New Guitar Hero and Skylanders games already discussed by Xbox
The boss of Xbox and the current head of Activision Blizzard have already talked about bringing back two of the publisher’s biggest games.
It may be the biggest news story in gaming since… forever, but there’s still virtually no detail about what Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard is going to mean in practical terms or even if it’ll happen at all.
Many have assumed that it will lead to Activision making more than just Call Of Duty in the future, and while officially Microsoft has said nothing about that sort of thing current Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick has.
He claims that he’s discussed reviving both the Guitar Hero and Skylanders franchises with Xbox boss Phil Spencer, as well as adding new social features to Candy Crush.
Although Kotick is not necessarily the most reliable narrator, he claims, while talking to website VentureBeat, that he’s wanted to revive both franchises for a while now but was prevented from doing so because they both involve complex peripherals.
Manufacturing the famous plastic guitars is made difficult by the chip shortages affecting all electronic devices during the pandemic, while the same is true of the toys-to-life figures for Skylanders.
Kotick seems to think that Microsoft would have the resources to overcome the issues and that he’s got ‘a really cool vision’ for what the next Guitar Hero could be.
One of the biggest franchises around during the late 2000s, Guitar Hero suffered from gross oversaturation, especially once all the most famous rock songs had been covered.
Activision did make a brief attempt to revive the brand with Guitar Hero Live in 2015 but it was not a success and there hasn’t been a new game since.
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