Music Games Losing Steam? Rock Band Fights Back with Community Songs Network!
Posted 7/22/09
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Categories: In what should really be of no surprise to anyone, analysis of the music game genre shows that sales are tapering down with a steady decline. Gamasutra gives us a little insight to details of the decline, showing that “U.S. Guitar Hero/Rock Band revenues are down 49% year on year, as discounted hardware and over 20 SKUs flood the market.” according to data from the NDP Group.
Honestly, if the makers of Rock Band and Guitar Hero didn’t see this coming they should have their market research teams go back to school. With the glut of “Band” and “Hero” spin offs, expansions and sequels, combined with all the knock off wannabe rhythm games being passed on to less savvy consumers it was simply inevitable.
Harmonix Coffers Getting Prepared for Flood of our Cashola
Every one’s very excited about Harmonix’s confirmation of the option for Rock Band 1′s transferal of tracks to Rock Band 2. For a mere five bucks they will allow us to rip the tracks off the Rock Band 1 disc for use in the sequel. This may all sound well and good, but I can’t help but feel I’m getting scammed here.
Let’s look past the obvious argument that I already paid for these songs when I bought the first disc. Didn’t Microsoft just recently announce that we will be able to load our games to the hard drive with the upcoming fall update? And surely this could be a simple firmware update for the PS3 also.
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