Helping or hindering: Guitar Hero on the music industry
Ever since the release of the first game, the Guitar Hero games have taken the world by storm, seeing a spin off franchise Rock band, clothing, toy figures and its own line of plastic Gibson and Fender guitars. So the question is: has Guitar Hero energised the music industry? Or put it on the path to destruction?
The charges:
- Less people are picking up Guitar Hero rather than real instruments. Some people might not find any appeal in playing guitar anyway, but it has gotten some people to dig deeper into learning an instrument. So people who had never given a second thought to picking up a musical instrument are now doing just that. With some ‘musos’ saying it is stopping people playing guitar might as well claim that about all video games.
- It’ll never match playing a real gig. While it will never beat the rush of playing onstage in front of people, it is the closet that people will come to it. All video games transfer the player to a scenario where they can live a life as a ninja, football player and thanks to Guitar hero, a rock star. Sure, Guitar hero players might never know the joy of rocking out with guitars onstage, but then, thats there loss.
- The music industry will suffer because of Guitar hero. One of the first charges was that companies were worried that music sales would go down, if anything its been the opposite. It allows players to hear music they might not have before and gives bands more exposure. The newest game – Metallica, will expose the band to an even bigger audience than before. Metallica isnt the only one to do this, as AC/DC and Aerosmith have done the same, with Van Halen set to follow suit sometime this year.
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