NZ Rock Band Pricing and Release Date!

After months of anticipation and a few rumours, EA have today announced the confirmed pricing and release date for Rock Band in New Zealand.

Releasing on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii and PlayStation 2 on October 31st, the pricing will break down as follows:

Playstation 3 and Playstation 2
• Instrument Pack (excluding Software) - $219.99
• PS3 Software - $99.99
• Standalone Guitar - $89.99

Xbox 360
• Instrument Pack (excluding software) - $219.99
• 360 Software - $99.99
• Standalone Guitar - $89.99

Wii
• Instrument Pack (excluding software) - $219.99
• Standalone Guitar - $89.99
• Wii Software - $79.99
• Wii Song Pack 1 - $49.99

PlayStation 2
• Instrument Pack (excluding Software) - $219.99
• Standalone Guitar - $89.99
• PS2 Software - $79.99
• PS2 Song Pack 1 - $49.99

So to get you started with the software and instruments (not including second Guitar), you'll be looking at $320 for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, and $300 for the Wii and PlayStation 2 versions.

Here's the full press release:

"Auckland, NZ – 22nd, September, 2008 – Harmonix, the leading developer of music-based games, and MTV Games, a division of Viacom’s MTV Networks (NYSE: VIA, VIA.B), along with distribution partner Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS), today announced that Rock Band will be available for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PLAYSTATION®3 and PlayStation®2 computer entertainment systems and Wii™ beginning 31 October, 2008.

Rock Band is the all-new platform for music fans and gamers to interact with music. The game challenges players to put together a band and tour for fame and fortune, mastering lead/bass guitar, drums and vocals. With more master recordings than any other music game, Rock Band features some of the world’s biggest rock artists and spans every genre of rock ranging from alternative and classic rock to heavy metal and punk.

Rock Band also features an unprecedented library of more than 200 songs available for purchase and download for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system and PLAYSTATION 3 system. In the near future, all new Rock Band downloadable content will be available on a weekly basis. For a complete list of Rock Band songs available for purchase to date, please go to http://www.rockband.com/dlc.

Since its North American release in 2007, Rock Band has garnered more than 40 awards including Game Critics Award: Best of Show E3 2007 and three awards at The 11th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards including Outstanding Innovation in Gaming, Family Game of the Year, and Outstanding Achievement in Soundtrack.

Rock Band is rated PG."

Let us know you thoughts in the comments below!

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On Monday 22 Sep 2008 2:33 PM Posted by Lifeforce

Electronic Arts,
Rock Band is really old now,
Give us Rock Band 2.

On Monday 22 Sep 2008 2:43 PM Posted by Phoenix

Ah, a Haiku, nice!

Better late than never I guess, I can only hope we don't get Rock Band 2 when Rock Band 3 is about to come out!

On Monday 22 Sep 2008 2:48 PM Posted by stupidlikeafox

screw spending $420 on an old game, im getting GHWT.

On Monday 22 Sep 2008 4:12 PM Posted by alienhominid

meh. its best to wait a couple of months for RB2 or GHWT

On Monday 22 Sep 2008 4:39 PM Posted by Ubercuber

Ill just grab GHWT with all the gear, then maybe pick up RB disc when its on sale for $49 after a couple months when no one buys it.

On Monday 22 Sep 2008 5:19 PM Posted by alienhominid

i thought u had had to get seperate instruments as they won't work with each other?

On Monday 22 Sep 2008 6:11 PM Posted by Prensel

$100 maybe

GHWT looks more worth it

On Monday 22 Sep 2008 6:25 PM Posted by Daniel1987

@ Alien Hominid: Nah they're cross compatible. Although there was talk of one of the upcoming music games having its gear exclusively to itself, can't remember what game though.

On Monday 22 Sep 2008 6:26 PM Posted by Tegra

Thats not as bad as I thought, even if it is late. At least we get the extra PAL version tracks (at least I hope we still do).

On Monday 22 Sep 2008 6:47 PM Posted by djkicks

October 31st! About time!

Release day purchase for me... or not.

On Monday 22 Sep 2008 7:55 PM Posted by TheDark1

Posted by Daniel1987 on 22 September 2008, 06:25PM
i think rock revolution's instruments are exclusive.

I think that's a pretty decent price, but I'm gonna wait for GHWT and then buy the software.

On Monday 22 Sep 2008 8:04 PM Posted by tim705

GHWT is going to be way better.

On Monday 22 Sep 2008 9:43 PM Posted by Ubercuber

So, if RB2 was to come out in a few months...wouldnt it be easier to buy that, hire RB1, and use the export songs function that have now. WHY WOULD ANYONE BUY ROCKBAND 1?

On Tuesday 23 Sep 2008 7:40 AM Posted by marbig

I don't want you anymore, Rock Band. Leave.

On Tuesday 23 Sep 2008 3:27 PM Posted by BlackRetina

Does anyone know of any video stores in Auckland that rent out Guitar Hero w/ Guitar?

On Tuesday 23 Sep 2008 3:42 PM Posted by Ruptunex

Rock Revolution isn't being released with a guitar Peripheral, you'll have to use a rock band or GH guitar.

I'm buying the full set of GHWT and i'm gonna buy the drums for RB2 and the software for RB2 when it comes out and rent RB1 and use the export tool to save all the songs to my hard drive except the four that don't work so i'm all set. I'd rather use the rock band drums for rock band and the GH drums for GH, it'd be too different and they wouldn't play like they were meant to. The compatability matrix at Joystiq is updated frequently and shows that most GH instruments work on RB and the RB instruments mostly work on GH.

http://www.joystiq.com/Instrument-Compatibility-Matrix/

But this is far too late. That's what i'm gonna do.

On Tuesday 23 Sep 2008 4:10 PM Posted by alienhominid

@Blackretina

some of the videoezy stores do I think. I rented GH2 last week in Devonport. I wanted GH3 but they lost the disk...

On Wednesday 24 Sep 2008 12:50 PM Posted by Dancing is Forbidden

$80 (+50 for the song pack?) seems pretty reasonable if you've already got GH3 for Wii and just want some extra songs with slightly different gameplay.