[Update: During the conference, Activision just confirmed the death of DJ Hero as part of the Guitar Hero franchise. True Crime: Hong Kong was canceled because it was "just not good enough" to compete in the open world genre. Most of all, they didn't expect it to generate enough profit and stopped development.]
Activision Blizzard is set to announce its Q4 results any minute, but that didn't stop them from announcing that Guitar Hero is dead. No longer shall we have to deal with Rock Band vs. Guitar Hero arguments, as the Guitar Hero business unit has been disbanded and all work on the 2011 Guitar Hero game has been discontinued. Maybe there is a God after all!
Development on True Crime: Hong Kong has also been stopped. Which might be one of the reasons you probably didn't hear anything about it for a while now.
Activision Blizzard will instead focus on Call of Duty titles, the development of a "best-in-class digital community surrounding the Call of Duty franchise" -- good luck with that -- a new Bungie IP and some new and "innovative universe with broad appeal" that will be revealed at Toy Fair later this week.
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Contest:
3:40 PM on 02.09.2011 | 
Me: Hey, maybe Activision is finally learning something!
"... so that Activision can focus on making Call of Duty games!"
Me: Forget I even said anything. Wake me up when they abandon Call of Duty for another franchise to exploit.
Jesus fucking Christ Activision knows how to run a franchise into the ground. I mean, they seriously just made a press release saying they are giving up on the last franchise they milked only to let us know (in the same article) that they are giving the same milking treatment to Call of Duty....I...I..I just don't get it.
Fine with me.
Activision is now focusing on COD: Shit...
NO!
NOOOOOOOOOOO!
AW GAWD, AW GAWD.
I-I CAN'T EVEN COMPREHEND WHY THEY WOULD DO THIS? IT LOOKED SOO GREAT!
... I'm jsut not surprised that it's dead.
Actually, this might be a good thing. As they focus more on CoD they'll drive it into the ground until I no longer have to listen to people endlessly drool over it like it's the second coming.
My thought was the same.
My thought process as the article went like this:
As for the True Crime game, I wasn't much looking forward to that either but it's still sad news. I could have sworn I saw an updated look on that game less than a month ago. Here's hoping those guys can find work too.
We only need CoD to steal all your monies.
But as for more Call of Duty..... I think I'll stick to RPGs from now on.... haha.
Now let's see if Bobby Kotick's vision of a subscription-based Call of Duty comes true.
I'm not sure how much longer I can put up with hearing people brag about their "skills" in the series pretty much all the time.
That means get a PS2.
LOOK WHAT THEY DID TO ME :(
I've always felt the only real upper hand GH had on RB was more challenging song charts. The GH DLC rarely interested me AND was few and far between, not to mention my RB DLC has carried over disc-to-disc FROM THE FIRST GAME! I stopped buying GH games on release or even new when it was evident to me Harmonix made more fan-friendly efforts. I thought the DJ Hero series had potential, but they were doomed to fail under Activision's "guidance". I'm always sad to hear when devs are getting canned, but I will always go out of my way to support Activision as little as possible.
I don't think they're saying GH, and DJ Hero will be gone forever. There's just no plans for them to come out in 2011, but who knows what they'll put out in 2012. Other sites are saying that those games and Tony Hawk are not coming out in 2011, but that doesn't mean that all three franchises are dead forever, like some people here are rejoicing over!