Activision Pulls the Plug on Guitar Hero Franchise

Declining returns happening music games prompts noncivilised stave cuts at Activision studios.

Well-nig everyone has had dreams of being a rock headliner, simply as of yesterday, you shouldn't rely on a videogame to help you fulfill them. Not a videogame from Activision anyway, as IT proclaimed last night that it was halt work on the 2011 Guitar Hero release, and disbanding the division at its publication subdivision that handled the franchise.

According to Activision, the Guitar Hero franchise had stopped being profitable, then the decision was made to bring it to an end. It's no secret that the most recent release, Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock, received a lukewarm response from critics and consumers alike. Warriors of Rock was really equitable the a la mode example of a genre in decline withal, a far cry from its heyday in the youth of the Guitar Hero franchise.

Besides the Guitar Hero cancellation, there are also rumors of layoffs at Vicarious Visions, which made the Wii version of Warriors of Rock, and FreeStyleGames, which made Disk-jockey Poor boy. Activision has not commented directly on these rumors, just an SEC filing revealed that it is cutting a staggering 500 staff. These cuts are said to represent in "prevision of a continuing spineless environment for casual and music-founded games." Activision predicts that these layoffs will be it between $35 and $50 million in severing pay and other costs.

While the end of Guitar Hero has been coming awhile – thanks, in no dwarfish take off, to Activision shoving so many of them out of the door – it's hard not to see this as the end of an era. Our thoughts go out to everyone affected by the task cuts, and we hope they'rhenium capable to find something else soon.

Source: Gamasutra

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