Well, to answer the actual question I do think the entire plastic insturment game genere is dying out. It's been a few years, all the kiddies are growing up, and the newest kiddies don't want to be just like the other kiddies.
Add to it that where originally you had a lot of big time music celebrities coming out and talking about how wonderful the genere was, your seeing more and more big name people coming out and speaking against it. Apparently Jimmy Page (I think that is the name) from Led Zepplin really kind of ripped the idea, and Prince (irregardless of what you think of him, he is a big name) did he same thing.
The point being that in the time you put into mastering some of these songs on a worthless plastic guitar you probably could have learned to play a guitar for real and do some of the same songs.
Of course I suspect a bit of it has to do with successful musicians who are still loaded from what they did, and those who partied or snorted away all their profits and are happy to be able to get a few bucks from DLs and game liscencing.
Don't get me wrong, I don't think this will ever truely die out, but I think it's past the "fad" phase, it's already peaked as a phenomena and there is nowhere for it to go but down. I expect it will be just another game genere, and one of the things that some people will love, and others will hate vehemently as opposed to it being "OMG Plastic Rocker games are sooooo kewl!" like in the last few years.
Also consider that it's become the stuff of fandom. The music/air guitar fantasy drew a lot of people in who weren't gamers to begin with. But then of course you had all the gamers doing it too, and at a certain point I think the non-gamers look at the basement dwelling, pizza-faced geeks, jamming away with overpriced plastic guitars, go "OMG, was that me for the last year or so" and run away from it as fast as they can go like happens whenever a few mainstream or maybe even "cool" people are temporarily drawn into the black pit of nerd-dom.
As the Omega Nerd I am quite familiar with the phenomena. Simply put fanboys tend to ruin things for non-fanboys who look at them and rush to seperate themselves from that extreme.
>>>----Therumancer--->
Add to it that where originally you had a lot of big time music celebrities coming out and talking about how wonderful the genere was, your seeing more and more big name people coming out and speaking against it. Apparently Jimmy Page (I think that is the name) from Led Zepplin really kind of ripped the idea, and Prince (irregardless of what you think of him, he is a big name) did he same thing.
The point being that in the time you put into mastering some of these songs on a worthless plastic guitar you probably could have learned to play a guitar for real and do some of the same songs.
Of course I suspect a bit of it has to do with successful musicians who are still loaded from what they did, and those who partied or snorted away all their profits and are happy to be able to get a few bucks from DLs and game liscencing.
Don't get me wrong, I don't think this will ever truely die out, but I think it's past the "fad" phase, it's already peaked as a phenomena and there is nowhere for it to go but down. I expect it will be just another game genere, and one of the things that some people will love, and others will hate vehemently as opposed to it being "OMG Plastic Rocker games are sooooo kewl!" like in the last few years.
Also consider that it's become the stuff of fandom. The music/air guitar fantasy drew a lot of people in who weren't gamers to begin with. But then of course you had all the gamers doing it too, and at a certain point I think the non-gamers look at the basement dwelling, pizza-faced geeks, jamming away with overpriced plastic guitars, go "OMG, was that me for the last year or so" and run away from it as fast as they can go like happens whenever a few mainstream or maybe even "cool" people are temporarily drawn into the black pit of nerd-dom.
As the Omega Nerd I am quite familiar with the phenomena. Simply put fanboys tend to ruin things for non-fanboys who look at them and rush to seperate themselves from that extreme.
>>>----Therumancer--->
only other GH game i got is GH: Metallica because im a big metallica fan so had to own that one 
