Growing Pains for Music Games
Soundcheck | May 3, 2010
The video game industry got good news and bad news at the end of 2009. On one hand, December was the industry's best month ever, with sales of $5.5 billion. On the other, total sales of $19.7 billion for the year were down 8 percent compared to 2008. One genre that's slumping: music games, like the much-hyped title The Beatles: Rock Band. We ask Chris Kohler, games editor for Wired.com, if plastic guitars and tiny microphones have jumped the shark.
