Guitar Hero World Tour Outsells Rock Band 2:1 in 2008

popular != best

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This isn't surprising. Guitar Hero has been riding almost solely on its brand name since Harmonix left. However, anyone I know who got WT were pretty disappointed, and these were people who liked GH3 more than RB1.

And still no Euro RB2 drums. :( I am so close to just grabbing the GH:WT ones FFS, even if the cymbals get on my nerves.

I agree, RB >GH, Activission are money grubbing sequel whores running perfectly good franchises into the ground while ignoring possible new ones (Brutal Legend, Ghostbusters,etc.), etc. I do feel that it is an injustice that the superior game isn't trumping the impostor, but there are a lot of things EA/MTV could have done to better their chances. First of all, a simultaneous release across consoles would have helped (and really the whole 1 month exclusivity on XBOX 360 was stupid, Microsoft), also, touting that it was from the developers of Guitar Hero 1 and 2 would have helped educate the masses (Activision can oppose to the phrase "the creators of GH 1/2", but they can't deny the fact that at least Harmonix Developed those games). But I think where they really shot themselves in the foot was the lack of prominent advertising for one of RB2's greatest advantages over the competitor, backwards compatibility. I don't mean bc to refer to RB1 instruments being compatible with RB2 and vice versa, I mean the fact that all DLC for RB1 could be played in RB2. Also, in one of the most customer friendly acts I've seen from a publisher, you had the ability to import all songs from the RB1 disc to your hard drive (at least in the 360 and PS3 versions) for use in RB2. That last feature could have moved at least game (not bundle) sales to people who had bought RB1 but were reluctant to buy RB2. Had more people known that they could just do that and trade in their old RB1 disc at Gamestop or similar store, I could guarantee sales would have jumped by at least a considerable margin. Really, the only people who knew about this feature were hardcore gamers who frequent gaming sites or diehard RB gamers. A lot of people I know who bought both RB1 and RB2 were shocked when I mentioned it to them. Anyway, pity.

I <3 my GH:WT, although I haven't played around with RB2 very much. I know most people here hate on GH:WT, but I know plenty of people that have it and love it.

Perhaps they would have seen better sale figures if they fucking released Rockband 1/2 in Australia/Rest of the world at the same time. Oh well - piracy is always an option I guess.

Wow, that's really too bad. I have both games and RB2 is a better game IMO. It also has way more music available.

Of what versions though?

I purchased both. GH:WT was clearly the weaker of the two games. Even weaker then the first RB.

The game part of it has terrible feedback for what you are actually doing and the sound has never worked correctly in GH:WT for me.

Based on PS2 comparison at least.

How often do you see a GHWT commercial compared to Rockband? I don't know if I've ever seen the latter but there are definitely a ton of the former.

BTW, for those that do have GHWT, there are two limited-time free Bruce Springsteen tracks to be had this week. "Born to Run" and something else (off his new album, IIRC.)

This is only because the GH brand is better known. GH:WT is a terrible game, you can't even compare it to Rock Band.

For comparison, however, I believe the breakdown last year between GH3 and RB1 was 3:1 in GH's favor. In other words, RB is catching up.

I would like to see the comparison made with download sales for songs factored in. Pretty sure RB would blow them out of the water.

WTF. GH: WT is vastly inferior. :(

I don't know anyone who plays guitar hero but yet everyone I know who likes these games plays Rock Band. Fuck, next month our store is having game night and we are having "Battle of the Bands" in Rock Band.

I wonder if it would have made a different if they could have plastered "FROM THE CREATORS OF GUITAR HERO 1 & 2" On all Rock Band boxes so the generally oblivious video game purchasing populous would know what the fuck.

Also considering that in 4th quarter if you went into a Best Buy, Wal-mart or Target you couldn't find RB2 in the store for the mountains of GH:WT boxes, it's not surprising they did quite well in sales.

It also outsucked it 2:1

i played the WT PS2 version of my brothers and I found the game to feel extremely amatuerish compared to the quality of my RB2 [360]. Granted they are different consoles, but the gameplay itself felt odd and clunky to me. the only feature I think is decent is the 'strum' notes where you strum the long notes in WT to hold them all down. I dunno how else to explain it.

I love my nearly 300 RB songs as well.

haha they wont make that mistake again