ThatDudeBo says:

You wonna know what i’m waiting for? The damn stores to get it, that’s what i’m waiting for.

Living in a smaller European country sucks, when your hobby is video gaming :/

ThatDudeBo Reply:
September 17th, 2010 at 2:54 pm

Just noticed after a quick tour of the interwebs that there’s finally a danish store selling this. I’ll stop my bitching now. (unless we don’t get the squier )

Waxfinger Reply:
September 18th, 2010 at 2:10 pm

I’d be really interested in knowing where you found it as i’m a fellow dane who’s been searching furiously for the new peripherals.

Anex Reply:
September 17th, 2010 at 4:03 pm

That’s going to be the problem here too.. even if that box is written in French I expect to have a hell getting it.

Whizzer Reply:
September 18th, 2010 at 2:08 am

Surely Amazon.fr can help you out?

http://www.amazon.fr/Clavier-Pro-Rock-Band-sans/dp/B00409SOCS/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=videogames&qid=1284793661&sr=8-2

Although it says it won’t ship until November 30, which is crap.

ThatDudeBo Reply:
September 18th, 2010 at 6:55 pm

@Waxfinger

Here: http://www.billigespil.dk/shop/rock-band-3-6858p.html (:

Fatjab says:

If anyone’s interested in just the keyboard by itself. Buy.com has it for $73 to pre-order.

MCA76 says:

Really sucks that it doesn’t come with a stand What does the packaging for that look like?

Anex Reply:
September 17th, 2010 at 4:06 pm

You can probably pick up a keyboard stand at any music or pawn shop for cheaper than the 25 bucks.. but then again maybe not. The ones at my pawn shop are about 25 euros… but I got my mic stand for only 15!

Game!Ov3r Reply:
September 17th, 2010 at 4:27 pm

Did they come out and say that standard Keyboad stands will work with this?

Polite Reply:
September 19th, 2010 at 10:38 pm

It’s not a very technical bit of gear. it’s legs with two struts to lay your keyboard across. it’s kind of a universal thing.

Anex says:

Well it has French on it.. that’s a good sign.. right right? Not likely.. when I went to reserve it they didn’t even know the game I was talking about.. they were like “which Guitar Hero?” (always the problem here)
And when I tried to mention that I’d like to reserve the pro guitar as well when it came out they were like “they have a guitar with REAL strings?!” the only game they know that does that in France is Power Gig.. watch them try to throw that crap at me.. >.>

RockBandAide Reply:
September 17th, 2010 at 4:48 pm

On American-originating products, the French language on packaging is meant for French speaking Canadians, so it can easily be sold everywhere north of the border.

Sorixas Reply:
September 17th, 2010 at 5:43 pm

So, is that the Canadian packaging, or the American one? I thought that American packaging had to have Spanish on it. (Me = “ignorant” Canadian.)

Antwon Reply:
September 17th, 2010 at 6:23 pm

Nah, American packaging doesn’t have to have Spanish on it. Many products do, but that’s for marketing reasons rather than legal ones.

So in the absence of other data, either this is (a) the Canadian packaging or (b) they’re just using one packaging for both Canada and the U.S. combined, for simplicity’s sake. (I’d blithely guess the latter myself, but whatever.)

Xzyliac Reply:
September 18th, 2010 at 2:03 am

I recall most Rock Ban hardware packaging containing English and French.

I say that because I totally recognized some of those French words in that font.

/photographicmemory

ILikeMe1337 says:

Is anyone else wondering who the market for this is on October 26th? Is there that many people out there on launch day going to buy the disc only and then 3 hours into playing it realize they want the keyboard and go back to the store and get it? I mean I just can’t figure out who’s dumb enough not to buy the keyboard and game bundle when the game first comes out, the keyboard isn’t compatible with anything else besides the Rock band 3 software other than using it as a MIDI instrument. I mean it’s a different situation than the drums/guitar mic bundles because some people didn’t want all of the instruments and there was a market for getting the game and instruments separately. I’m just surprised this isn’t like RB2′s launch with a month of waiting time between the bundles and the separate controllers and discs. Does anyone else share my confusion or am I alone in my insanity?

pspcow Reply:
September 18th, 2010 at 1:27 am

you are alone in your insanity, my good sir. they said that they were not going to do bundles other than the keyboard + game. yes, the amount of items being sold is a bit overwhelming, but they do it like that so you get exactly what you want. there will probably be a big chart in retail stores to help you decide what u want.

Polite Reply:
September 19th, 2010 at 10:40 pm

People who want to make a keytar only band? Considering you can use the keys to play guitar/bass as well. Why do I think that would be awesome?

skydog says:

Preordered the Keyboard Bundle yesterday )))))))

MaximusDM says:

Christmas colors!

Dark Reality says:

Anyone else think it’d be brilliant if they sold it early and patched RB2 to see it as a guitar (since it can be used as one)? The advantage being RB3 becomes cheaper to own at launch and the learning curve for the keyboard is leveled a bit. I’d buy it. Well, I will either way, of course.

LoopyChew Reply:
September 19th, 2010 at 11:28 am

Actually, I think that would encourage people to play keys in GRYBO mode instead of Pro mode, which is pretty much the polar opposite of what they want.

Dark Reality Reply:
September 19th, 2010 at 7:00 pm

Not sure you have a firm grasp on what they want. What they want is success and the money and power it brings. What they know is that less than 10% of Rockband players overall even play on Expert, so that makes anything related to Pro mode a gamble. Pro isn’t going to move (much) product. Casual gamers are their bread and butter. But Pro makes it look better. So yeah, they want “GRYBO” players. And they want that keyboard used as a guitar/bass, so it’ll sell, too.

LoopyChew Reply:
September 20th, 2010 at 4:14 am

While yes, a black bottom line is definitely one of the goals of the (or any) company, I argue that if they simply wanted to retain their success/money/power/women, they’d keep on their merry and continue releasing hardware revisions of their current instruments and new gameplay modes (à la Guitar Hero) instead of trotting out new instruments.

The “Expert” level statistic is irrelevant here, because like all other instruments, the Pro Keys comes in all difficulties. Thus, there is an equivalent learning curve for Pro Keys as there is for regular keys.

The other thing about the keyboard is, if they hold onto it until RB3, use of the actual keyboard comes as a completely clean slate. If you’ve never played keyboard before and they trot in a completely brand-new two octave keyboard, you’re less likely think to yourself, “brand new keyboard! Let’s only use five of the keys!” than, “brand new keyboard! Let’s take this sucker for a ride!”

If you’ve played it in RB2, however, it’d be like, “okay, I’ve played this thing in five-button before I know I can do that at least; why don’t we start with that?”

However, I concede that I have a tenuous grasp on what they want, on the condition that you concede the same–after all, neither of us work for Harmonix.

Xzyliac Reply:
September 19th, 2010 at 7:40 pm

I can see that confusing the balls off of everyone.

Just release everything normally and simultaneously. The average consumer has enough information to juggle when it comes to RB products and DLC and accessories.

folkeye says:

Wonder how many batteries this sucker takes and why they don’t include a wired option anymore. As a solo non running around the room player, not blasting through batteries is welcome.