Ever since the release of the first ever Guitar Hero game, the games have been a huge success and since that year, 2005, Activision have stormed the gaming market. Up until now Guitar Hero have released 10 different games, the first ones being based more on guitars. More recently, with the introduction of Rock Band, Activision has been forced to make the games include a number of instruments.

However, with 3 games in the tube, Guitar Hero are aiming for a market away from guitars while trying to take some market away from Rock Band.

The 3 upcoming Guitar Hero games are called Guitar Hero 5, Band Hero and finally DJ Hero. The first one, Guitar Hero 5, is a standard Guitar Hero game, featuring the standard instruments as well as a 85 strong set list. Alongside this game, a new guitar controller is being released which is improved on the previous model.

The next game up is Band Hero, this one is very similar to Guitar Hero 5, however it’s more of a family based game. Activision is using this game release as another way to try and get a larger cut of the market, this time, family gaming.

DJ Hero is the final game that they have in the pipeline. This is a totally new angle for Activision, and it’s a way of them trying to take a different piece of the gaming market. The game will benefit from a new controller, the DJ Deck. Because DJ Hero is targeting a brand new target market, it’s almost impossible to tell if the game will be successful. Although, if the game is successful, are we going to see a whole new range of Guitar Hero games? Obviously not called Guitar Hero. Plus, if DJ Hero is successful, will Rock Band release their own game range of compete with Guitar Hero.

There are still a large number of target markets that haven’t been looked at yet by Harmonix or Activision. One being piano players amoung us. No doubt a Piano Hero game would be popular because you would get both modern piano players, as well as more classical players who prefer to play grand pianos.

There are also other angles that could be considered, one being a classical version of Guitar Hero. Classical guitars are hugely popular and by bringing out a video game like Classical Guitar Hero, you would almost be entering a new market because the age of the player would be different to the age of a standard Guitar Hero player.

They are just a couple of the ideas that popped into my head, but whether they will ever turn into a game is another matter. Whether or not these games are preduced comes down to how well DJ Hero does in the market and how much money is made for Activision. Activision would also have to consider when making a game like Classical Guitar Hero, whether or not it would make any money for them.

These are all factors that would need to be considered before a new game would even go into production, but I would like to see some of these games in the near future.

 

 

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