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Activision Blizzard plans to triple the number of Guitar Hero games on sale by 2010.
Publisher boss Mike Griffith unveiled the masterplan during the Analyst Day last night. He expects there will be double the amount of Guitar Hero titles on the market by 2009, according to Shacknews.
Things are going well, then, particularly for the bands involved. Guitar Hero: Aerosmith, we're told, made more money for the band than any of its albums ever have.
"[Their] version of Guitar Hero generated far more in revenues than any Aerosmith album ever has," said Activision boss Bobby Kotick, according to MTV.
"Merchandising, concert sales, [and] their ability to sign a new contract [have] all been unbelievably influenced by their participation in Guitar Hero."
Universal Music Group president Zach Horowitz echoed this sentiment, claiming songs included in Guitar Hero have their sales boosted by as much as 300 per cent.
We expect the bulk of the new releases to be based around band-centred spin-offs such as Guitar Hero: Aerosmith and Guitar Hero: Metallica.
Guitar Hero World Tour is, of course, due to launch on Xbox 360, PS3, PS2 and Wii in October.
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And this is why Rock Band is win. Plenty of full albums as DLC. The only way you're going to triple the number between IV and 2010 is to release 8 new games in two years. That's a lot of single-artist cash-ins. £40 for a new Guitar Hero? Or £20 for the equivalent number of songs in the vastly superior Rock Band? Hard decision.
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optimusprym8
16/09/08 @ 10:48
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gah mp3s win over CDs - multiple tracks, multiple artists, one device. DLC needs to win, I don't want to have to swap discs everytime I want to play a different song from a different artist. This just smacks of money grabbing.
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i would prefer to get new packs as dlc, i bought gh:aerosmith at retail and traded it in after 2 days because it was so poor. I also got the new metallica album off xbox live and was pleased to see it will work as dlc in world tour as well as gh3 - saying that i find the difficulty level and note charts of rock band more suited to my skills with the plastic axe
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kangarootoo
16/09/08 @ 10:57
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First off, they can release as many Busted editions as they want. I don't have to buy them so I don't much care.
Second, I expect their pricing to be reworked if a volume of band related discs is their future plan. I'm sure Activision are as aware of Rock Band's pricing as any of us are. |
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Royal Fool
16/09/08 @ 10:57
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I have not purchased a single plastic musical instrument game, and I never will.
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Depressing...
Please don't saturate the market. Has this not already happened? GH came out in 2005 and there has alrady been 4 games? with another due this Christmas. Activision are starting to make EA at their very worst look good, And they are not shy of telling the world just how much they are going to rape their franchises. |
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i think rock band is amazing to be fair and guitar hero doesnt have the strongest setlist! and in rock band 2 you can drum along to any song you have on your xbox so technically you can have any song you desire?? and ROYAL FOOL! i dont care you dont have a music game nor do i car that you will never own one so how about you pipe down and find a forum where you can talk about it...
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IneptPercy
16/09/08 @ 11:22
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I love these games but still haven't touch the Aerosmith one, at £15-£20 I probably will.
If they do standalone band games like that cheap enough which can be installed/interagted (if wanted) into world tour then it could work nicely. |
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PlugMonkey
16/09/08 @ 11:24
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I have not purchased a single plastic musical instrument game, and I never will.
Wow. You must be, like, totally teh hardcore. Or something. |
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illusiondance
16/09/08 @ 11:30
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jesus christ, well i suppose it shouldnt really be suprising, just look at the dozens of Beemani/DDR/pop'n'music titles Konami churned out over the last ten years.
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kangarootoo
16/09/08 @ 12:03
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@Royal Fool
It must be just great being so discerning and highbrow... except for the bit where you chose gaming as a hobby of course. |
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I'm one of those few people who enjoy Guitar Hero more than Rock Band.
@Bengray The reason would be because they'd be alienating those without xbox live. Maybe if they did song packs on disc but I'm sure that would still cost more than a download pack... plus you wouldn't really get to choose your songs. --- Honestly who cares if they do saturate the market with more titles? You don't have to buy them do you? EDIT: And I agree... a Dillinger Escape Plan song or two would be brilliant, even better an entire game! 43percent Burnt would be nuts.
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wewillselfdestruct
16/09/08 @ 12:14
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Guitar Hero 3 was far worse than 1 and 2, presumably because Neversoft just aren't as good at this as Harmonix. So this story gets me about as excited as geriatric porn. Which is to say, not at all. To be clear.
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Madafunkola
16/09/08 @ 12:24
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Good Ideas for expansions:
Metallica Iron Maiden Def Leppard Black Sabbath Led Zeppelin Bad Ideas: Status Quo (One button) Cannibal Corpse (4 second levels) Henry Rollins (spoken word rhythm action game?) Girls Aloud |
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steviepunk
16/09/08 @ 13:19
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"Good Ideas for expansions:
Metallica Iron Maiden Def Leppard Black Sabbath Led Zeppelin " Agreed, would also love a Slayer version as well :) That said, standalone games like this are not going to be very good in the long run. If you have friends over and want to play different songs, then you'll have to keep changing games. The only way that I can see these working in the long term is if they can integrate into GH:WT so all content will be available in there as well (as Rock Band 2 is doing with the original RB songs) I'll probably get GH:WT (I like the drum kit, will then use it on Rock Band), but RB2 will probably become my long term game unless all GH franchise content can be played in one game. |
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kangarootoo
16/09/08 @ 14:45
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@Madafunkola
I'm sure I heard there was a Metallica version in the works. Death Magnetic is also available in full for GH3 as DLC, which i think is the better way to go as any GH3 DLC you might have won't work in GH:Aerosmith, suggesting each new disc is standalone and can't be used as a platform for adding DLC (ludicrous). |
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kangarootoo
16/09/08 @ 16:16
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They also probably sold more copies of GH:A than they would expect to sell of a CD these days.
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Sky Blue Sam
16/09/08 @ 16:26
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If they do Guitar Hero: Muse, I will buy at least 15 copies...
Ditto for Radiohead. |
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daz_john_smith
17/09/08 @ 07:09
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Slightly off topic but: "Guitar Hero World Tour is of course due to launch on XBox 360, PS3, PS2 and Wii in October"
October? Most places have it down as 7th Nov. Did Eurogamer get Oct from an official source? Or is that the US release date (26/27th Oct) and we get it 2 weeks later?
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daz_john_smith
17/09/08 @ 11:02
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Well Amazon has it down as the 14th, week after Gears2, but I don't see why Gears and GHWT can't be released the same day, they are very different and kind of non-competing titles.
Back on topic: if they're going to release as many standalone editions as they say then I think that the songs on those games should be made available as DLC for World Tour so anyone who has invested in the core game can get the main content at a reduced cost and also not have to keep swaping discs. I do think that having disc based track packs is a good idea though for people without LIVE or PSN access. Given the choice of buying GH:Metallica or just downloading the songs for use in GHWT I'd go the DLC route now I'm on LIVE, I'm not really arsed about new costumes, characters or venues.
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