.
There aren't many more epic bands left to make a game on (and the ones that are left don't give out their music...Led Zeppelin.).

Really, they can either make another Smash Hits game, or a decade/genre based game. That's all they have left in their sidegame catalog. I think we will see a decline in the number of GH games next year.

You almost got me. Should have used something else then Nickelback. "Hannah Montana" wouldn't give you away.

hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha....haha..ha..ha..... oh shit you're serious :|

One is the combined all-format charts, whilst the one you linked to splits the different formats of each game into separate entries.
Whilst Dirt 2 on 360 outsold everything, the Sales of Guitar Hero 5 on all formats combined outsold the sales of Dirt 2 on all formats combined.

Ah, that makes sense, thanks. I prefer the other one because it doesn't list Guitar Hero on top. Anything but Guitar Hero.

er... damn comment system.

I found that the feel of the game is just so much better than the WT-era games.

-They got rid of the distracting rope that held together tapping notes.
-The interface isn't trying to hard to be silly and over the top. For the most part, it's actually streamlined and good.
-The Gameplay interface unlike any other guitar hero game yet. So streamlined at good looking. No silly "Rock Meters" and star power bulbs. Everything is easy to understand.
-The Band Lobby is universal, and you can access all modes of the game from it. (Except party play, but that is just from booting it up/main menu.)
-Extras are accessable from the lobby.
-Vocals gameplay now has a "pie" and you can actually see how well you are doing on a phrase.
-The graphics look so much better. Not only is everyone less cartoony, but the effects on the screen prevent you from seeing flaws. Unlike WT, it's not just raw models in a venue. There's pretty blur effects and dynamic lighting (Took a cue from RB, much needed)

I could go on and on about how gameplay wise and visually, the game is hands down the best Neversoft era GH yet. Now music wise, that's up to the listener.