Get Your Game On – 03.25.08

Guess I'll stop air-guitaring for fear of getting sued for playing a "simulated musical instrument". OOPPS, did I just incriminate myself??

I think I've been following things pretty close for years, and I can't figure why they don't want the next best thing to gravity drive. I'm witnessing the meld of turbo and rocket designes in engine technology, the not so far future I may add. our defence and transortation tech is in the crux of a new era. but the production is closed I know we've taken a blow and am sorry but I still need to work,. robert

That seems really backwards. Guitar manufactures have to have noticed a bump in sales generated by Guitar Hero and Rock Band. It shouldn't be hard for them to really tap the floodgates that those titles have opened up by making their own more realistic offerings to the genre.

Some of the technology in Rock Band makes it pretty clear that a relatively easy to play game could be made using a 'real' Gibson guitar as the controller. If they were to go THAT route they could scoop up tens of thousands of gamers with a fairly easy but exciting game, and litterally use the game to teach the gamers to play and buy real guitars.

Think about it, a $100 plywood guitar that comes with a pretty fun game. Thanks to Guitar Hero/Rock Band, that would sell. Nobody is going to be happy with just one guitar/controller, so they'll need more for their friends. Then they're going to want to show off by getting a better guitar/controller than their friends. They could make countless legions of devoted gamers into loyal guitar playing customers.

Gibson made it big by jumping on the electric guitar concept decades ago, now an even bigger revolution is at their doorstep and they're chasing it away with a stick!

I want everyone to know that I hold all the patents for virtual sex. If I so much as catch any of you, Big Trouble!!

Gibson is lame!

Whatever. I own Guitar Hero and Rock Band and they can pry them from my cold dead hands. Suck it, Gibson!

"Gibson has set their sites on several retailers,"

Should be "set their sights...."

I agree with Mark... I think everyone's just a little to flighty about protecting their rights. The way I look at it, it's free advertising to them and if people really enjoy it, they'll get their own guitar.

Companies should be glad that they are imitated and not try and to stamp out something because they didn't come up with it themselves.

The blog is pretty vague, concerning the plantiff's reasons for taking the software companies to court.

Sounds like Gibson overlooked some fine print, ... or approved the rights to the model and then changed there mind.

The Guitar Hero franchise spent a pretty penny getting the rights to all those songs, and I'm sure that they wouldn't have overlooked the Gibson label, without running it by them first.

Something doesn't add up here... and I doubt this will hold up in a court of law.

You forgot to mention this from the claims by gibson.
"Gibson's patent calls for a "head-mounted 3D display that includes stereo speakers" by which musicians can simulate a concert using an instrument. As per the patent, the prerecorded concert would play while musicians accompany the concert on their own instruments.
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It all boils down to spilt milk, Gibson is upset because Activision did not renew the contract on the guitars and they are sueing to get their share of the preverbial pie.

Damn Gibson just loves to sue anyone. They got there money and there still crying. They should leave rockband alone thats Fender terrotory!!!

"...Gibson is upset because Activision did not renew the contract on the guitars and they are sueing to get their share of the *preverbial* pie."

It's spelled "proverbial"...