Rock Band 2 PS3, PS2 and Wii release dates!

EAUK_Adroit · 27-02-2009, 10:21 AM

MTV Games, Harmonix and EA announce Rock Band®2 coming to the UK for PlayStation®3, PlayStation®2 on 27th March and Wii on 24th April

Rock Band Instrument Edition Bundles Now Available at new Price Points

GUILDFORD, UK – February 27, 2009 – Harmonix, the world’s premier music video game development company, and MTV Games, a part of Viacom’s MTV Networks (NYSE: VIA, VIA.B), along with distribution partner Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS), today announced that its critically acclaimed music videogame Rock Band® 2 will begin shipping in Europe for the PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system and the PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system beginning the week of 23rd March. Rock Band 2 will also ship for the Wii™ home video game console from Nintendo beginning week of 20th April.

Rock Band 2 software will retail for £49.99 on the PLAYSTATION 3, £29.99 for the PlayStation 2 and £39.99 for the Wii. Rock Band 2 is also currently available on the Xbox 360® videogame and entertainment system for £49.99.
Rock Band® instrument peripherals are also now available at new price points:

• Stand alone guitars will retail at £39.99
• Stand alone drums will retail for £49.99
• An “Instrument Edition” including drums, guitar and microphone will retail for £89.99

In addition to the new price points, consumers will now also be able to purchase the Rock Band Instrument Edition and Rock Band software together for £119.99 for the PLAYSTATION 3 and Xbox 360 and for £109.99 for the PlayStation 2 and Wii.

Rock Band 2 revolutionizes music gaming with the ability to export most of the songs from the original Rock Band disc , Online World Tour, daily Battle-Of-The Band Tournaments, No Fail Mode, and a real Drum Trainer. Rock Band 2’s massive list of innovations also includes the ability to export your in-game band avatar to the internet and order custom Rock Band merchandise including apparel and figures.

Rock Band 2 features the largest music catalogue of any music-based videogame to date with more than 100 songs on the Rock Band 2 soundtrack and an unrivaled blend of classic and new artists including AC/DC, Guns ‘N Roses, Bob Dylan, Pearl Jam, Motorhead and more!

Gamers can also preview and download new music from the Rock Band online music store, which currently offers complete albums with more than 500 tracks, with new content added weekly. To date, users have purchased more than 36 million tracks from the Rock Band online store. A complete list of tracks available for download is available at The Music // Rock Band®

MusePT · 27-02-2009, 11:24 AM

Finally Adroit!!!

Can you tell me one thing, the stand alone instruments are RB2 or RB1 models?

"• Stand alone guitars will retail at £39.99
• Stand alone drums will retail for £49.99
• An “Instrument Edition” including drums, guitar and microphone will retail for £89.99"

I guess that these are RB1 models

"In addition to the new price points, consumers will now also be able to purchase the Rock Band Instrument Edition and Rock Band software together for £119.99 for the PLAYSTATION 3 and Xbox 360 and for £109.99 for the PlayStation 2 and Wii."

And these will be RB2 models, am I right?

thanks for the good news!

Ultim8Lord · 27-02-2009, 12:30 PM

Ooh... Alright, 20th april.
That was... how much months to get this kind of date ?
Ok then. Get your game and try to put it in your... you see.
I'll stick to GH.
Gh:M ftw.

Good luck.

StitchRFC · 28-02-2009, 02:07 AM

Woo! I can't wait now! Thanks for the announcement Adroit!

DaitoX · 28-02-2009, 06:35 PM

Since this announcement doesn't mention it, I guess I will ask again.

How about some info about the RB2 instruments?

Or

If I import a set will you provide me with support in europe?

I mean, I already imported the game, this whole regional launches used to work just great 20 years ago. But now a days is just a silly concept and I wont wait to get a game. Unless ofcourse you absolutely wanted GH:WT to get more sales in europe.

Seriously, the lack of information is the most annoying part of this. I just want a word on the RB2 instruments.

Perci101 · 01-03-2009, 10:12 PM

Does anyone know when they're gonna be releasin the complete rock band 2 bundle for the xbox 360 in the UK?

MusePT · 01-03-2009, 11:13 PM

I want to know that too... please someone!

Cheshley · 02-03-2009, 03:03 PM

I'd also like to know if the bundle for Wii is the new RB2 instruments?

