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Ever since the release of the first ever Guitar Hero game, the games have been a huge success and since that year, 2005, Activision have stormed the gaming market. Up until now Guitar Hero have released 10 different games, the first ones being based more on guitars. More recently, with Rock Band coming onto the market, Activision has had to include new instruments to keep up with Harmonix, creators of Rock Band.

However, with 3 new games in the pipeline, Guitar Hero are heading to get the edge over Rock Band with the introduction of a different game, without guitars.

Guitar Hero 5, Band Hero and DJ Hero are the 3 new Guitar Hero games that are due for release towards the end of 2009. The first one, Guitar Hero 5, is a standard Guitar Hero game, featuring the standard instruments as well as a 85 strong set list. This game does feature an improved guitar controller which should prove to be successful over their previous model.

The next game up is Band Hero, this one is very similar to Guitar Hero 5, however it’s more of a family based game. This is just one way Activision is trying to take the family gaming market away from Rock Band.

The final game is DJ Hero. Activision know it as much as we do, this is something brand new for the market, and Activision want as much from it as they can. A new DJ Deck controller is being released along side the game, the controller will feature 2 slider bars and 3 buttons. Because the game is for an entirely new target market, it’s difficult to tell whether the game will be successful. Although, if the game becomes successful, will Activision be releasing a whole new range of Guitar Hero games? Obviously the name would be changed from Guitar Hero. Plus, will Rock Band want some of the market too and release their own range of games to compete with Activision.

There are still a large number of target markets that haven’t been targeted by either Rock Band or Guitar Hero. One would be piano players. No doubt a Piano Hero game would be popular because you would get both modern piano players, as well as more classical players who prefer to play grand pianos.

A classical version of Guitar Hero is another angle they haven’t released yet. Classical guitars are hugely popular and by bringing out a video game like Classical Guitar Hero, you would almost be entering a new market because the age of the player would be different to the age of a standard Guitar Hero player.

They are just a couple of my ideas, but whether we will ever see these types of games is a different matter. The fate of these possible games all lies on whether or not DJ Hero becomes a success and how much revenue is created. Another problem they would have is working out whether a new game like Classical Guitar Hero would make any money for them.

These are all factors that would need to be considered before a new game would even go into production, but I would like to see some of these games in the near future.