Rock Band Beatles

Some may think that the music game genre may be over-saturated and starting to die off, but a new study shows that’s not true.

DFC Intelligence used information from GamerDNA for the month of September to monitor the usage of The Beatles: Rock Band and Guitar Hero 5 on the Xbox 360. They looked at how many played the music games and how many played both titles.

The figures show that 45% of Guitar Hero 5 users also played The Beatles: Rock Band. The percentage drops abit the other way to 34% of Rock Band users play Guitar Hero 5.

Miller claims that “considering that this was only the first month of release for the products this is a surprisingly high overlap, that suggests strong loyalty to the concept of music games in general.”

The figures do show that Beatles: Rock Band did attract a new user base to music games. Amongst worldwide users, 64% of The Beatles: Rock Band users had not played Guitar Hero World Tour or Rock Band 2.