Rock Band 3’s opening week saw only 7386 units sold, ranking 26th in the UK all formats chart. That’s 5318 Xbox 360, 1555 PS3 and 295 Wii copies.
By comparison Activision’s Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock did extremely better as it reportedly cleared 86k copies its opening week and landed 6th in the UK chart, before descending the ranks and falling out of the top 20.
”It’s possible that sales of other games in the category are down because people are waiting to spend their money on Rock Band 3. That’s what I hope anyway!” said Rock Band 3 project director Daniel Sussman last week.
It seems the ‘golden age’ of the music genre game is in sharp decline as people are just sick of plastic peripherals junking up our retail space, and the same old songs. Earlier in the year Harmonix’s Alex Rigopulos said it hadn’t ”reached its peak” - oops.
