Philippe Dauman, Viacom’s CEO, has said during a recent Goldman Sachs conference call that The Beatles: Rock Band sales have blown past ”internal expectations” they had.
It’s ”been terrific,” and they shifted 25 percent of their inventory the first week. The music game delivers ”in all respects” and Viacom expect it to continue performing. Bigger than Jesus?
”It’s been terrific. The sales have exceeded our internal expectations. In the first week we’ve sold about 25% of our inventory, and we’ve had tremendous excitement around this game,” said Dauman, reports IndustryGamers.
”The reviews have been incredible… It really is a work of art. The game delivers in all respects and we think it’s going to have legs,” he continued, adding, ”It’s selling well across all platforms (Xbox 360, PS3, and Wii), and in fact the pricing change that was made on PlayStation has helped sales on that platform.”
”And with The Beatles there’s a lot of built-in promotion with the release of their music because they’re releasing Abbey Road next month, Sgt. Pepper after that and so forth.”
Surprisingly the special peripheral bundle kit is also going really fast, despite everyone tightening their wallets. ”The special limited edition set that we have priced at $249, with the Ringo drums, is selling really fast, and it looks like we’ll be selling out of that in November, so if any of you are interested in buying that you’d better hurry up,” he said.
It was thought things were going so hot for the Beatles videogame, what with news that Guitar Hero 5 had dominated the top spot in the UK charts the opening week of both titles.
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