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It’s all over.

No more singing the same wrong lyrics over and over.  No more beating your fake drum set with your authentic drum sticks.  No more harmonious chords produced by pushing the blue and red button at the same time.  It’s all over.

Activision Blizzard, Inc., makers of Guitar Hero, announced yesterday that they are pulling the plug on the popular video game series.  The game, which grew to enormous fame in the mid 2000’s, has been struggling to remain profitable.

One time sales of musical “accessories” were necessary to play the game when it first came out over five years ago.  However, the only revenue produced by the gaming franchise of late has been new songs that you could download to your system for a marginal fee.  These fees have not been enough to justify the future of the gaming legend.

“In retrospect it was a $3 billion or more business that everybody needed to buy, so they did, but they only needed to buy it once,” said Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter. “It’s much like ‘Wii Fit.’ Once you have it, you don’t need to buy another one.”

Don’t cry too much for Activision, however.  Even though they’re cutting loose the Guitar Hero money-pit, they’ll be just fine.   The release of “Call of Duty: Black Ops” back in November made over $1 billion in the six weeks following its release.  The new game in the “World of Warcraft” franchise isn’t doing too poorly, either.

A good portion of the musical video game industry seems to be following suit.  Also last November, Viacom, Inc. sold Harmonix, the division that produced Guitar Hero’s main competition, “Rock Band.”  In an ironic twist of events, Harmonix was involved in the initial release of Guitar Hero.

Approximately 500 jobs will be lost at Activision due to the death of Guitar Hero.  The company plans to offset those losses by hiring more personnel in other areas of their business.

As for those of us left behind by the passing of Guitar Hero: We still have our gear, we still have our music, and we still will rock on.

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