Can you play guitar hero on xbox series s

Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick has shed new light on why he is selling the Call of Duty company to Microsoft in the biggest gaming acquisition in history. Speaking to VentureBeat, the executive--who has been accused of knowing about and covering up instances of sexual harassment and abuse--said Microsoft has the size and scale to realize some of the ideas that Activision could not execute on its own.

Kotick said he spoke with Xbox boss Phil Spencer about new possibilities if Activision were to join Microsoft, and one is potentially reviving the Guitar Hero series.

"I wanted to make a new Guitar Hero for a while, but I don't want to add teams to do manufacturing and supply chain and QA for manufacturing. And the chip shortages are enormous," he said. "We didn't really have the ability to do that. I had a really cool vision for what the next Guitar Hero would be, and realized we don't have the resources to do that."

The same goes for the toys-to-life series Skylanders, Kotick said. "One of the great disappointments of my career is that other people came in and they came out with crappy alternatives. And they dumped all of these crappy alternatives in the market, and basically destroyed the market for what was a really cool future opportunity," Kotick explained. "If you look at Skylanders, with its hardware and manufacturing and supply chain, there are the same kinds of things that we can't do but Microsoft can."

Kotick also said working with Microsoft gives the Candy Crush series an opportunity to grow and evolve in a major way. "In these conversations I was sharing my frustration about not having enough social capability in Candy Crush. I really want to be able to have a Candy Crush experience where players can play games against each other. And they can socialize. And they can have voice over IP and video over IP," Kotick said.

He added: "That's a more social game, but it's rooted in being able to play the game against another person or other people. There is nothing but opportunity for the kinds of things that we can't do on our own, and the resources that they have for us to just make a difference."

The executive went on to say that the emerge of the metaverse also played a role in Activision Blizzard electing to sell to Microsoft.

"What really is the metaverse? It's not like Neil Stephenson's Snow Crash vision. It's the evolutionary vision of a collection of players. And I think players are going to be the defining characteristic of the metaverse. It's a community of players anchored in a franchise," he said. "And then those communities anchored in some bigger virtual experience that allows you to have either access to your friends or access to other content. I think you're going to see a big part of it is going to be content creation tools. That is going to allow for user generated content that can be either free or commercially exploited, and that's going to be an important part of what a metaverse will be."

Microsoft is proposing to buy Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion as part of Microsoft's biggest-ever acquisition and the largest in video game history.

For more, check out GameSpot's recent opinion piece, "Bobby Kotick's Payout Is A Small Price For The Good That Could Come From Microsoft's Acquisition."

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If there’s one thing I hope we’ll get to see on the next-gen consoles it would be the return of Guitar Hero. It would be so cool to continue those awesome Guitar Hero jam sessions with friends and family on the PS5 and Xbox Series X.

Who can forget Activision and Harmonix‘s hard-rocking music rhythm game? Guitar Hero, which debuted back in 2005 for the PlayStation 2, allowed players to join the ultimate rock music party with a guitar-shaped controller used to simulate a lead, rhythm or bass guitar.

It’s been five years since the last instalment, Guitar Hero Live (which was released on the PS4 and Xbox One back in 2015), and fans are craving a comeback concert.

Here are a few reasons why Guitar Hero on the PS5 and Xbox Series X is a good idea:

1. While there’s currently no official announcement regarding the future of the franchise, a new patent filed earlier this year for a music controller by Activision might point to a resurrection of the beloved game:

A music-based video game provides a user-directed sound generation feature. In some embodiments, the user is provided a video game controller simulating a musical instrument, which the user may operate similarly to its real musical instrument counterpart.

This sounds like good news for Guitar Hero fans. It just might mean that the studio is prepping a new design for next-gen consoles.

2. When you consider that the franchise has sold over 25 million copies worldwide and has generated over $2 billion in revenue, it all makes perfect sense. Studios like money and this seems like a guaranteed way to make more.

3. The title has always received positive praise, with aggregating review websites GameRankings and Metacritic both scoring the Guitar Hero Live release around 80%.

4. Rock music isn’t dead. With great new music out there, there’s definitely an audience for a new game. Just imagine rocking along to Pearl Jam’s “Dance Of The Clairvoyants”.

5. One of the main reasons that Guitar Hero halted was because of oversaturation. There were just too many games competing in the genre at the time. We had Band Hero, Rock Band and DJ Hero out at the same time. That’s no longer the case.

6. Those pricey controllers would probably not cost an arm and a leg anymore. With technological advancements, it could be that the product could be produced for much less. Either way, even if it wasn’t all that much cheaper, when you consider the prices of controllers and accessories available to the PS5 and the Xbox Series X, the Guitar Hero guitars probably won’t be considered that expensive anymore.

While many considered Guitar Hero a novelty title and a fad that faded very quickly, there are still many die-hard fans out there – and many more just waiting in anticipation for the announcement of a new game. Whether or not you consider yourself a maestro on the pretend Gibson guitar or just simply enjoy Guitar Hero as a classic party game, it’s no doubt a fun game and one we all hope to see revived on next-gen consoles soon.

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