We haven’t gotten much of an indication of how successful Harmonix’s recently launched Rock Band Network platform has been during its first few weeks in operation. I mean, we’d consider the Rock Band-ification of The Slip’s timeless Guitar Hero classic “Even Rats” to be a huge success, but we’re pretty sure they measure it in dollars and cents. RockBandAide recently did a bit of calculation and educated guesswork to come with the amount of cash the RBN has brought in so far — according to the site, Harmonix has grossed over $107,000 in sales from user-generated tracks alone.
RockBandAide also estimate that regular DLC has brought in roughly $161,000 in revenue on the 360 since the Network went live — a slightly larger sum, though the profit margin on Network tracks is supposedly much higher than that of regular DLC. The site also compiled the top 20 purchased RBN songs thus far, which we’ve posted after the jump. Keep in mind — these numbers aren’t official, but they’re the best we’ve got to go on thus far.
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Rock Band Network sales analyzed, top 20 songs calculated originally appeared on Joystiq on Sat, 20 Mar 2010 17:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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On the same conference call earlier this week in which it talked about its new rewards program, GameStop Executive VP of Merchandising, Tony Bartel, said that stores currently experiencing Wii and PlayStation 3 shortages probably won’t find relief very soon. While the retailer is always bugging Sony and Nintendo for more units, Bartel said that GameStop “could sell a lot more hardware than what we have on both the PS3 and Wii platform,” and that situation probably won’t change until early summer of this year.
He did say that the Wii is due for a re-supply first, but he believes that both Nintendo and Sony are “still scrambling to catch up from the surge” of the last holiday season. But a shortage like this isn’t unprecedented — as we get closer to summer, we’ll probably see new inventory appearing on shelves, ready to go home to a caring gamer.
GameStop: Console shortages likely not fixed until summer originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Great. We’re pretty certain Square Enix is going to make another one of these videos now. With sales of “more than one million units in North America over the first five days,” Square Enix has good reason for that smug look on its face. Taking into account European sales, Final Fantasy XIII has “recorded the largest first-week sales in franchise history.”
A number of factors undoubtedly contributed to the record-breaking success of the latest iteration of the JRPG series. Not only is it the first numbered Final Fantasy game on a current generation system, but it’s also the first game in the franchise to appear on two platforms — and two continents — simultaneously. Finally, it’s been nearly four years since the release of Final Fantasy XII on PS2. Fans were clearly hungry for a real Final Fantasy fix.
Luckily for Square Enix, there’s much, much more Final Fantasy in the works: Final Fantasy XIV is due this year and Final Fantasy Versus XIII should be ready by the time Square Enix is done counting all this money.
Final Fantasy XIII fastest selling game in franchise, Square Enix claims originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Not content to wait for March to end, EA went ahead and announced that “Battlefield: Bad Company 2 tops March sales charts.” The somewhat hasty press release goes on to explain that with 2.3 million copies sold so far, Bad Company 2 is “on pace” to be the top selling title in March 2010. It is already, according to EA, the best-selling March release yet, which lends credence to EA’s early claim of March dominance.
We look forward to seeing if this claim rings true at the end of the month, after Pokemon HeartGold and SoulSilver have had two weeks to sell. Or maybe that’s why why EA issued the “we won” press release now?
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 sells 2.3 million originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:23:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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NPD has released its monthly list of the top 20 PC games, and while Star Trek Online made a valiant showing in the month of its debut, landing at number two for the main game and number four for the collector’s edition, it was beaten in the end by the Sims 3: High End Loft Stuff (yes, “Stuff”) content pack. The Sims juggernaut of a brand continued to rock the top 20, claiming six spots total, and perennial favorite World of Warcraft continued to place almost all of its current editions on the list in three different spots.
Other big titles in February were Bioshock 2, the Everquest II: Sentinel’s Fate expansion, and Mass Effect 2. Aliens vs. Predator appeared at a miserable number 19, below something called the Mumbo Jumbo Assortment. Full list after the break. We’ll say this about PC game players: They know what they like, and they stick with it.
