Thursday, February 10, 2011

The End of an Era

Activision has now officially announced that they will disband the Guitar Hero series. Apparently, due to a decline in its popularity, it no longer warrants the costs for music licenses and hardware manufacturing. A new game scheduled to be released in 2011 has bee scrapped.

However, there might be hope for fans of the games yet as experts feel relatively optimistic about a revival - possibly on the next generation of video game consoles.

To a certain extent I am glad. I  mean the series jumped the shark a long time ago and the quality of the song selection has been going downhill ever since 'World Tour'.

(via ArsTechnica & GameHunters)
Posted by Dudemeister at 1:31 PM
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14 comments:

  1. JordanFebruary 10, 2011 at 3:09 PM

    exactly my thoughts, guitar hero was really funy before world tour, then it became not so guitar hero and more like rock band...

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  2. EvanFebruary 10, 2011 at 3:41 PM

    I actually read this earlier on someone elses blog. Blizzards stock is taking a huge hit because of this.

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  3. AnonymousFebruary 10, 2011 at 3:45 PM

    I never got into guitar hero... (srs)

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  4. TastyFebruary 10, 2011 at 4:30 PM

    Yeah I've always been more of a Rock Band person to say it myself. Sad to see it go though. Lots of friends played.

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  5. BrockFebruary 10, 2011 at 4:54 PM

    End of an era indeed. Many good times have been had on GH.

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  6. AnonymousFebruary 10, 2011 at 5:13 PM

    Wow! What an end to a spectacular series.
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  7. ZakkFebruary 10, 2011 at 6:33 PM

    Rockband is a great alternative!

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  8. SamFebruary 10, 2011 at 6:40 PM

    They only care about the money, that's why most gamers hate them...is COD the only money printing franchise they have now?

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  9. tattytiaraFebruary 10, 2011 at 10:28 PM

    I admit, I'm going to miss watching people look incredibly, incredibly silly when they play that game.

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  10. murz90February 11, 2011 at 12:04 AM

    It's really end of some era... Now we must wait for new, better one :D

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  11. The Game Store GuyFebruary 11, 2011 at 12:18 AM

    If nothing else, it had a good run. Bravo G.H., Bravo.

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  12. LesFebruary 11, 2011 at 2:00 AM

    pretty scary that an industry giant like this would be canned. At the very least you'd think those spammy sports games would go first.

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  13. Kicking RocksFebruary 11, 2011 at 7:10 AM

    rockband will continue this by adding more instruments

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  14. ChrisFebruary 12, 2011 at 10:41 AM

    Goodnight sweet guitar hero

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