venepe said:
I don't blame the "casuals" for RB3's failure in the sales department. I blame the "hardcore". Their constant demand for realistic instruments and the constant "just learn how to play an instrument" statements, created the image that those into RB and GH were "wanna be" loser musicians with plastic guitars. Harmonix caved in to the "hardcore" and gave us the keyboard and the string guitar. Oops, nobody actually wanted to be a real musician, it takes actual talent and hard work. The "hardcore" were bluffing, they were just elitists, hating on "casuals" who had made the games popular. They never really wanted realistic instruments.
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That has little, if anything, to do with Rock Band 3's sales. It is because of overflooding of the market. When you have two companies coming out with basically the same game about 2 times a year, then of course people are going to stop buying it. It would be like if Take Two still made their NFL games and released 2 a year, while EA released a Madden game twice a year. The sales for those games would be horrible.
If they were smart about it, they would have released a game at the start of the gen. Then throughout the following years, just have updates to allow use of new accessories and have downloadable song lists. Maybe for those who don't have the internet, they could release a track pack on a disc for like $15-$20 with most or all the ones available online, as well as any updates up to that point in time. Another rediculous move was to have it where the songs you download only work for specific games, instead of them being universal. There's like 4 or 5 seperate download areas for these games on PSN, when there should only be 2. One for all the Guitar Hero games and one for all the Rock Band games.
So no, gamers are not at fault for any of these games failures. It's the developers to some point, but more than likely, it's mostly the developers.
@ OP
You know there is something fishy about the US Tax Code if a company can sell a "failing" studio for only $50, and still claim a tax credit of hundreds of millions.
