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All You Need Is Love

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The Beatles Rock BandLast month Rock Band released The Beatles: RB, and to compete Guitar Hero spit out their fifth big sequel. So like me, you may be wondering: who sold more copies?

The winner goes to Rock Band, who sold +462,000 copies just between the Wii and Xbox version (they sold enough titles to make it to #2 on the top 10 September sales). Guitar Hero 5 sold 210,800 copies on the Xbox  alone last month, whereas The Beatles sold 254,000 Xbox copies.

Harmonix/Apple Corps/MTV Games then went on to add that Guitar Hero 5 even came out on an additional platform (PlayStation 2), but still The Beatles outsold GH. In your face, Activision.

DJ Hero is Not Getting Me ‘Cited

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This picture is the only good thing to come out of the idea of DJ Hero.I am not a die hard Daft Punk fan, but I have been listening to them since 2006, which I believe is longer than most since they recently started blowing up (anyone else remember them on Cartoon Network?). In turn, this means I’m a little bummed to hear that they’re going to be on the newest [Insert Instrument] Hero game.

I’m going to brag a little more and say that I got the first Guitar Hero game for PS2 for Christmas in 2005 before it was at every college party in the US. So it wasn’t until this year that I lost my respect for the Guitar Hero franchise, because at one point at the anonymous game store I work at we had 3 window posters up: Band Hero, Guitar Hero 5, and DJ Hero. Three games to all come out in the same year, right around the same time. Oh, and don’t forget Guitar Hero Smash Hits in June and Guitar Hero Metallica in March.

I’ve heard the “oh, everybody sells out if they get the chance” spiel already, and no that isn’t always true, so I was hoping it wouldn’t be true for Guitar Hero and/or Daft Punk. Bottom line, I guess I’m just emotional because I hate to see my beloved Daft Punk and Guitar Hero sell out with each other, in another crappy, forced expansion.