The saturation of the music game genre is reaching absurd heights, as companies desperately and pathetically scrabble to take a piece of the pie richly cooked by theGuitar HeroandRock Bandfranchises. It has gotten so bad now that, in the case of XS Games’PopStarGuitar, retailerswere unwilling to stockyet another squeaky plastic toy on their shelves.
XS Games (such an ironic name) was forced to change its peripheral to a silly but small add-on that could be fixed onto a Wii remote. Walmart was apparently relieved as Hell when it saw the fix, dreading yet another big Fisher Price instrument. Problem soldved forPopStar Guitar, but for the music genre itself? Things are getting saturated as Hell.
Music gameshave now overtakenSports games in terms of popularity, according to a new report. They are the second most popular type of game after the incredibly broad “action” genre and with this popularity comes eager game makers with very little imagination but a lot of dollar signs in their eyes.
We are now at the point where peripheral-based music games are being turned away. The genre is going to collapse under the weight of its own “me too” bullsh*t if such chicanery continues, with onlyRock BandandGuitar Heroleft standing, because they came first. Shame that lazy publishers can’t find theirownmarket to corner, so they set about polluting and trashing others.
