Coldplay Intros Tap Tap Revenge For iPhone
In the new musical climate where album sales are no longer suficient for sustinance, we’ve seen artists turn to video games to make money, and we’ve seen artists turn to the mobile platform to make money. Sooner or later, somebody was bound to merge the two, and Coldplay is that somebody.
Metallica Joins The Guitar Hero List (aka: the new way to make money in music)
Guitar Hero: Metallica will be released on XBOX 360 and PlayStation 3 late this March. This adds Metallica to the list of artists who have learned to capitalize on the surge of opportunities within the current video gaming market. After strong sales, but notably bad publicity with regards to the audio quality of their latest [...]
Finally, Guitar Hero For Real Guitars!
I’ve always struggled with Guitar Hero. The button moves often times seemed counterintuitive, moving down the fretboard to generate a higher pitch and so on. Ever since it came out, I’ve been wanting somebody to develop a box that would do a quick FFT analysis on the guitar, turn it into MIDI data and make [...]
Video Games Will Save Us?
The NPD Group just released an article reviewing music sales in the third quarter of 2008 with some surprising finds:
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1) Legal downloads are growing faster than illegal downloads. The amount of music shared via legal methods grew by 29%, where as growth in illegal music downloads via P2P networks rose by 23%. When you think of how many people are using P2P services to pirate music, that 23% is scary; but if this trend continues, we’ll see the gap between legal and illegal music sharing close. Russ Crupnick, entertainment industry analyst for NPD, remarked:
“The industry has managed to constrain the number of people who are file sharing, but the expanded use of services such as Bit Torrent enable entrenched P2P users to download a growing number of files.”
That would actually be good news. For piracy to decline we need less people pirating, not less files to pirate…
