When DJ Hero launched last year with its Renegade Edition for $200, well, not a lot of people spent $200 on it. And that's a good thing - for you! Right now Amazon has the Xbox 360 version of the Renegade Edition for $64. Yes...$64. DJ Hero supported a two player co-op mode with one turn table and a guitar.
Right now you can snag DJ Hero on the Xbox 360, with the included hardware, for only $60. That price is almost half of what the game launched for last year. The PlayStation 3 version is also on sale for $80.
Things on the music game front have been surprisingly quiet. We know that Harmonix is working on Green Day: Rock Band, that much is certain. But that's pretty much it. Pretty odd when you consider how many upcoming music games we already knew about this time last year. (Could it be that we've reached the point of saturation? We have some thoughts on this we'll share with you soon.) Rumors about two more music games are swirling; one of them is confirmed, while the other isn't as substantial.
The sales numbers for DJ Hero are in, and they are disappointing at best. 122,300 copies of the game were sold across all platforms. That's very low for a music game, especially one that was as heavily promoted as DJ Hero. Ars Technica attempted to explain the low sales, and fans of co-op will likely appreciate this particular reason:
In a fall crowded by rock music games, DJ Hero manages to stand out by focusing on music and mixes for various music tastes. Gone is the plastic guitar and in its place is the turntable. Are you ready to try your hand and spinning records? Ready to grab a guitar and help out?
One of these ads are exciting, one of them, not so much. The 15 second TV spot commercials for DJ Hero don't show a whole lot of the game, but they do have a glimmer of style to them.
Music game intros seem to be getting more and more grand. If you've witnessed the intro for The Beatles Rock Band, you know exactly what I mean. Today we have the introduction for the two player co-op DJ Hero and it does it's own share of over the top-ness.
Activision and Gamestop are teaming up this Sunday to give gamers hands on time with DJ Hero at participating stores. The DJ Hero website has a store locator to help you find a place to demo it, and from the looks of it, there's plenty of stores available.
As music games go, DJ Hero has one of the biggest set lists out of the box we've seen to date. With almost 100 songs to play, you're sure to work up some arm muscles scratching discs on your plastic turntable by the time you make it through the full set.
With less than a month until DJ Hero's release, Activision has been showing the game off at various events. Destructoid got some hands on time with the game and seemed to enjoy what was played.
At this rate, there's not going to be any incredible DJs left to put in the upcoming game DJ Hero. Today Activision has announced that the legendary duo that is Daft Punk will be lending their talents and likeness to the game in the form of 11 original mixes.
Not content to spin your virtual records on an ordinary plastic fake turntable? Well then perhaps you need to spring for the more bling-filled Renegade Edition of DJ Hero.
