PS3 Rock Band 2 Available October 19th

[Evil Avatar]

Harmonix sends along a short Press Release announcing that Rock Band 2 (http://www.rockband.com/) will be available for the Playstation 3 on October 19th and that the Playstation 2 and Wii versions will be available in December.

Harmonix, the world’s premier music video game development company, and MTV Games, a part of Viacom’s MTV Networks, along with distribution partner Electronic Arts Inc., today announced that Rock Band 2 for the PLAYSTATION 3 computer entertainment system will be available on October 19, 2008. In addition, Rock Band 2 for the PlayStation 2 computer entertainment system and the Wii home videogame console from Nintendo will ship in December 2008.

In addition, the Rock Band 2 Special Edition Bundle for the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft will also be available on retail shelves October 19, 2008.

[Greeble]

I hope this means I can pick it up Oct 19. (And not shipped Oct 19th)

[Apushmataha]

I'm becoming very tempted to buy this locally and just pay tax on it. I have it preordered at Amazon, but I've heard terrible things about preordering from them. Right now it says it'll ship on 10/24.

[revelation]

Pft. Rock Band 2. In Australia we're getting Rock Band 1 in November! Take THAT!

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Yes, I'm bitter.

[Double T]

Next week I'm doing an interview with one of the programmers of the Wii version of RB2. I'll post the link here when it's done.

In the meantime check out my past shows. Feel free to email me what questions I should ask him (Dan Kramer).


www.scrapplesandwich.com

[AlwaysOn222]

If you are doing an interview I would be interested to know how they intend to work out the limited storage problem on Wii. Will there be any DLC at all?

[AlwaysOn222]

Pft. Rock Band 2. In Australia we're getting Rock Band 1 in November! Take THAT!

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Yes, I'm bitter.

lol I bet I can beat you. Not only do we get the music games late as hell in Sweden, but we also have to pay like $400+ for it! TAKE THAT!!

[Double T]

If you are doing an interview I would be interested to know how they intend to work out the limited storage problem on Wii. Will there be any DLC at all?

Yeah I know for sure that DLC is happening. It's part of the reason why it got delayed.

[Greeble]

Are all the instruments compatible between RB2 and GHWT on the wii version?

[Sophism]

The Rock Band 2 Special Edition set for PS3 was on sale at 3 Toys R Us stores I went to yesterday. I saw a couple people pick it up since Dead Space and SOCOM didn't show up in the shipments. They wouldn't break street date for LBP, though. :(

[revelation]

lol I bet I can beat you. Not only do we get the music games late as hell in Sweden, but we also have to pay like $400+ for it! TAKE THAT!!

While I don't like to lose a fight, you got me on the price point due to our crashing dollar! Three months ago, it would've cost over $400US! Now it's not worth $274US when it's out. :(

You win this time, AlwaysOn222!