Wow, it's just absurd the number of games. What were the two main series games this year?

For 2009 I counted Smash Hits, GH 5, Metallica, Van Halen and Band Hero, so I missed DJ hero.

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well i dont care how many come out there still good games

I stopped caring about Guitar Hero after the crappy GH3.


While Rock Band is being milked as well, it isn't certainly as bad.

Lego Rock Band ought to help with that.

I'm personally bored of both GH and RB now. I don't think I'm going to be purchasing any more entries of either franchise.

I loved Guitar Hero Metallica. After that, there is nothing they could possibly follow up with. :P

Yeah it's crazily insane. People say Nintendo are milking Mario Party, but that's only had 8 games, and been around since the previous century, Guitar Hero's getting more than half of that entire franchise in one year.

I never understood what the appeal of GH was, anyway, and now that it's become this, this thing... I'll steer well clear of it.

One of the big issues with releasing so many versions of GH is that those tracks could easily be added as track packs or DD purchases rather than full release games.

This is likely one of the reasons why more people are beginning to prefer the RB franchise, which has allowed players to transfer tracks allowing for one large library without having to switch games.

Of course the Rock Band Beatles edition shows EA is hardly above doing the same thing, although in all fairness, the art direction is very specifically Sgt. Pepper/Beatles-like in addition to the Beatles specific game controllers. A track pack wouldn't do for a proper release.

But special band editions, while catering to a very specific audience, are still profitable, even if they don't sell the same numbers as the "main" editions.

But the reason for all the retail releases is the simple fact that they continue to sell and so Activision will continue to play the cash cow until it stops.

Either you like music rhythm games or you don't. If you do, you can only play X track on expert near 100% so many times before you want more tracks (or better yet, just learn how to play a real instrument already).

The biggest complaint I hear about any music game is that "it doesn't have enough tracks that I like" or "I don't know any of these songs."

It takes a huge amount of releases to change that, assuming consumer interest in the genre continues to hold.

agreed GH:Metallica was the best GH yet and i wont be buying any more. Ill just stick with rockband and purchase songs i want through DLC. SO much cheaper and better

you should have made the title: "petition against Guitar Hero, sign if you want it to stop."
would have been much more popular ;)