Mad Catz Paid $300K to Avoid Guitar Hero's Success
- Thread starter Tom Goldman
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Wow, going through this thread, it seems Mad Catz is all hit or miss on anything peripheral. I think I'll give them a miss.
I have to admit, when Guitar Hero 1 itself came out, and we bought it as a birthday present for one of the family members, i honestly thought the concept itself sucked. Of course, i only played it for 10 minutes, so you can imagine the frustration i had playing it on the lowest difficulty.
While we're on the subject of Mad Catz, fuck them. Seriously, i bought a PlayStation 2 controller from them that looks like a classic NES controller, and that piece of shit stopped working properly after a week of playing with it. The original controllers bought in 2000 still work fine to this day.
Their accessories suck, and im glad they had nothing to do with Guitar Hero. If they did, anybody who has had the guitar hero series would've had to pay an extra 80 bucks to replace the guitars.
While we're on the subject of Mad Catz, fuck them. Seriously, i bought a PlayStation 2 controller from them that looks like a classic NES controller, and that piece of shit stopped working properly after a week of playing with it. The original controllers bought in 2000 still work fine to this day.
Their accessories suck, and im glad they had nothing to do with Guitar Hero. If they did, anybody who has had the guitar hero series would've had to pay an extra 80 bucks to replace the guitars.
Well, people tend to hate on anything that becomes successful and mainstream, especially since when the mainstream gets involved so do a lot of people who are basically retarded who while playing seriously unintentionally make a mockery out of what serious gamers were doing. In general if someone is dumb enough, they can make anyone want to distance themselves from anything simply to avoid association. When it goes beyond one avoidable person or example and you see a ton of it... well... that's when the downward spiral of a successful franchise happens and a fad dies. I however do not doubt this genere of game will always be present to some extent and indeed "guitar game" fanatics will continue to follow the genere even if it becomes extremely obscure, lurking in the shadows to avoid mockery.... and heck, maybe there will even be a resurgence when these guys will briefly be able to admit they kept playing at some point. 
Without knowing many of the details I'm not entirely sure how Madcatz would have fared in this entire thing. Their products are a mixed bag, and success on the Xbox platform would have relied on them producing a high enough quality product to compete with the guitars being made for other systems (if I understand the deal they had). So really, it would have been a roll of the dice since I could see Madcatz getting lazy (sorry guys) and producing junk as they sometimes do, sinking the franchise, and costing themselves more money. Impossible to second guess.
Still, I can see where they are coming from in saying this was a bad idea.
Without knowing many of the details I'm not entirely sure how Madcatz would have fared in this entire thing. Their products are a mixed bag, and success on the Xbox platform would have relied on them producing a high enough quality product to compete with the guitars being made for other systems (if I understand the deal they had). So really, it would have been a roll of the dice since I could see Madcatz getting lazy (sorry guys) and producing junk as they sometimes do, sinking the franchise, and costing themselves more money. Impossible to second guess.
Still, I can see where they are coming from in saying this was a bad idea.