Hey Cheapy and Wombat,
It seems that Xbox Live has been acting a bit strange lately with Live signing me out randomly, but with the upcoming launch of the new dashboard, do you guys think Live possibly even going down for hours at a time if Microsoft hasn't properly prepped their tubes for the mad rush of downloads? If you do think Live will be going down, do you think bricking will become an issue that results from the new update tubes being clogged up?
Now that Guitar Hero World Tour is out to compete with Rock Band, do you guys think Red Octane and Activision have done a better job with launching their band game than Harmonix did last year? It seems that their options at the moment are game only, guitar with the game, and the full band kit and no seperate instruments that are made just for World Tour outside of third-party guitars and mics. Reports on customer service broken seems to say it's not as easy to get your stuff fixed as it should be, so it seems like the veteran's having about all of the same issues that the newcomers had last year. Is that a sign that launching this big of a game with so many SKUs and parts is a daunting task or that these companies are slackers?
With the latest NPDs, it seems that Rock Revolution is a failure out of the starting gates, selling only a few thousand copies total on all platforms but the Wii, which didn't come out until November. Is this a sign that half-assing a Rock Band/Guitar Hero rip-off isn't a good idea, even for the publisher that made this genre? Do Harmonix and Activision own this genre as much as EA and Take Two own the sports game genre?