Rock Band has been one of the most popular music games of this year. With friends or just by yourself, you can play together in a band with guitar, bass, vocals, and drums. Downloadable Tracks (Discs on Wii) allow you to experience the game even more with more songs to play from some bands you may, or may not, like.

With Rock Band 2 coming out soon (November 18 for Wii), people are getting excited to play over 80+ new songs, new modes, and more! However, Australia and New Zealand have yet to experience the fun of the original Rock Band. Now that it is finally coming out, they will get to experience Rock Band after some of us have played Rock Band 2 already!

The prices were always ridiculous though. People would complain over buying the game for at least $190 for the full set (just to tell you guys, if you don't reserve the game, you won't be able to buy the game separately from the instruments) was crazy! After seeing the Australian price, I think we actually have a bargain. Rock Band coming out to Australia will cost a total of $520 for the full set! That's more than double our price and even more than a PS3!

Some of the Australia retailers have refused to place them on the shelf, because they know for a fact no one would want to buy a game that's a year old and is even more than the price of Rock Band 2! That, and they know that if the game doesn't increase in number (sell a lot), the store wouldn't even be making a profit!

Harmonix, denying the price to be that high a few weeks ago, "don't even know what your publisher is doing." Stay tuned for more news.