Activision Blizzard will release a version of Guitar Hero that is...
Activision Blizzard will release a version of Guitar Hero that is “untethered,” not connected to a console, at an unspecified time, CEO Robert Kotick told the Deutsche Bank Securities Technology Conference. “I think it’s just a question of time…
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where you'll see” the TV as an “additional delivery platform” aside from the consoles, he predicted. An untethered version of Guitar Hero could provide Activision Blizzard with “leverage” from the console makers on downloadable content and the overall business model, he said. “You should expect to see many of our products will be playable” on a TV “independent of a console,” he said. Also, he said, third-party publishers are “usually … given about 24 months of visibility before you see a new hardware launch,” and Activision Blizzard had not “seen any specs, we haven’t seen any white papers” and had yet to be “consulted” about new console “designs.” But Kotick guessed that Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony are “working on new things” in the console space, at least on a preliminary basis.