Becky · 02-03-2009, 03:08 PM

Finally.

MusePT · 02-03-2009, 04:47 PM

Please tell me this isn't right:

" Following Friday's announcement of new pricing for Rock Band instruments in Europe, EA has confirmed to Eurogamer that the prices apply to the original Rock Band 1 instruments only. "We're introducing new, low price points for the original Rock Band hardware to make starting a band more affordable than ever," said the publisher in a statement.
There are plans to release the improved Rock Band 2 instruments in Europe, but they're not confirmed yet, and neither is the price. "We're also working on getting Rock Band 2 hardware to Europe and we hope to have more news soon," to quote the release.
The new, lower pricing for Rock Band instruments will come into effect alongside the March and April release dates for the PS2, PS3 and Wii versions of Rock Band 2.
Standalone drums will cost GBP 49.99, guitars GBP 39.99 and a full "instrument edition" set will set you back GBP 89.99. There will be official bundles of the hardware with Rock Band 2, too - these come in at GBP 119.99 for PS3 and Xbox 360 and GBP 109.99 for PS2 and Wii."

in New prices are for old Rock Band kit News // None /// Eurogamer - Games Reviews, News and More

are you guys really going to MAKE BUNDLES WITH THE RB1 INSTRUMENTS AND THE RB2 SOFTWARE????

This is absolutely RIDICULOUS and looks more and more like you think Europeans are Stupid Morons!!! Stop trying to shove us old and outdated hardware and trying to pass it as good deals!!!

Sells us FULL BUNDLES WITH THE RB2 INSTRUMENTS!!!

I understand that you are trying to clearout the standalone instrument stock, but going all the way to make FULL BUNDLE KITS with OLD INSTRUMENTS is a bit too much!!!

Perci101 · 02-03-2009, 06:00 PM

If anyone has any idea it would be much appreciated?

MusePT · 02-03-2009, 06:15 PM

any idea of what?? they have confirmed to eurogamer that it's all the RB1 instruments!! It's Shocking!!!!

DaitoX · 02-03-2009, 09:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MusePT

any idea of what?? they have confirmed to eurogamer that it's all the RB1 instruments!! It's Shocking!!!!

It is? I already said so in my post before eurogamer got this "news" from EA.

They need to release info about the RB2 hardware, atleast something. At the moment it's like they absolutely want to do everything they can to lose sales to GH:WT in europe.

tatsuyauesugi · 03-03-2009, 12:37 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MusePT

"There are plans to release the improved Rock Band 2 instruments in Europe, but they're not confirmed yet, and neither is the price. "We're also working on getting Rock Band 2 hardware to Europe and we hope to have more news soon," to quote the release.

Translation: "Our plans are wait and see if those anxious europeans can't resist anymore and end buying our new lower pricing and lower quality RB1 instruments in enough quantity so we can delay the launch of the RB2 ones until we clean house".

TonyBraxton · 03-03-2009, 10:36 AM

I'd like to add my voice of disgruntlement about this announcement to this thread. I haven't waited this long to buy the instruments because I couldn't afford them, I've waited because the superior hardware had been announced and I decided I wanted to wait for that. While it's good that the instruments are now at a more comparable price point to the USA, it can't hide that this is basically an announcement of their budget re-release, and it's not going to change my plan.

Oh, and to answer MusePT's question about the bundles being RB2 software with RB1 instruments: I missed it first time too, but if you read the press release again you'll see that every other paragraph talks about "Rock Band 2" but that one specifically says "the Rock Band Instrument Edition and Rock Band software" - it's a bundle for the original game, not the new one.

shikarnomaru · 04-03-2009, 03:48 PM

I had my voice too.
I will just be patient.
Europe is not a warehouse to put their old hardware!

Hermes23 · 04-03-2009, 06:15 PM

You're right, it was an old 80's band

MrGiggly · 06-04-2009, 07:42 PM

Really taking the lalalalalala expecting us to buy RB1 instruments with RB2

Taken this long for RB2 to release just to milk RB1 to the full in europe. Now another cheap tactic to rake in more cash at the expense of the customer base.

Remember the days when EA were at the cutting edge of software (yes that was an awful long time ago on the C64). Now its simply about how much wonga you can extract from folk.

Sick of it EA, suck my root !!!!

