Last Minute Productions

Yes it looks like our friends across the pond are finally getting rock band, albeit in not quite the way they were hoping. Instead of getting a nice full package of game/guitar/mic/drums for the not insignificant price of $169.99 they get to buy them separately… for twice the price… Yes my friends you thought beating you in the American revolution and throwing you unceremoniously back onto your little island would be enough for the founding fathers but no — in the year 1789 they began a secret government project, one that would spend over 200 years in development (nearly as long as Duke Nukum Forever) and culminate in what we now know as rock band. A weapon that would bring the once great empire to it’s knees. And now we see it’s fruition.

Priced at a staggering £49.99 (around $100) for the game disk and £129.99 (nearly $300) for an “instrument pack” (aka the mic/drums/guitar included in the american version) the Rock Band experience will run them the price of a brand new console.

The Brits have had to deal with this kind of thing for a long time; delays that run into the months (or years), gimped prices, the lot and they’ve done it with admireable aplomb — but this might just drive them over the edge. Twice the price for a game that we’ve had for nearly six months? You have my deepest condolances Britton.

My advice is revolt — it worked for us.

[Via Eurogamer]