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Since I spent several of my nights at E3 trying it out, please allow me to elaborate. You can connect up to three microphones, including Microsoft's sparkly wireless Lips mics.
Convenient, as the karaoke game comes with two of them, and it'll greatly cut down on the controller cord tangle that would result from using three USB mics. The three microphones are counted as a single "player. If you pick "Solo," it'll just have one line, for the lead vocals.
Trivia about the act is included as unlockable bonus material, along with previously unreleased photos, audio and video. Perhaps most remarkably, the Beatles will allow fans to buy at least a portion of their music in digital form as extra downloadable content for the game, starting with "Abbey Road" Oct. Legacy aside, the Beatles hope the game will generate profits for them as well. And the band will make money on the music included in the game, but also on likeness and for the downloadable music being made available later.
Sales expectations are high. Wedbush Morgan Securities videogame analyst Michael Pachter estimates the game will sell 5 million copies by year's end, with the disc-only version moving 3. For the Beatles, the biggest upside comes from the sales of the deluxe version.
MTV won't make much money on that package, but the company enjoys healthy margins on the disc-only version, as well as downloadable content. There isn't a shortage of speculation about how much MTV paid for the rights to the Beatles catalog, but sources say the design and motion-capture work was just as expensive as the licensing costs in the eight-figure budget.
Without directly addressing the game's costs, MTV's DeGooyer says the deal is structured so both parties stand to profit. MTV hopes the game will drive subsequent sales of downloadable Beatles content and convert Beatles buyers to the "Rock Band" franchise.
Beatles content won't be available for existing versions of "Rock Band," nor will "Rock Band" music be playable on the Beatles game. But the plastic instruments that come with the Beatles game will work with other versions of "Rock Band," which customers can buy as a disc.
But much of this decline is due to sales migrating from expensive first-time hardware purchases to software sales that consist of new music either in the form of downloadable content or expansion discs. And NPD's figures don't include the revenue made from downloadable content. The future of music games depends on attracting newcomers, which is why the Beatles game is so important to MTV.
So they're something people that have looked at 'Guitar Hero' but are not sure why they want to learn Aerosmith or Metallica songs. They see this and think, 'I can get into this. The game's developers went to great lengths to appeal to this demographic by removing many of the "game" elements from the Beatles title.
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