In what came as quite the shock to many Activision announced in an earnings report which was released earlier this week that they will no longer continue with their Guitar Hero franchise.
The company stated that a decline in music was their primary reason for axing the franchise which also consisted of the popular DJ Hero games.
“Due to continued declines in the music genre, the company will disband Activision Publishing’s Guitar Hero business unit and discontinue development on its Guitar Hero game for 2011,” said Activision in their fourth quarter earnings report. “These decisions are based on the desire to focus on the greatest opportunities that the company currently has to create the world’s best interactive entertainment experiences.”
The chief of Activision, Eric Hirschberg, revealed to GamesIndustry.biz that the company “simply cannot make these games profitable based on current market and demands.”
Due to the loss of the Guitar and DJ Hero franchises, as many as 500 jobs will likely be lost. During its peak, DJ Hero incorporated dozens of iconic Hip Hop personalities including the late DJ AM, RZA and Grandmaster Flash. In 2009, a special “Renegade Edition” of DJ Hero was released featuring both Eminem and Jay-Z.
The first Guitar Hero game was released in 2005 and since that time there have been numerous Guitar Hero releases. And in the last two years the franchise also released both Band Hero and DJ Hero.
Them games been wack for awhile now anyway
Since day one.
Who gives a fuck about those wack ass games.
The real issue is that they fucking cancelled True Crime Hong Kong!
Man I WAS WAITING FOR THIS GAME FUCK THEM AND THEIR CALL OF DUTY GAY ASS OBESSION.
Shit Ghostface Killah or prob the whole WU Tang coulda made a appereance in this shit.
FUCK ACTIVISION NIGGA.
THIS IS EXACTLY WHY I PIRATE ALL MY GAMES FROM THEM AND I GOT A PS3 BITCH.
They aint never getting a penny from me bunch of lazy ass developers with bobby ginger fucking kotick.
not really big on the True Crime games but i will cosign the part where you said FUCK ACTIVISION…seriously, fuck them and there lack of support for people who spend money on their stuff….i bought a game from them last year (and @ full price wtf) cuz i got hooked on the online-only demo (not gonna say what game)…when i bought the fucking game the servers were down that day, then the next..then they worked for ONE day, then down for a week, up for ONE DAY again then down for the next 2 weeks until i sold the POS…i called their tech support # and they said there was no phone support for the game and i should check online…i checked online and they told me they only had phone support for any problems with the game.WTF!!!!!!!!!FUCK YOU ACTIVISION, i hope Call of Duty goes belly-up and every new IP you make flops you straight into bankruptcy….assholes…and guitar hero had been steadily suckin balls for a while anyways, good riddance…
by the way…did i mention FUCK ACTIVISION?…seriously…..FUCK ACTIVISION!!!!!
that horse got beaten to death.
you could say that about every video game series
Good!! concentrate on making a decent COD game,. COD 4 was amazing
agreed out of all the new generation CODs COD 4 was hands down the most addictive/enjoyable to play
God can I get a sequal to Pitfall now??
great news!!! who can really learn how to play a guitar with buttons? LoL
thank you, FUCK THOSE BULLSHIT GAMES. the sound of those button clicks used to drive me fuckin off the wall crazy. watch fag ass mo fos bobbin their heads and hammering on those buttons too awful music was brutal. i smashed this bitches set once, guitars and sex-box i was awful, when i was extra outta there at a party one time. had to buy her a new one… remember it being pretty expensive… so a special fuck you and peace out to those ‘hero’ games, you were crap!
yeah its gr8 500 jobs are being lost because of this, just gr8! u guys are fucking pricks u kno that?
People talk shit but those games were fun, not a fan of Guitar Hero but I was looking forward to DJ Hero 3, damn. Well, hopefully Scratch comes out this year and that’s supposed to be more realistic anyway.
activision ruined it for everyone. drove that shit into the ground releasing the exact same game over and over with different songs. and then Rock Band 3 comes, with completely new and innovative and AWESOME ideas, and no one even wants to give it a try. Activision ruined it for everyone with their greediness, much like they’re going to do sooner or later with call of duty.
def. agree with you on call of duty. thats gonna be a dried up twat of a series soon. multiplayer is on point but getting quicker to put down
damn this sucks
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oooh noo….