According to the company's latest financial report, the 2011 installment of the game has been axed, and "the company will disband Activision Publishing's Guitar Hero business unit." The company also confirmed that the DJ Hero series is being discontinued.
No surprises here. They pushed it too hard too fast and killed it. If we were getting say like the third GH this year and it was super innovative i'm sure it would still be relative. But.... alas they gave us like 10 doses within 4 years or so, everyone sort of just got sick of it.
Edit: Not to mention losing Harmonix after the second game.
This is making its rounds on the internet today, but IRC they announced that GH6 (the most recent one) was going to be their last before it even released?
When you look at a list of all the 'music' games that came out based on this idea since the first one (which only came out in 2005!) you can see why the genre died - too much, too fast = market saturation... and frankly, they probably would have done better had they released specific songs as DLC rather than as whole new games. I'm (as a general rule) not in favour of DLC, but I don't think there were more than one or two songs in each game that I would have actually been interested in.
I got guitar hero 2 when it came out. Slaughtered the game getting everything on expert or whatever. Then never played it again and had no interest in ever playing it again. Much prefer actual guitars.
Eh this was bound to happen. I'm not surprised or shocked or whatever.
I didn't like that the music genre was getting saturated (much like the shooter genre). Problem was the the expensiveness of the games they were making and no one wanting to go all out on buying a new set of peripherals.
I do think it was dumb (also) that they didn't keep controller support. It wouldn't have been hard to do, but they axed that.
A little more info at Gamasutra, but you have to go to GI for the full interview.
No thanks, Activision. I'll just keep playing Rock Band with the thousands of HMX and community-made songs and the unlimited amount of songs I can chart for myself, thanks to the splendid authoring kit (mostly)freely available.
A little more info at Gamasutra, but you have to go to GI for the full interview.
No thanks, Activision. I'll just keep playing Rock Band with the thousands of HMX and community-made songs and the unlimited amount of songs I can chart for myself, thanks to the splendid authoring kit (mostly)freely available.
Rock Band > Guitar Hero
How I despise Activision.
Professional... well I'll figure that out.
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