Cheshley · 06-04-2009, 09:32 PM

Ditto. This sucks big time.
I've waited this long for RB2 on Wii because EA wanted to milk the exclusivity deal with Microsoft, and now they want to palm off their excess stock of old hardware on me and tell me I'm on to a good deal!!!!!!
RB2 is released on my birthday and I was going to get the full package but now they can take a running jump.

DaitoX · 13-04-2009, 03:26 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MrGiggly

Really taking the lalalalalala expecting us to buy RB1 instruments with RB2

Taken this long for RB2 to release just to milk RB1 to the full in europe. Now another cheap tactic to rake in more cash at the expense of the customer base.

Remember the days when EA were at the cutting edge of software (yes that was an awful long time ago on the C64). Now its simply about how much wonga you can extract from folk.

Sick of it EA, suck my root !!!!

You know what's even better: In the Netherlands the promised price cut on the rb1 stuff did not even happen.

jj8523 · 20-04-2009, 09:56 PM

Hi EA, I noticed all the stores are now saying release of Rock Band 2 on the Wii as 15 May. Has it been delayed? If so, is it likely to be delayed further?

Thanks

EAUK_Aurora · 20-04-2009, 10:00 PM

As far as I am aware it is still on Friday. If I hear anything that contradicts that then we shall post it though.

jj8523 · 21-04-2009, 07:43 PM

Thanks Aurora. Every single retailer I've contacted has said 15 May so it doesn't look like it will be available for purchase come Friday.

no1phil · 21-04-2009, 08:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by EAUK_Aurora

As far as I am aware it is still on Friday. If I hear anything that contradicts that then we shall post it though.

hi ea yeah all the retailers and online sites i have visited also have rb2 down for 15th may now, could you confirm asap if the date has been pushed back to may or if it will still be released this fri as really looking fwd to this game. Also if it has been delayed what is the reason?

no1phil · 23-04-2009, 02:54 AM

ok getting very annoyed now is this game getting released on fri or is it gonna get delayed and if so why the delay all retailers still have it as may please tell us this is not true ea looking so fwd to this and have a games night comming up.

27-02-2009, 10:21 AM	#1 (permalink)
EAUK_Adroit Community Representative Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: UK Age: 22 Gender: Male Posts: 23,483	Rock Band 2 PS3, PS2 and Wii release dates! MTV Games, Harmonix and EA announce Rock Band®2 coming to the UK for PlayStation®3, PlayStation®2 on 27th March and Wii on 24th April Rock Band Instrument Edition Bundles Now Available at new Price Points GUILDFORD, UK – February 27, 2009 – Harmonix, the world’s premier music video game development company, and MTV Games, a part of Viacom’s MTV Networks (NYSE: VIA, VIA.B), along with distribution partner Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS), today announced that its critically acclaimed music videogame Rock Band® 2 will begin shipping in Europe for the PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system and the PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system beginning the week of 23rd March. Rock Band 2 will also ship for the Wii™ home video game console from Nintendo beginning week of 20th April. Rock Band 2 software will retail for £49.99 on the PLAYSTATION 3, £29.99 for the PlayStation 2 and £39.99 for the Wii. Rock Band 2 is also currently available on the Xbox 360® videogame and entertainment system for £49.99. Rock Band® instrument peripherals are also now available at new price points: • Stand alone guitars will retail at £39.99 • Stand alone drums will retail for £49.99 • An “Instrument Edition” including drums, guitar and microphone will retail for £89.99 In addition to the new price points, consumers will now also be able to purchase the Rock Band Instrument Edition and Rock Band software together for £119.99 for the PLAYSTATION 3 and Xbox 360 and for £109.99 for the PlayStation 2 and Wii. Rock Band 2 revolutionizes music gaming with the ability to export most of the songs from the original Rock Band disc , Online World Tour, daily Battle-Of-The Band Tournaments, No Fail Mode, and a real Drum Trainer. Rock Band 2’s massive list of innovations also includes the ability to export your in-game band avatar to the internet and order custom Rock Band merchandise including apparel and figures. Rock Band 2 features the largest music catalogue of any music-based videogame to date with more than 100 songs on the Rock Band 2 soundtrack and an unrivaled blend of classic and new artists including AC/DC, Guns ‘N Roses, Bob Dylan, Pearl Jam, Motorhead and more! Gamers can also preview and download new music from the Rock Band online music store, which currently offers complete albums with more than 500 tracks, with new content added weekly. To date, users have purchased more than 36 million tracks from the Rock Band online store. A complete list of tracks available for download is available at The Music // Rock Band® __________________ Adroit Community Representative Electronic Arts Currently playing: FIFA 10 and Need For Speed: Shift Looking forward to: Left 4 Dead 2 PSN: EAUK_Adroit \|\| Gamertag: EAUK Adroit

