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@LunaSophieRayne Yes... for starters...

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@LunaSophieRayne You, in a heartbeat. Of course, for me as a non-gamer, it's not like it's really a choice.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Activision paid $99.9 million for Guitar Hero's publisher in 2006, made over $2 billion off the franchise, then killed the entire genre in four years. Today that publisher's name came back from the dead to sell plastic guitars again.

RedOctane was two brothers, Kai and Charles Huang, who started out selling dance pads. They published the first Guitar Hero in 2005 and it hit $1 billion in North American sales in 26 months, faster than any franchise before it.

So Activision did what Activision does. Annualize.

In 2009 alone they shipped Guitar Hero 5, Band Hero, DJ Hero, and Guitar Hero editions for Metallica, Van Halen, and Smash Hits. Six music games in twelve months.

That playbook works for Call of Duty because a sequel only asks for $60. A Guitar Hero sequel asked you to justify the $100 plastic guitar already in your closet, and every new SKU competed with the last one on the same shelf. Genre revenue went from $1.7 billion in 2008 to about $300 million in 2010. Activision shut down RedOctane, then the whole Guitar Hero business unit.

They strip-mined ten years of demand into three.

Now the Huang brothers are back as advisors at a revived RedOctane, the studio head is a Guitar Hero veteran, and Stage Tour launches December 10 with 90 licensed songs and 180 real Gibson guitars. Fifteen years of untouched demand, and the people who invented the genre finally get a second run at it.

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@AshleyPerkins89 I was particularly impressed by all the books she donated to kids to promote literacy.

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@notchanelcapri smash smash smash

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@notchanelcapri No way!

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@Lunaraynebackup Gorgeous!

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@Lunaraynebackup Absolutely!

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@jazmynedayy Happy birthday! 🎂

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@AshleyPerkins89 Both!

[Jazmyne Day @jazmynedayy]

My birthday month continues! 🥳

[Obsessed with Jazmyne Day @jazmyneobsessed]

It’s @jazmynedayy’s birthday month! 🎉🎂
I think we all know what she really wants, but If you could give her ONE birthday gift, what would it be? 👇😂
Let’s make sure she sees the best answers! 💖

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@kristel_laurita Yummy!

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@LunaSophieRayne While it's easy to find all sorts of statistics, and some men certainly don't like them, there are plenty of us who do!

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@AshleyPerkins89 Lol... don't threaten me with a good workout! 🤣

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@ZeniZounds Hmmm... [redacted] much?

(not you, the tattoos)

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@LunaSophieRayne Happy birthday! 🎂

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@AshleyPerkins89 All of the above

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@Ava_starz <Christopher Walken voice> Hello!