If a report from GamerAndy.com is to believed, however, Xbox 360 owners will soon be shreddin' it as well. Citing a source "in the know," the blog claims that Guitar Hero II is also in the works for the Microsoft's next-generation console. The site offers no other evidence that the game is in development.
Even with such little proof, the prospect of Guitar Hero II coming to the Xbox 360 is almost as predictable as a rock star's hotel bill. At this year's E3, Activision announced that it purchased the game's publisher, RedOctane. Activision director Ron Doornik wasn't too subtle about the direction the company wanted to take the franchise.
"The success we are seeing today is a strong indicator that Guitar Hero and the many potential extensions, new platform exploitations and international versions appear to be somewhat transition proof, as consumers are responding to this product on current-generation platforms in a manner that defies traditional late-cycle behavior," Doornik said. "We think the online capabilities of the next-generation platforms offer new and well differentiated opportunities to create additional revenues from downloadable music, which today represents one of the most popular downloadable content categories."
The Xbox 360 certainly qualifies as a next-generation platform with online capabilities, and frankly, the idea of a wireless Guitar Hero controller sounds tooooootally raaaaad. Plus, as addictive as Guitar Hero is, downloadable songs over Xbox Live Marketplace would rake in huge amounts of dough.
When asked for comment, a representative from RedOctane could not confirm that an Xbox 360 version was in the works, but did manage to throw in a plug for the PS2 version.
Bogus or not bogus?: Not a big surprise here, and likely not bogus. Start practicing those scales now. But why didn't the source mention anything about a Wii or PlayStation 3 version?
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