Guitar Hero

                In the article “Why the Music Industry Hates Guitar Hero”, writer Jeff Howe makes clear that if business men want to spend all their time dealing with the worry of how much money they are going to make off of certain artists and their songs from video games such as Guitar Hero, then money is more than likely going to be lost. If big time record label CEO’s like Warner Music Group CEO Edgar Bronfman keep attempting to deny video games of releasing songs, it is only going to hurt the record label in the end. By giving more songs and artists to these games which produce mass amounts of money per year, then more money would be generated towards that record label in the end. It shouldn’t matter what the overall amount the video game makes, considering it is enormously larger in profit than album sales. Album sales have fallen due to pirating and other cheap sources to buy albums; and having songs from a certain label on these games just further help generate more money back to the label company. By boycotting certain artists or games would be foolish on both ends. The more songs label companies release, the more money they are likely to make due to the rise in video game purchasing. Whereas if the label decides not to release any artists/songs to video games then they are relying strictly upon album sales; which has drastically went down.

                I agree with Jeff Howe, that the record label companies should continue to release songs to the video game companies as long as the demand for the games is so high. It would be a win-win-win situation for all people. The record labels will profit over the game, the game will do well because of the mass selection of songs; and the consumer will be happy that they have such a selection and not limited to what they could play or purchase.