@subnet6: My snark and your snark aside, I meant it in the sense that over-saturation is bad. It caused the last video game crash, and it has caused numerous other product crashes. Music games are no exception. Sure, Rock Band and GH are the big guns, but now everyone wants a piece of the pie, and with GH cranking…

@subnet6: Oh no. See, what's happened is GH and Rock Band have created an entirely new niche. You know how people are fanboys about games and snobs about music? This rivalry has tapped both those sides simultaneously.

@Slust: What's irritating about this is that what these games are doing is what DLC is for. All the crazy motion capturing of musicians and such is purely aesthetic. If you dig that, and are willing to plunk down 50 to 80 dollars to get the songs plus a digital representation of the band, fine. But discographies…

*referring to America's demand, of course.

I still will never understand how the demand for that thing keeps rising. I guess it's like the fruit of Tantalus or something, because I sure as hell know that when I ended up getting one, it was a very 'meh' affair. I can't even remember the last time I turned the thing on. Probably sometime shortly after Brawl…

Has anyone ever examined the question "would pirates actually buy the software they're pirating?" I tend to pirate things I'm either unsure of, or in which I have only a minimal interest (I don't count so-called abandonware in this, though with things like the Virtual Console the existence of ROMs has become an issue…

Anti-knife campaigners? Good God man, how do they expect me to cut my steak?

@Jordan Lund: Yeah, Paterson's got a real winner of a think tank working for him. There is the problem of precedent, though. That's ALWAYS the problem with anything legislative.

"Hi, I'm David Paterson. If you would like to contribute at all to our economy, you have to do all these special things that the other 49 states don't require. Wouldn't you love to do business here?"

@Feba: I don't recall making any comments about the female game market. Mostly I remember answering the question of who wouldn't want it, which I don't think negates anything you, rather literally, noted. A little bit of snark enriches everyone's life!

I hope he's ultimately right on this one. I just keep getting awful flashes of "another pong clone?" when I look at the Wii section at game stores.

"Hey, who doesn't want to play rhythm games, learn to actually dance and find a prince?!"

The face that launched a thousand jetskis.

So all this actually brings to the table is a slightly altered interface, one new instrument layout, and out of the available list of 31, over a third already exist in a Guitar Hero or Rock Band title.

@Blindmark: A 60% mod rate among students? That's too high for me to believe at all. I've been a gamer my whole life, and in the course of that time I've only encountered three people I can think of off the top of my head who've modded consoles. One PSX, one PS2, and one 360, and I hang around a crew of people who…

@Ghar: I'm not saying it wouldn't be cool to get to go or anything. It just doesn't seem that unusual to me. The Who had previously stated that they weren't that interested in rock games, so to have them actually play a concert backed up against the release of The Who pack, the announcement of Rock Band 2, and their…

@blurayforever143: Affordable discs have been around long enough that it's easy to forget how much games actually cost in the late 80's and early 90's. It's funny.

@CecilTheDarkKnight: Cynical much?

@tulanejosh: Haha, that's not quite what I meant. Three hours is an awful lot of time to drink, and the street can seem a mite unfriendly when it won't stop spinning.

@dagamer34: 6th street is fine until your third hour there, but that is by no means the street's fault...