The Guitar Hero Effect
Cool, brief article on Wired about Motley Crue’s latest track selling almost 5 times as many copies through Rock Band as it did through iTunes. I find it easy to believe. The Guitar Hero effect is powerful.
I’ve never actually purchased a song due to jamming to it on a video game, but I will say that if you told me two years ago that I would ever stumble across a song by Kansas and not change the station, I might have punched you in the nose. Yet just today, I heard Carry On My Wayward Son, and instead of flipping faster than John Kerry talking about Iraq, as I would have before GH2, I instead rocked out on the tiny plastic guitar in my head.
I just pray they don’t add anything by Linkin Park into the next version, because if I start liking them I may have to neuter myself for the sake of humanity.
May 31, 2008 at 8:29 am
LOL @ linkin park….I have been a regular reader of your blog.
Do you think anything about the spelling bee contests? In the recent Scripps competition, top two were Indians. In the National geographic, first place again went to an Indian. What do you think of spelling contests in general and the winners being Indian origin.
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May 31, 2008 at 12:07 pm
Hahaha @ the Linkin Park comment.
God I love your blog.
May 31, 2008 at 12:09 pm
Ty sir.
June 2, 2008 at 2:51 pm
In the world of obscure quasi-academic competitions largely populated by geeks, Indians tend to be the geekiest of them all. The End.