Guitar Hero: Gone for good or just for now?

@morde10668, that is a terrible analogy, food and games aren't comparable; for one, games are not a one time use the same way food is. I'm sure a lot of people will go to their favourite restaurant and order the same meal more than 17 times in the course of several years.

It will be back next gen

"The biggest flaw in the model was that the peripherals were always 'good enough,'" Pachter said, "meaning that once you bought the band kit, you didn't need to upgrade to next year's version. Right, so if the peripherals sucked and you had to blow a mint on new ones every year that would have really helped the genre stay alive. If it ever would have taken off under that model. Well, he's probably not saying the peripherals should have sucked. Maybe he's just pointing out an inherent problem. Anyway, games need to change. You can't just release the same game with different box art, you have to make it better or else we've been there and done that, and you can't do that very well in one years time every year let alone every other month.

if they didn't, someone else would have? i highly doubt it. if they didn't, then the genre would still be popular and every developer would know not to release a game every 2 months. but because Activision got greedy, they ultimately destroyed what was once a great IP and genre.

itl come back when everyone starts craving it again, i still play my world tour every now and then with some mates

I've always preferred Rockband.

seven releases in 2009...that is all

its going to come back on next gen consoles for sure

Morde I actually do that lol

Hey guys I just opened a restaurant, how would you like to come eat and pay for the same meal 17 times over the course of a couple years, sounds sweet doesnt it? Come on down!...

good news. im sick of guitar hero games. they should have done only ONE game, with all the other songs downloable, instead of making 300 guitar heros with 20 songs each. im glad this happened.

Finally, this purest example of a ripoff has been put down.

Why are people so glad to see the franchise gone? No one forced people to hand over cash to buy the games, and I would say that in light of the dislike within these comments, I would suggest they wouldn't have bought them anyhow. Personally, I think it's unfortunate GH will have no more releases. I do think it over saturated a market, but also think that GH: Metallica had some awesome tunes that appealed to my particular taste, far more than The Beatles. The series were fun for parties, some had better tracks than others but I also didn't have a gun pointed at my skull so didn't feel I was forced to buy any of them other than those I wanted to guitar / drum to. That's the great thing about being adults, you get to have a say in what you buy. Anyhow, pity there wont be future games for me to select whether the tracks justify a new purchase or not. Meanwhile, the games I did buy won't ruin my health by sitting around waiting to be played, so I feel no malice towards the franchise.

If ya enjoy justin bieber, you probably own all the guitar heros, just sayin

After the 7 GH games in 2007, the lack of innovative features and the terrible post-launch support I hope they kill it.

@higgydiggy Same needs to be said for the horrible setlist the GH series has always had. If not for DLC, I wouldn't have ever wanted to play GH as much as I did.

7 separate Hero titles in 2009 alone? Jesus christ, talk about over saturation...

This is the best news I've heard all year.

I could care less, never liked the games never even bought them and played them a few times before I got bored and played Perfect Dark 64 or Halo CE again. Whats so great about these games anyways they wanted a crap load of money for them, and they never improved it just released another disc with a bunch of songs never changed. Hell the graphics were crapy enough as it is were a joke. I know that graphics wer enothing for this but if they are gonna make you watch stupid looking models that look like crack heads why not either make them funny or realistic looking?

"If Activision hadn't flooded the market, someone else would have, and the state of the music genre in 2011 would have been unchanged. There is absolutely nothing Activision nor anyone could have done to save the music genre." No, no one else would have. Kotick had stated their business model quite clearly: A new installment every year. Bleed the IP dry for everything it's worth. Harmonix didn't even come close to do doing this. The only thing I can think of is EA, but a new sports title every year is more justified (though honestly, not much more so).

I'm glad to see it gone. After Rock Band started and I realized what a music game SHOULD be, all Guitar Hero has been able to do for me is ignite a burning rage inside whenever I saw another game. Guitar Hero, may you rest in...burn in hell, GH.

