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@OP: Well, dur-hey. Isn't that the idea behind all retail, that you want to annihilate the competition and take over as much of the market share as possible? Being hyper-competitive is what capitalism is all about.

I don't believe that GH should be the only rythm franchise on the market, competition breeds innovation and improvement. But if one franchise can steamroll another less sucessful one, that's what they're going to try to do.

It's just business.

There is a reason Guitar Hero appears more popular than Rock Band / 2.
The answer is quite simply the approach each company takes.

Harmonix has gone the route of weekly DLC, every single week since RB1 was released and lately we've been getting as many as 10 to 13 songs per week. Everyone who is planning on buying Rock Band most likely already has it and a large chunk of them are updating it each week with new content.

Activision/Neversoft has gone the route of one new title per platform every 3 months.
The new "Guitar Hero 5" is actually the 13th release in the GH series, with GH: Van Halen to be the 14th.
You can't buy these things online, and each one comes with its own instruments, accessories, etc. It's no wonder you see more GH at stores and no wonder they move so much more through retailers.

The GH titles to date:
1. Guitar Hero 1 (Harmonix)
2. Guitar Hero 2 (Harmonix)
3. Guitar Hero: Rocks the 80's (Harmonix)
4. Guitar Hero 3 (Neversoft takes over from here on)
5. Guitar Hero: World Tour
6. Guitar Hero: Aerosmith
7. Guitar Hero: Metallica
8. Guitar Hero: On Tour (NinDS)
9. Guitar Hero: On Tour 2 (or whatever it's called, NinDS)
10. Guitar Hero: Handheld (Stupid little handheld battery operated thing)
11. Guitar Hero: Arcade (The arcade version of GH3 that you see in malls and is never calibrated right)
12. Guitar Hero: Smash Hits
13. Guitar Hero 5
14. Guitar Hero: Van Halen

See what I mean?
For comparison, here is the rock band list of releases
1. Rock Band 1
2. Rock Band 2
3. Rock Band: Unplugged (PSP)
4. The Beatles: Rock Band
Unreleased: Lego Rock Band

GH3 and RB1 came out within a month of each other.
Think the series is sufficiently milked yet?

People that pay for all the Guitar Hero/Rock Band Games need to open their eyes. Games like RockFree www.rockfree.com are free versions that are multiplayer, customizable, can use a USB guitar, and even let you upload your own jams. Why even bother with Guitar Hero these days? BOOM.

Meh, I enjoy them all. Rockband, Guitar Hero, Rock Revolution... I am by no means an elite player, I generally play between medium and hard on Guitar and Hard on Drums.

I just enjoy the games with a group of people. The ONE feature I like about rockband over guitar hero is the ability to choose your difficulty AFTER a song has been chosen.

That's it.

People should spend more time playing Sacred 2.... these servers are becoming deserted. Big Time.

Are they serious? they are probably butthurt over Rock band: beatles raping the sales of guitar hero 5.

Wow, now that's just ridiculous.

He wants them to remove Wii Music? How does he even begin to think that those two titles are competing? Has he done any research?

Well, at least they aren't as delusional as Sony's marketing exec's.

What a dick.

At 9/22/09 12:16 PM, BlackmarketKraig wrote: @OP: Well, dur-hey. Isn't that the idea behind all retail, that you want to annihilate the competition and take over as much of the market share as possible? Being hyper-competitive is what capitalism is all about.

NO. Because if they fucking wanted that, they wouldn't make the options in the game to work with ROCK BAND instruments and only their own branded Guitar Hero ones, so that they would get more sales on the Guitar Hero stuff to play the games. They're stupid, that's all.

Just wait till they go bankrupt from shitting out games, then there won't be any Guitar Hero's in stores.

Rock Band?

No Rock band and GH are actually Arcade games

Wow, what an arrogant bastard.

WT was mud you scrape off your shoe IMO, the setlist was terrible, and the "deep" customization was a fucking joke.
/rant

At 9/23/09 08:56 AM, simon wrote: NO. Because if they fucking wanted that, they wouldn't make the options in the game to work with ROCK BAND instruments and only their own branded Guitar Hero ones, so that they would get more sales on the Guitar Hero stuff to play the games. They're stupid, that's all.

Don't be retarded, you know as well as anyone else that that wouldn't work. They go the extra mile to include RB compatability because rock band has a significant market share, and you're likely to only buy one set of instruments.

At this point I have to start thinking that Activision is actually becoming the most hated company in the industry on purpose. The only question is why. Maybe they just get a laugh out of everyone buying their games regardless.

while i agree 100% with your statement, i would like to point out that gh5 did have more sales the first 7 days it was released than TBRB.