27-02-2009, 11:24 AM	#2 (permalink)
MusePT Rookie Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Portugal Age: 33 Gender: Male Posts: 24	Finally Adroit!!! Can you tell me one thing, the stand alone instruments are RB2 or RB1 models? "• Stand alone guitars will retail at £39.99 • Stand alone drums will retail for £49.99 • An “Instrument Edition” including drums, guitar and microphone will retail for £89.99" I guess that these are RB1 models "In addition to the new price points, consumers will now also be able to purchase the Rock Band Instrument Edition and Rock Band software together for £119.99 for the PLAYSTATION 3 and Xbox 360 and for £109.99 for the PlayStation 2 and Wii." And these will be RB2 models, am I right? thanks for the good news! __________________

28-02-2009, 02:07 AM	#4 (permalink)
StitchRFC Rookie Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Reading, UK Gender: Male Posts: 86	Woo! I can't wait now! Thanks for the announcement Adroit! __________________

28-02-2009, 06:35 PM	#5 (permalink)
DaitoX Rookie Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 5	Since this announcement doesn't mention it, I guess I will ask again. How about some info about the RB2 instruments? Or If I import a set will you provide me with support in europe? I mean, I already imported the game, this whole regional launches used to work just great 20 years ago. But now a days is just a silly concept and I wont wait to get a game. Unless ofcourse you absolutely wanted GH:WT to get more sales in europe. Seriously, the lack of information is the most annoying part of this. I just want a word on the RB2 instruments. Last edited by DaitoX; 01-03-2009 at 12:10 AM..

01-03-2009, 11:13 PM	#7 (permalink)
MusePT Rookie Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Portugal Age: 33 Gender: Male Posts: 24	I want to know that too... please someone! __________________

27-02-2009, 12:30 PM	#3 (permalink)
Ultim8Lord Hi, I'm New! Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 1	Ooh... Alright, 20th april. That was... how much months to get this kind of date ? Ok then. Get your game and try to put it in your... you see. I'll stick to GH. Gh:M ftw. Good luck.

01-03-2009, 10:12 PM	#6 (permalink)
Perci101 Rookie Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: UK Age: 16 Gender: Male Posts: 3	Does anyone know when they're gonna be releasin the complete rock band 2 bundle for the xbox 360 in the UK?

02-03-2009, 03:03 PM	#8 (permalink)
Cheshley Rookie Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 8	I'd also like to know if the bundle for Wii is the new RB2 instruments?

02-03-2009, 03:08 PM	#9 (permalink)
Becky EA Veteran Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Birmingham Age: 18 Gender: Female Posts: 30,675	Finally. __________________ last.fm twitter

02-03-2009, 04:47 PM	#10 (permalink)
MusePT Rookie Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Portugal Age: 33 Gender: Male Posts: 24	Please tell me this isn't right: " Following Friday's announcement of new pricing for Rock Band instruments in Europe, EA has confirmed to Eurogamer that the prices apply to the original Rock Band 1 instruments only. "We're introducing new, low price points for the original Rock Band hardware to make starting a band more affordable than ever," said the publisher in a statement. There are plans to release the improved Rock Band 2 instruments in Europe, but they're not confirmed yet, and neither is the price. "We're also working on getting Rock Band 2 hardware to Europe and we hope to have more news soon," to quote the release. The new, lower pricing for Rock Band instruments will come into effect alongside the March and April release dates for the PS2, PS3 and Wii versions of Rock Band 2. Standalone drums will cost GBP 49.99, guitars GBP 39.99 and a full "instrument edition" set will set you back GBP 89.99. There will be official bundles of the hardware with Rock Band 2, too - these come in at GBP 119.99 for PS3 and Xbox 360 and GBP 109.99 for PS2 and Wii." in New prices are for old Rock Band kit News // None /// Eurogamer - Games Reviews, News and More are you guys really going to MAKE BUNDLES WITH THE RB1 INSTRUMENTS AND THE RB2 SOFTWARE???? This is absolutely RIDICULOUS and looks more and more like you think Europeans are Stupid Morons!!! Stop trying to shove us old and outdated hardware and trying to pass it as good deals!!! Sells us FULL BUNDLES WITH THE RB2 INSTRUMENTS!!! I understand that you are trying to clearout the standalone instrument stock, but going all the way to make FULL BUNDLE KITS with OLD INSTRUMENTS is a bit too much!!! __________________

