Added by Jeff on Sept. 22, 2008
24 comments
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, relaxing at home.
With all the rumors swirling around surrounding some classic music from Australia's AC/DC making its way into Rock Band, it's only fitting that the game will finally be more-easily playable in the band's native land.
Electronic Arts has announced plans to bring Rock Band--that's the original Rock Band--to Australia on November 7. It will be made available on the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PlayStation 2, and Wii in a variety of instrument bundles. The full kit will sell for 250 Australian dollars. I believe that's somewhere around $275,000 United States funbucks.
Of course, here in the land of bank closures and awesomeness, we're all playing
Rock Band 2. Shouldn't they just pump out both games as a bundle in Australia so they can catch up all at once? After all, the original Rock Band is effectively worth around $10, if you consider its worth to be nothing more than a rental fee combined with the $5 needed to license its content into Rock Band 2.
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on Sept. 22, 2008
on Sept. 22, 2008
What is the excuse now? Be fair man...
on Sept. 22, 2008
If they did the 2-in-1 then at least the Aussies would have as much plastic crap as everybody else.
on Sept. 22, 2008
But what I am going to do is, get GH4, my friend will get rock band and I will import RB2 (I have a ps3, so luckily I am able to do so)
on Sept. 22, 2008
on Sept. 22, 2008
on Sept. 22, 2008
The release of Rock Band 1 and only Rock Band 1 means that Australia probably won't get the sequel until a year later. And that kinda sucks for them.
on Sept. 22, 2008
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Rock Band apparently isn't going to get much of a retail showing "down under" though. Some of the JB's and EB's i've talked to said they are only going to stock GH:WT
I can't help but like that EA is losing so much potential revenue for screwing over Australia - but I hope this doesn't make it look like we don't want rhythm games.
on Sept. 22, 2008
on Sept. 22, 2008
on Sept. 22, 2008
Does this mean that we have to have the old instruments that they have said themselves have problem?
Why not just give us RB and RB2 together bundled with the RB2 peripherals?
Maybe an Aussie version of the game...I'd love to play some AC/DC, Chisel, Powderfinger, Silverchair, Midnight Oil, Jet, etc.
on Sept. 22, 2008
on Sept. 22, 2008
EA doesn't care about black people...or Australia .
on Sept. 22, 2008
on Sept. 22, 2008
on Sept. 22, 2008
on Sept. 22, 2008
on Sept. 22, 2008
I can assure you that Rock Band is going to do well though. Australia is filled with noobs that go after whatever is advertised to them.
on Sept. 23, 2008
Actually no, theres China, a large portion of Asia that ISNT Japan, Brazil, south america, and in fact plenty of places that never see non pirate versions of most games.
on Sept. 23, 2008
How can Rock Band 1 compete with World Tour in Europe. Rock Band 1 will have 1 or 2 months head start on World Tour here in Europe? They are both the same price and if you pre-order World Tour you get a free 3rd party guitar controller. Rock Band in Europe as a franchise is going to sink faster than the titanic - FACT.
It's a no-brainer as far as I am concerned.
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