Activision targeting real musicians with fake instruments
Activision has revealed the next stage in its plan to take over the world with plastic instruments: selling Guitar Hero: World Tour to real musicians. From November 14th, World Tour will start appearing in a number of musical instrument outlets.
Now that we think about it, this could be a winner for everybody concerned, really. Guitar Hero players who want to progress to the real thing might have their head turned, musical instrument stores get a small slice of Activision's money-filled pie, and seeing fake instruments next to the real thing should further irritate the anti-fun types who sniffily ask why people "can't just learn a real instrument" whenever the subject of music games is raised. And hurray for that.
Gallery: Guitar Hero World Tour
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Jasen @ Nov 5th 2008 1:40PM
Hopefully some real musicians will be attracted by the song creator and generate some good content.
holmes @ Nov 5th 2008 1:45PM
to me, the only way you'll get real musicians to contribute meaningful content to GH tunes is if you were to allow them to take real MP3s of their music and allow them to track their own songs.
if that were to happen, GH would be a much better platform for small bands to promote themselves when compared to myspace or facebook, even if the songs are given away for free.
Mike Cohen @ Nov 5th 2008 2:06PM
Rock Band has been selling at Guitar Center and Sam Ash for months already. Guitar Hero too...nothing new
TVGenius @ Nov 5th 2008 2:19PM
Guitar Center has been selling Rock Band since at least February.
Dustin @ Nov 5th 2008 3:42PM
I'm planning on making songs with Guitar Hero: World Tour and exporting them by plugging in a double sided headphone jack to my TV and computer. I'll just record it with Audacity and V'uala.