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Rock Band Wii sold more than any other version, RB2 not selling so well
Rock Band Wii sold more than any other version, RB2 not selling so well
As much as we all like to complain about how Harmonix gimped Rock Band , not everyone thought it was so bad. The first Rock Band game has served over a million customers in 2008, with the Wii version of the game outperforming all other consoles. Odd, considering the game had practically  ...
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Consumers buy Rock Band for Wii, love less features
GoNintendo — I am sure Harmonix doesn’t care either way, but this can’t be good news for us. NPD has shown that Rock Band on the Wii was a huge seller, besting all other version that were out last year. Yes, that’s the Rock Band that has hardly any features that the 360/PS3 versions had. Comparatively, Rock Band 2 on the Wii has sold 150,000…but it’s still early. I am hoping Wii owners wise up and pick up the better of the two games. Link This entry was posted on Friday, January 16th, 2009 at 4:32 pm and is filed under ...

2008 showed World Tour defeat Rock Band 2 in sales
Joystiq [Nintendo] — ... What we'd like to know, however, is how World Tour stacks up against Rock Band when including the first game into the mix. Has the Rock Band franchise sold more than 3.4 million units? Guess we'll have to wait and see on that one. Considering how well Rock Band did on Wii and other platforms, it would be very interesting to see them stacked side-by-side. ...

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