It seems like there has been a a lot of reboots going on in the gaming industry like Devil May Cry or Tomb Raider. I got a feeling that in the next few years we are going to hear about a reboot of the Guitar Hero series, so I don't think Guitar Hero is gone quite yet.

Guitar hero would've been more interesting if you did things like in the GH 2 commercial. If you were actually a hero, with like a mission mode or something, instead of playing on a bunch slightly different stages static audience. Mission like stopping a meteor with your rock, or defeating a demon, something interesting. No matter how many songs they added, the games were all basically the same, like COD but worse. If the games had been more aesthetically pleasing and offered a change of environment they might have done a lot better.

when the same happens to Call of Duty then i gotta find a new FPS to play

rock band 3 it's awesone but it didn't selled well....... activision made a disaster franchise (which after the third one was trully terrible) and yet they managed to made a lot of video games and acquire a lot of money... they deserved to be respected? nooooo gh doesn't deserve our money and time..... let's hope rock band and the music genre continue with us in the future...(dj hero it's still working wtf¿?)

Hope it never comes back, its a waste of money.

I liked how Activision pretty much said, yeah we flooded the market. And them shutting the GH part down is nothing more than let's get people talking about GH again and then at E3 we will announce a new GH for 2012 with tambourine add-on and people will rejoice!

Lets hope Guitar Hero stays dead, Rock Band is superior to it in every way.

Rest the Guitar Hero series for 10 years. Then try it again, but I think it is done forever.

Zither hero

If I had any respect left for activision its gone now because the least they could do is man up and just come out and say "we milked the market and released too many guitar hero games"

As much as I hate to admit it, Guitar Hero will probably make a comeback in a couple of years, and all the fanboys will go crazy for it...

They flooded the market and have nearly succeeded in killing the genre. The games were easy to make and if there's one thing Activision loves it's easy money. They shot themselves in the foot in the process though. If anybody decides to make a new music game they need to focus on making the system tighter and more game-like. As it was, the newer music games just felt like the songs were "skins" layered over the same track. Didn't feel like gaming at all.

Gone for good. Those "games" where planned to burn fast with the casual crowd, always hungry for a new toy, and be left to die since day one. Time has come for them to vanish.

Face it, the last good guitar hero was GH3

It looks like another franchise got through the milking hands of Activision. Everyone liked Guitar Hero when it was new. I remember Guitar Hero 3 was just phenomenal. Unfortunately, CoD is also facing the same "milky" faith... I guess it runs in Activision's genes to milk...

same thing gonna happen to cod the way they are doing things

When people start talking about the next generation of consoles, I stick my fingers in my ears. I JUST GOT A PS3 TWO MONTHS AGO.

This calls for Bagpipe Hero

@RavenXavier The Xbox 360 IS 5 years old... the only thing on my PC that is 5 years old is my HDD, so maybe it is time for the new generation (especially as the next generation of handhelds is here)

@dragonfly110 lol no I just mean it sucks that GH won't be able to even TRY to make it, but like I said maybe Rock Band might do something

This sucks I always like GH way more than RB. We all know if it wasn't for DLC there would be no redeeming feature to the horrible setlists RB tends to have.

This is what happens when you milk a franchise to hard, and fail to adapt to competition. COD is starting on that path, but its fanbase is so huge I dont think it will be affected anytime soon, or ever.

Activision should do what Harmonix does. Release a music game like every year or 2 years.

@Dynamo11 there was a GH Iron Maiden in the works?

it just sucks that I'll never get to play GH: Iron Maiden or GH: Metallica 2... hopefully Rock Band does a deal for those

Good riddance! This was a long time coming.

"Activision is a methodical company, and their continued dominance hinges on the growth of their franchises" LOL COD, BUT WAIT, theirs more "The resources that would have been used to create the next Guitar Hero will be best served on creating new intellectual properties." LOL@^, What new intellectual property has Craptivision came out with, they are living off the money machine WOW and COD

Activision are milking FPS also... I tend to agree, not many people will invest in multiple sets of instruments... people will still pull it out at parties, but for the most part... it gets old