LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - It turns out everyone just wants to be a rock star.
Music-genre video games “Guitar Hero" and “Rock Band" are bona-fide smash hits, entering the rarefied air once reserved for only the elite first-person shooters, “Mario" games or sports titles. And success breeds imitation.
Music games seemed to be everywhere at this week's E3 video game trade show and it wasn't just Activision Blizzard Inc showing off its upcoming “Guitar Hero: World Tour" or MTV Games, a unit of Viacom Inc, providing a sneak peek at “Rock Band 2." Both are due out later this year.
Nintendo Co Ltd debuted “Wii Music," a game that lets you simulate playing over 60 different instruments, while Konami Corp and Microsoft Corp also showed off new music games of their own on the horizon.
“Music has really become the killer application," said Don Mattrick, a Microsoft senior vice president, who runs the company's Xbox business.
Music-genre video games “Guitar Hero" and “Rock Band" are bona-fide smash hits, entering the rarefied air once reserved for only the elite first-person shooters, “Mario" games or sports titles. And success breeds imitation.
Music games seemed to be everywhere at this week's E3 video game trade show and it wasn't just Activision Blizzard Inc showing off its upcoming “Guitar Hero: World Tour" or MTV Games, a unit of Viacom Inc, providing a sneak peek at “Rock Band 2." Both are due out later this year.
Nintendo Co Ltd debuted “Wii Music," a game that lets you simulate playing over 60 different instruments, while Konami Corp and Microsoft Corp also showed off new music games of their own on the horizon.
“Music has really become the killer application," said Don Mattrick, a Microsoft senior vice president, who runs the company's Xbox business.
