If you’re buying the standalone disc for Rock Band 4, it will cost $US20 more on Xbox One — $US80 instead of $US60. How come? The wireless protocols that Microsoft uses on their consoles means you need a special device for your Xbox 360 hardware to to work on your Xbox One. The bundles, however, are the same price.
The Standalone Disc For Rock Band 4 Will Cost More On Xbox One
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Obviously MS can’t bring out its revamped controller soon enough…
Any chance we could get a story on Rockband 4 included songs and available DLC songs vs Guitar Hero? Cheers.
I thought they were just jacking the price up a ton. EB has it available for pre-order (granted they’ll take a pre-order for anything). $499 for the full kit, $250 for just the game and guitar.
[Edit: Nevermind.]
DLC is everything that’s been available for Rock Band 1-3 aside from those which have had their licenses expire. If you purchased those songs though, you can still download them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complete_list_of_downloadable_songs_for_the_Rock_Band_series#Complete_list_of_available_songs
The RB4 track list revealed so far is also here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_Band_4#Soundtrack
I am pretty happy that all the old songs work, and the Rockband library has 4,197 songs. Take my guitar picks! http://www.harmonixmusic.com/games/rock-band/legacy-songs/
Yeah, just on DLC alone, RB4 wins by a landslide.
The Guitar Hero Live track list is much more complete at this point:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guitar_Hero_Live#Soundtrack
Some good stuff in there but a lot of it is music that personally doesn’t interest me (and I think a good chunk of it has been in a Rock Band game anyway). Your mileage may vary.
there’s some odd selections in that list – Calvin Harris? Skrillex?
Either way, I just hope that it doesn’t end up like last time with a “want to play songs from _______, well they won’t be available on Rock Band/Guitar Hero, because they’re exclusive to Guitar Hero/Rock Band”
Yeah, there’s a bunch of stuff that’s kind of perplexing. I get the impression GH is going for a sort of mass market karaoke sort of approach. Hope there’s room for both in the market and GH doesn’t ruin everything again.
https://www.jbhifi.com.au/Search/results/?keywords=rock%20band%204
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edit: Ugh, was meant to be a reply to Josh R.
Yeah just checked, thanks
Well, that actually makes sense – if this version requires an extra $20 dongle to make existing instruments work, then yeah, it’s justified.
I think the miscommunication comes from calling it a ‘stand alone’ version – it’s bundled with an extra item, and only the other platform version(s?) come as a stand alone disc.
Edit: wait, does that mean the full $500 bundle doesn’t come with the adapter (and therefore you still need to buy it to get older instruments working), or just that they’ve absorbed the $20 into that ridiculous price?
Nope, there is no adapter with the bundles, because apparently you don’t need it, even though both versions only include one guitar, and there won’t be a standalone guitar for at least a few months.
Also don’t forget that it’s an extra US$20, so more like $50+ down here.
There’s a compatibility chart on the Rock Band forums, that indicates that none of the wireless instruments are compatible (except for the drums on PS4 for some reason).
http://forums.harmonixmusic.com/discussion/258920/the-rock-band-4-instrument-compatibility-chart#Head
And here I thought getting the USB instruments to work would be simple…
$20US = $27.80AU. Let’s not over exaggerate here 😉
US$250 for the band in a box compared to AU$500.
Conversion rates don’t seem to matter when it comes to Rock Band.
Ah my mistake.
*shrugs* Didn’t expect any other outcome. Better than paying for the full band bundle, anyway, considering I already have all the instruments.