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I've been sick of glorified "Simon Says" for a long time now and haven't bought a music/rhythm game after the first Rock Band and I have no intention of buying another one. Guitar Hero is just one of the many things I hate about Activision but pretty much everything comes back to Bobby Kotick.
09/21/09
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And give me a break on the fad thing. People still sing karaoke, we still play fighting games, we are still playing WWII games. The genres have their peak, then they sit with their lasting audiences. Rock Band will always be fun to me as long as I have a fresh new batch of good music, a few friends to play with, and enough beers.
09/21/09
Complete
Market
Saturation
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09/21/09
Based on their activities, I was pretty sure they all skipped the business school class on market saturation and brand dilution.
I'll bet this guy had to look it up in the dictionary before he went on CNBC.
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But is it saturated? Nah... =\
09/21/09
It is saturated but if companies would just lower the prices, then I'm sure these games would sell a lot better.
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What did anybody expect, for Rosensweig to say "yeah, we're kinda devolving the franchise into a shovelware fad. Oops!"
This is actually an indication that they ARE saturating the market. If they truly weren't they wouldn't be talking about it.
09/21/09
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Last week there was a pallet of them at the store where i work, we had to sent it to another store just because we were loaded with them.
09/21/09
I worked at a gamestop,and when I left in June we had dozens of guitar bundles, and at least ten of the big boxes. My local best buy had a pile against a wall, two bundles deep, and about fifteen feet high of band kits, then a 5 foot tall, twenty foot long pile of guitar bundles.
Dating back to guitar hero 2.
If I had a store, I would only stock guitar hero or rock band on order.
09/21/09
It was probably a mistake, but we had to split the pallet in to two and send one part to a store in Brooklyn and the other one to Hicksville.
09/21/09
Is there a Halo and Call of Duty CEO too? ;)
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09/21/09
+1 awesome points for you, sir.
09/21/09
I wish we could have less Guitar Hero clones and more original and creative Rythm Games like Rhythm Heaven, EBA and Guitaroo Man. I never get tired of those.
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The games might be fun, but I can't play anything other than easy, due to a severe lack of small digit dexterity. All those buttons scare me.