Analysis Details Massive Failure For Music Games

[XT inc]

We'll the devs don't take into account that their game is a part of the world. That People aren't being swayed away from other games.

Consumers are always looking for deals and cheaper things, music games aren't competing against new titles, but used games and steam+gfwl. Their main issue is royalties to the song owners. Lets face it, it's a jooooke to say it's hard work to make those songs for the games. Why would they think I'd rather get half an album for the price of a game off steam.

 

[j0frenzy]

I think a big aspect of the declining sales since 2008 is the peripherals. In 2008, people had none because the games were just being released on home consoles. In 2010, people don't need to buy the $100+ versions with the instruments because they already have them. That alone is going to do terrible things to revenue. Now keep in mind that those things break and are expensive to replace. They probably lost a lot of sales because the controllers no longer work and people decided the genre was not worth another triple-digit investment to get a new game with all the needed instruments.
And then there is the over saturation problem that is not helping either.
Also, there is the fact that it is not the holidays yet. I haven't gotten RB3 mostly because I only have money from December to February and whatever I manage to hold on to after that period. At least RB3 is trying to innovate the genre.

 

[Something Amyss]

I love that people are singling out music games for poor performance last month, even though they weren't alone.

Obviously a lot of people just wouldn't see the point, but as we can see, this evolution of the music games is required in order to keep the genre not only alive, but flourishing.

I hope so, but Rock Band 3's sales are far from promising (even within the context that they weren't the only oens floundering). I think the pro model is awesome, but I totally seem to be in the minority here.