Today, Bobby Kotick (Activision CEO) gave a talk at the Morgan Stanley Technology Conference. During the speech, Kotick discussed artists making money off appearing in the Guitar Hero games, and noted both Aerosmith and Van Halen as examples of whom they can be potentially exposing younger audiences to.

Taken/paraphrased from Kotaku

If true, does this peak your interests more than the Areosmith or possible U2 editions?

As much as I love the Guitar Hero franchise, I'm really not feeling the direction Activision/Neversoft are taking with these band specific games. Sure, even with the possibility that they'll contain songs from artists that have inspired the bands themselves, most of the set-list will probably be artist-specific.

I don't know about you guys, but one thing I enjoy most about GH and Rock Band is being exposed to all these different bands/songs that I, for the most part, would never have heard of. The idea of one-band specific games takes away from that experience I find. I prefer the idea of getting a set-list full of variety, as opposed to a majority of songs concentrating on one band.

Then again, I wouldn't really find this a problem if the price was right, but seeing as Guitar Hero Rock the 80s (Another GH Spin-off/Expansion) was released at full price, I won't hold my breath.

But I digress. What are your thoughts?