The Beatles: Rock Band heading to Wii this September
Thursday, March 5th, 2009 at 1:42pm by Jake
Harmonix, MTV, and Apple Corps. have announced their newest entry in the Rock Band line, The Beatles: Rock Band, which will be arriving on all major consoles, including Wii, on September 9th, 2009. You can pick up the entire Beatles themed band kit for $249.99, guitar kit for $99.99, or the stand alone software for $59.99 (most likely $49.99 for Wii owners). MTV has confirmed that The Beatles: Rock Band will be compatible with all current instruments including Guitar Hero: World Tour sets.
Anyone else already standing in line for a preorder?
March 5th, 2009 at 2:07 pm
it’s getting to the point where people will pretty much pay $50 for the privilege of tapping their fingers along to an album and the industry calls it an expansion pack.
metallica, acdc, beatles, aerosmith.. everybody’s getting their own cash grab add-on to what’s already an expensive video game (including controllers here obviously).
bah, i say. bah. like a crotchety old man. bah.
March 5th, 2009 at 2:15 pm
@tylor:
I agree with you, to a point. If anyone deserves a stand-alone game, it’s the Beatles. They have enough great songs to fill an entire game on their own. Heck, one of my favorite albums is the Beatles’ “1″. It’s just a compilation of all of their #1 hits… and it’s incredible.
March 5th, 2009 at 4:16 pm
yeah, if this was anything but the Beatles I would be bah-humbugging with you. But I have to say….it’s the Beatles, man…
March 5th, 2009 at 4:27 pm
The beatles are good and all. But good music doesn’t necessarily translate to good rock band music. but hey i mean if you can get the rights why not?
March 5th, 2009 at 4:53 pm
dude the beatles have all the good music and they should defintly
be on rock band…
actualy yesterday i was thinking why dont the beatles have rock band
but now they do!
March 5th, 2009 at 9:57 pm
Beastie Boys.
(it won’t happen, but I will continue to dream.)
March 5th, 2009 at 10:06 pm
I thought this wasn’t supposed to have the “Rock Band” brand attached to it! This is bullshit, man!
March 5th, 2009 at 10:19 pm
^
What part of the game’s title “The Beatles: Rock Band” doesn’t link to the rock band name?
March 5th, 2009 at 11:55 pm
This is all good if you wanna keep playing with your parents.
I can’t myself ‘Rockin-Out’ to The Beatles. I don’t think there’s too much you can do with guitar simplicity, compared to the likes of Metalica, and the classic ’70s stuff we currently have.
But for those who don’t share my opinion. Have fun Rockin to Yellow Submarine.
March 6th, 2009 at 1:33 am
This is rubbish if you ask me, downloadable content is the norm for rock band and GH, why not just release it as that? I don’t want to be changing disc when I want to play to beatles!
I like the beatles as much as the next guy, but this is just silly, just release the songs as downloadable content…
March 6th, 2009 at 9:06 am
Yes, they say they will release all the songs we would want via DLC. But then, they want to sell more discs to make more money. I wonder how this will end.
March 7th, 2009 at 8:23 pm
“downloadable content is the norm for rock band and GH…”
Say that to the 7 GH titles coming THIS year including Metallica and Greatest Hits, and I haven’t even mentioned RB but they know how to control themselves.
March 8th, 2009 at 6:20 am
This game could actually make me switch from Guitar Hero to Rock Band. I love The Beatles and think this will make an awesome game.
March 9th, 2009 at 12:43 pm
i heart the beatles too. i say put their stuff up as DLC and stop clogging store shelves with so called ‘expansions’.
what if i just wanna rock to hey jude? i’ve gotta buy the crap like ’she loves you yea yea yea’ etc… in the same package.
there’s early beatles and late beatles, and i friggin hate the early beatles. that’s why i vote DLC and maintain my crotchety old man status.