02-03-2009, 06:00 PM	#11 (permalink)
Perci101 Rookie Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: UK Age: 16 Gender: Male Posts: 3	If anyone has any idea it would be much appreciated?

02-03-2009, 06:15 PM	#12 (permalink)
MusePT Rookie Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Portugal Age: 33 Gender: Male Posts: 24	any idea of what?? they have confirmed to eurogamer that it's all the RB1 instruments!! It's Shocking!!!! __________________

03-03-2009, 10:36 AM	#15 (permalink)
TonyBraxton Hi, I'm New! Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 1	I'd like to add my voice of disgruntlement about this announcement to this thread. I haven't waited this long to buy the instruments because I couldn't afford them, I've waited because the superior hardware had been announced and I decided I wanted to wait for that. While it's good that the instruments are now at a more comparable price point to the USA, it can't hide that this is basically an announcement of their budget re-release, and it's not going to change my plan. Oh, and to answer MusePT's question about the bundles being RB2 software with RB1 instruments: I missed it first time too, but if you read the press release again you'll see that every other paragraph talks about "Rock Band 2" but that one specifically says "the Rock Band Instrument Edition and Rock Band software" - it's a bundle for the original game, not the new one.

04-03-2009, 03:48 PM	#16 (permalink)
shikarnomaru Hi, I'm New! Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 1	I had my voice too. I will just be patient. Europe is not a warehouse to put their old hardware!

04-03-2009, 06:15 PM	#17 (permalink)
Hermes23 Forum Guru Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: In my house Age: 91 Gender: Male Posts: 1,755	You're right, it was an old 80's band __________________ Everybody lies

06-04-2009, 07:42 PM	#18 (permalink)
MrGiggly Hi, I'm New! Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 1	Really taking the lalalalalala expecting us to buy RB1 instruments with RB2 Taken this long for RB2 to release just to milk RB1 to the full in europe. Now another cheap tactic to rake in more cash at the expense of the customer base. Remember the days when EA were at the cutting edge of software (yes that was an awful long time ago on the C64). Now its simply about how much wonga you can extract from folk. Sick of it EA, suck my root !!!!

06-04-2009, 09:32 PM	#19 (permalink)
Cheshley Rookie Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 8	Ditto. This sucks big time. I've waited this long for RB2 on Wii because EA wanted to milk the exclusivity deal with Microsoft, and now they want to palm off their excess stock of old hardware on me and tell me I'm on to a good deal!!!!!! RB2 is released on my birthday and I was going to get the full package but now they can take a running jump.

20-04-2009, 09:56 PM	#21 (permalink)
jj8523 Rookie Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 4	Hi EA, I noticed all the stores are now saying release of Rock Band 2 on the Wii as 15 May. Has it been delayed? If so, is it likely to be delayed further? Thanks

20-04-2009, 10:00 PM	#22 (permalink)
EAUK_Aurora Community Representative Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: UK Gender: Female Posts: 55,695 Blog Entries: 259	As far as I am aware it is still on Friday. If I hear anything that contradicts that then we shall post it though. __________________ Aurora Community Representative Electronic Arts View past Signature Showcase entries Currently playing The Sims 3 and Brutal Legend Looking forward to The Sims 3 World Adventures

21-04-2009, 07:43 PM	#23 (permalink)
jj8523 Rookie Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 4	Thanks Aurora. Every single retailer I've contacted has said 15 May so it doesn't look like it will be available for purchase come Friday.

23-04-2009, 02:54 AM	#25 (permalink)
no1phil Rookie Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 16	ok getting very annoyed now is this game getting released on fri or is it gonna get delayed and if so why the delay all retailers still have it as may please tell us this is not true ea looking so fwd to this and have a games night comming up.