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Sims 3 expansion beats Star Trek Online in February’s PC top 20 originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 17 Mar 2010 05:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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There are plenty of reasons to be wary about buying expensive electronics over the internet. They could be forever lost to shipping accidents. You could have trust issues about purchasing items from faceless vendors. Or maybe you’re just addicted to instant gratification. If brick-and-mortar transactions are your preferred M.O., then you’ll be pleased to hear that the formerly Amazon-only 360 Elite Spring Bundle, which comes packaged with Forza Motorsport 3 and Halo 3: ODST, is now available at Gamestop for $299.99.
We can’t stress this enough — this is by far the best Xbox bundle ever to hit store shelves, so we suggest picking one up if you still find yourself sans 360. There’s no telling when the offer will cease to be … offered, but if we were to wager a guess, we’d say “around the start of the next temperate season.”
[Via Halo.Bungie.org]
Amazon’s Forza 3 and ODST 360 Elite bundle now available at Gamestop originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:40:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Microsoft’s Aaron Greenberg is thrilled with February’s NPD numbers, and for good reason. The Xbox 360 took the top spot in home console sales last month, despite not being a Wii. According to the NPD, it’s the first time this has happened since the Halo 3 launch in 2007.
BioShock 2 seems to have had something to do with the boost, with the Xbox 360 version topping the software charts (and the PS3 version absent from the top ten). Other notable software milestones: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is now the third best-selling game of all time, and Just Dance seems to have made a better pact with Satan than even Dante’s Inferno did. See the software top ten after the break.
-DS: 613K
191K (45%)
-360: 422K89K (27%)
-Wii: 398K
68K (-15%)
-PS3: 360K83K (30%)
-PSP: 133K33K (33%)
-PS2: 102K60K (143%)
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February NPD: Xbox 360 and BioShock 2 sales heat up originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:02:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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In a Japanese press release, Square Enix has announced that Final Fantasy XIII has shipped 5 million copies worldwide. Surprisingly, 3 million of those copies were shipped outside of Japan. Of course, Square Enix isn’t saying how many of those copies have been sold, so bear that in mind when marveling over these impressive numbers.
These 5 million XIIIs, according to the release, bring the total number of shipped games in the Final Fantasy series up to 96 million. How many of those were ports or remakes of the first Final Fantasy, we wonder?
Final Fantasy XIII ships 5 million copies originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:27:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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After you heard what we had to say about Final Fantasy XIII, you may very well now be itching to finally get your own hands all over the thirteenth entry in the FF series from Square Enix. Lucky for you, dearest reader, we’ve got news of a couple ways to save some dough on your purchase this week.
Target is offering a $10 gift card with purchase of either the Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3 version, while Amazon is offering a $10 pre-order incentive credit towards future video game purchases for both versions as well (oh, and also, the game costs $56.99 instead of $59.99, which is kinda nice). Sure, neither offers a free rideable chocobo or anything wonderful like that, but that $10 at Target could potentially buy pizza bagels. And did you know that when pizza’s on a bagel, you can apparently eat pizza at any time? Madness!
Source 1 – CAG
Source 2 – Target
Final Fantasy XIII deals to pounce on at Target and Amazon originally appeared on Joystiq on Sat, 06 Mar 2010 17:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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EA Sports Active for the Wii, the third-party publisher’s sweatier response to Nintendo’s best-seller Wii Fit, has earned the company $125 million. Gamasutra reports that at the conclusion of Electronic Arts’ fiscal year (which is at the end of this month), the company believes the product will be one of the “top 20-selling … Wii titles of all time.” Of course, with Nintendo’s dominance on its own platform, EA Sports Active is likely closer to the 20th position than the first.
Despite some hiccups, EA Sports head Peter Moore says that he and the EA brass are still “great believers in the Wii.” He notes that the publisher has seen the most success on the platform with “specific experiences that are built around that consumer.” He then announced EA Sports Mall Walker … kidding!
EA Sports Active earned publisher $125 million originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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