Rock Band 3? Flop? The death of a genre?

[daroamer]

Shorty11857 said:

Killiana1a said:

You think Rock Band 3 flopped, then just wait until Power Gig: Rise of the Sixstring comes out. Power Gig was created for the music industry and is going to completely, effing tank because no one besides life long guitar players will be able to play the tracks.

For God's sake, Power Gig has Stevie Ray Vaughan's "Couldn't Stand the Weather" as a track. Just imagine how your Guitar Hero player who blasted through "Texas Flood" on expert will react to having to bend actual strings on an actual guitar. He/she will effing hate it and may not get through a quarter of the game before selling it back to GameStop.

Furthermore, here is a preview criticizing Power Gig, mainly for not teaching you how to play before forcing Eric Clapton's "Layla" upon you:

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/reviews/2010/11/power-gig-comes-with-real-guitar-horrid-gameplay.ars

You don't play the real guitar parts in power gig though, from what I've seen you play the normal five button  gameplay on a real guitar, which would suck because you'd be hearing the same 5 notes on your guitar the whole time when playing a song. Plus the Power Gig guitar is meant to be awful

Yeah, i was going to say the same thing.  The irony is you DON'T play the actual guitar parts in Power Gig, you're just playing a typical music game on a real guitar.  I think the closest thing they have is having you play power chords (2 note chords) on the correct frets which is their version of pro mode I guess.