The recent arms race in gaming.
By Scizorz 4 Comments
An arms race on par with World war 2 has struck gaming in teh past month with now even Konami throwing it down, plastic instruments.
At the forefront of this is drums:
This E3 we got announcements from EA that you can acquire access to create youre own Rock Band peripherals and showcased guitars made from real parts costing $120 and the guitar case shaped like a coffin and with "tasteful" zebra printfurnishing.Or the madcats smoke machine that interacts with the game.
Where going to reach a point where this whole market implodes on itself because people arent going to want to spend so much on plastic instruments which are being iterated on constantly and especially when we have a volatile world enconomy.
This is why i think wii music has the chance to change this whole scene and make the publishers think twice about releasing a coffin shaped guitar case...Just using what is stanadard with the console and what is readily available like Wii music is doingsuddenly makes rythm games more mainstream even if it doesnt sound so great.You could go further and use the camera which all the consoles now have for some kind of air guitar game, imagine just bing able to air guitar and music suddenly become created, it could become a sensation and not break the bank .
Personally i have only invested in Guitar Hero, i intended to with Rock Band but now seeing the new offerings from guitar hero and rock band im going to hold back.Also ive got to eat and the price of food is soaring, i dont wnat to resort to that staple of baked beans.