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Grade B20 sourcesHIS-01661

Rock Band (video game)

Game · 2007 · Notable

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Rock Band sold 1.5 million North American copies in its launch quarter, EA reported.

Rock Band (video game)
Wikipedia (non-free, fair use)
Original Rock Band drum controller; public-domain photograph by Y2kcrazyjoker4.
Y2kcrazyjoker4 at English Wikipedia / Public domain / Wikimedia Commons
Owner's retrospective with original guitar and drum prototypes and photos of launch bundles.
Harmonix / Daniel Sussman
Original Rock Band gameplay screenshot accompanying lead designer Rob Kay’s first-person development postmortem.
Harmonix / Rob Kay, via Game Developer

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Numbers

Milestone date
By end of Feb 2008
Nov 20 ’07 to By end of Feb 2008
Platforms
3
Started on Retail
Origin
Mixed
Gaming

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MTV promoted Rock Band through TV and hands-on demos. Its full-band controllers carried play into homes and bar nights. EA reported 1.5 million launch-quarter copies; Viacom later reported 18 million song downloads before the sequel.

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Timeline (16)

  1. April 2007

    Harmonix / MTV / Electronic Arts precursor · Apr 2 ’07

    The companies announced a game for guitar, bass, drums and vocals with licensed master recordings.[1]

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  2. July 2007

    WIRED precursor · Jul 3 ’07

    WIRED covered a gameplay video that had circulated online before release.[2]

  3. August 2007

    Penny Arcade Expo attendees precursor · Week of Aug 26, 2007

    PAX visitors waited up to 45 minutes to play on a stage during the August 24 to 26 convention.[3]

  1. precursor · Oct 22 ’07

  2. precursor · Nov 12 ’07

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Origin
Mixed
Sector
Gaming
Region
US
Reported figure
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Evidence
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