$60m Beatles Rock Band bonanza in September
Were The Beatles worth the huge advance paid by MTV and Harmonix for the rights to make The Beatles: Rock Band? It’s looking likely.
The game sold 595,000 copies in September according to NPD Group – a figure that includes hardware+game and game-only bundles. NPD and analyst Wedbush Morgan now say the average selling price was $100.
That means $59-$60 million of revenues in September alone – 9% of all games revenue that month.
In other marvellous music game news, two companies – Altec Lansing and Polk Audio – have launched dedicated stage monitors for use with console music games. We just hope they go up to 11…
Tags: Guitar Hero, Rock Band, the beatles
October 26th, 2009 at 1:34 pm
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