Beatles: RB song pricing revealed
Plus: SingStar rumours trampled.
Harmonix and MTV have announced that downloadable albums for The Beatles: Rock Band will cost 1360 MSP (£11.56 / €16.32) on Xbox 360. Individual songs will be 160 MSP (£1.36 / €1.92).
Abbey Road will arrive first on 20th October, according to Joystiq - over a month after the game's 9th September release. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band will join in November, followed by Rubber Soul in December.
Abbey Road offers the B-side medley as one continual track ("You Never Give Me Your Money" to "The End"), and "All You Need is Love" will be a timed-exclusive DLC release for Xbox 360 from 9th September.
The extra Beatles: Rock Band content is exclusive to that game because of catalogue restrictions. But Harmonix has not forgotten about other Rock Band games, and aims to have 1000 songs available to download before Christmas. Artists will include Queen, Nirvana, Tom Petty, Elton John, Iggy Pop, The White Stripes, Pantera, Talking Heads, Korn and The Raconteurs.
You may have heard rumours of a SingStar: The Beatles game, too. Harmonix has responded.
"There is no SingStar: Beatles software product," said a statement, re-iterating the exclusive catalogue rights that Harmonix and MTV have. The confusion seems to have arisen from a proposed microphone bundle for The Beatles: Rock Band. The game, remember, introduces three-part harmonies, and so has more vocal depth than previous entries.
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Oh, and nice keeping the Abbey Road B-sides all on one track.
Bring on 09/09/09!!
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And this just having picked up the RB instrument kit for £34.99 brand new - so the lot for less than £70. Cheers!
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YEEEESSSSS!
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I was under the impression that Beatles Rock Band was only good for playing Beatles tracks. Partially to keep the Beatles experience distinct from the rest of Rock Band, but I also expect that the deal that got them all the Beatles music involved some kind of stipulations on how it was used. So I don't expect that we'll be able to play the rest of the Rock Band library via this one, but Rock Band 2 is still a great purchase either way.
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Just a word of warning, they'll charge you for that now. I used their GAME20 code to pre-order FIFA 10 a few weeks back, and a couple of days later they'd taken the money from my account.
The B-Side medley should be interesting. According to Wiki, it's about 16 minutes in length. Longest RB track ever?
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