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Activision Axes Guitar Hero

Posted by Soulskill on from the death-of-a-genre dept.

jtillots writes "Activision Blizzard has canceled the Guitar Hero franchise, citing 'declining revenue of the music game genre.' Also on the chopping block was DJ Hero and True Crime. Fat_bot put it best — it's the new Day the Music Died." This comes only a few months after Viacom dropped Rock Band developer Harmonix for similar reasons, and less than a week after they closed MTV Games altogether.

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  1. Re:Weird by Tukz · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    So you want companies to start including expensive custom hardware with their games?
    That'll surely kill the market.

    Besides, when you own the hardware, you can pirate all the other games easily.
    Buy Guitar Hero World Tour, full set with drums, guitar etc, and you can pirate Rock Band 1 2 3, Guitar Hero 3, 5 and all the band version.

    So not really the best argument, unless they make the hardware incompatible with each version, which would be very retarded.

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