The Beatles: Rock Band DLC 'All You Need is Love' coming to PS3, Wii

that's what your mom said.

I hate to be cynical, but I think the only reason that proceeds went to charity is because Harmonix/MTV Games/EA already got their money from Microsoft's exclusivity deal. Now that they're not getting money from it, no proceeds (including Xbox 360 sales) will go to charity.

Yup. More would have been donated if it weren't exclusive, but I guess that's the point.

Even worse, for PS3 users, it's actually 6 months (9/9/09 to 3/4/10).

yea....its not that bad tho....I'm sure anyone who really WANTS that song will still buy it...

That's what I want to know.

Especially if it'd be "Revolver" or "Let It Be."

Everything is fair in love and war.

Love is a battlefield?

Exactly why I've passed on this. There is no good reason other than greed that the game should not have come flat out loaded with ALL the hits.

I see the game for 30 bells now at EB.

It also irks me that RB2 DLC cannot be brought over into the game, guess Ringo Wormo didn't want his avatar to be bashing out Black Magic by Slayer.

So pass, pass, pass for me.

Some people need to learn that there are other factors at play here. I'm sure in a perfect world The Beatles' entire discography would be able to fit onto a single disc, and it wouldn't cost Harmonix an arm and a leg to get the licenses.

However, here on Earth, things don't work that way. Companies can't just give things away, they need to make money in order to stay in existence. Harmonix put 45 Beatles songs on that disc - in comparison, every band-centric game Activision game has only had 25 songs by the band the game was named after. And, considering the fact that The Beatles are (NOT arguably) the biggest band of all time, the licenses for those songs must have cost a fortune.

Not to mention that there has not been a single track released as DLC for a Guitar Hero band-centric game, and the only DLC that was ever compatible with them was Death Magnetic, which is compatible with Guitar Hero: Metallica.

I, for one, have a huge amount of respect for how far Harmonix has pushed this genre forward. All Activision does is drag it back, stay in the past, while Harmonix created the guitar genre*, was the first to introduce regular DLC, made the transition into a full band, and now they have the Rock Band Network, ensuring that there will never be a lack of content for their games.




*Guitar Freaks doesn't count

"Companies can't just give things away, they need to make money in order to stay in existence"

I get free stuff from Nintendo all the time. In fact, when Metroid Prime 3 wouldn't work on my Wii, I called Nintendo and they sent me a new copy IMMEDIATELY, without even checking if I actually bought the game or if I was bullshitting about ownership.

@ rkrocks123 - best band of all time goes to Death, not The Beatles. See what I did there?

@ Nook -

I never claimed that The Beatles were the best band of all time...