Let
me take you down...
The Beatles: Rock Band, Viacom's over-hyped and costly
video game based on the music of the biggest-selling rock band of all time, has
not been a big seller.
According to NPD Group the game sold only sold 595,000
units in its first 25 days on sales in the United States last month. While that is bigger than the first-month sales of either
2007's Rock Band or 2008's Rock Band 2, but far below the best launches in the
music video game genre.
Analysts thought that the game would do a lot better and
even after the solid but disappointing start sales of the game are slipping. The month's top- selling game was Halo 3: ODST, the
latest entry in Microsoft's best-selling series, which sold more than 1.5
million units.
The Beatles: Rock Band was the No. 3 release in unit
sales and No. 2 in revenue for September. The game generated $60 million in
sales.