Rock Band, the game released by MTV and Harmonix, is selling like hot cakes and its success is boosting the sales of the downloadable content.
MTV announced that since the launch of the game in November last year the gamers have purchased more than 2.5 million game levels based on songs.
"Our goal with Rock Band was to create an entirely new way for people to interact with the music they love," stated Van Toffler, president, MTVN Music Group/Logo/Films. "The incredible response to the downloadable content we've released to date motivates us even more to establish this platform as a way for people to discover new, up and coming artists through the game - in addition to delivering great game play experiences set to the music of mega-artists."
Rock Band is a party game that was released bundled with controllers shaped like guitar, drum set and microphone. The full package costs $170 and it seems the price doesn’t represent a problem among the music-themed video games fans.
The game includes 58 playable songs such as the Rolling Stones' Gimme Shelter and Metallica's Enter Sandman and it was released for Xbox 360, PS2 and PS3. More tunes can be downloaded over the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live for prices varying from 99 cents to $2.99.
