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Can you name all the music games on the market? You used to be able to count them all with one hand. Now you can't even get away with using all 10 fingers and toes! The market is saturated, and there's only a handful of truly great games. Even then, those great games seem to get way too many sequels within a year, which could very well explain the drop that the entire music genre is seeing in the revenue department. Are music games down and out forever?
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I don't understand why articles like this aren't done up for minigame collections.
Those are FAR MORE ABUNDANT and show no signs whatsoever of slowing down. Why complain about music games (which are generally of good quality btw) when the bigger problem is very poor quality minigame collections cluttering up store shelves?
Those are FAR MORE ABUNDANT and show no signs whatsoever of slowing down. Why complain about music games (which are generally of good quality btw) when the bigger problem is very poor quality minigame collections cluttering up store shelves?
Didn't Guitar Hero World Tour and Rock Band 2 come out in 2008?
Maybe thats why sales are down.
I predict they'll be back up with The Beatles: Rock Band and GH5.
Maybe thats why sales are down.
I predict they'll be back up with The Beatles: Rock Band and GH5.
@*AlexPuma*
"Also, don't forget, whenever a genre starts to get hot, it gets filled with copycats and me-too sequels. The same thing was happening to the Minigame collection early in the Wii's life, and the same thing happened with the FPS genre when Doom exploded, and again when Halo exploded. And don't forget the glut of Mario clones in the 8-bit era, and the Sonic clones in the 16-bit era. And the Final Fantasy VII clones in the 32-bit era."
There's also the fighting game genre, as well. Since after Street Fighter II and after Virtua Fighter, there were copycats(King of Fighters, Tekken, etc.). For Smash Bros (Dream Mix TV world Fighters, Marvel Super Hero Squad and TMNT: Smash-Up). Because of these happenings, those genres are in 'red ocean' territory.
"Also, don't forget, whenever a genre starts to get hot, it gets filled with copycats and me-too sequels. The same thing was happening to the Minigame collection early in the Wii's life, and the same thing happened with the FPS genre when Doom exploded, and again when Halo exploded. And don't forget the glut of Mario clones in the 8-bit era, and the Sonic clones in the 16-bit era. And the Final Fantasy VII clones in the 32-bit era."
There's also the fighting game genre, as well. Since after Street Fighter II and after Virtua Fighter, there were copycats(King of Fighters, Tekken, etc.). For Smash Bros (Dream Mix TV world Fighters, Marvel Super Hero Squad and TMNT: Smash-Up). Because of these happenings, those genres are in 'red ocean' territory.
This is simply proving the obvious, that companies have over-saturated the market with music games. There's too many and consumers are tired of buying the same game every 6 months for $50-300 at a time.
Music games were a fad and the bubble has burst. Ever been in Target or the like? They have to put these bundles and such on clearance because they can't get rid of them.
Music games were a fad and the bubble has burst. Ever been in Target or the like? They have to put these bundles and such on clearance because they can't get rid of them.
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EDIT: Also, don't forget, whenever a genre starts to get hot, it gets filled with copycats and me-too sequels. The same thing was happening to the Minigame collection early in the Wii's life, and the same thing happened with the FPS genre when Doom exploded, and again when Halo exploded. And don't forget the glut of Mario clones in the 8-bit era, and the Sonic clones in the 16-bit era. And the Final Fantasy VII clones in the 32-bit era.