Outside of obvious things like golf clubs and baseball bats, I don't really see this going anywhere. Besides, I'd hardly call anything related to the Wii port of Rock Band great.

I like how EA is pretty openly admitting that they're copying someone else's idea to fit current trends.  Could this company be any more blantantly coroporate?

They are dead on about the barrier of entry.  The new Guitar Hero sounds awesome as hell but eventually people aren't going to drop more than $100 for annual sequels.

Someone once told me that innovation is filing the serial number off of someone else's work and claiming it as your own.

How about an EA M-16 peripheral,

or a blinged-out Need for Speed wheel,

or a pig-skinned football sleeve (live size girth),

or a microphone stand,

or a Daniel Craig mask,

or a

or a

or all of them combined

DO WANT.

How about just not giving us crappy ports?  Granted the third installment of Madden looks nice this year.  But, not sure if anyone has kept up with news on NCAA 09...it looks worse than the PS2 version...truth.

We shouldn't see annual sequels of Guitar Hero anyway, as DLC is being fully introduced (and hopefully supported) in the upcoming iteration. There's really not much else you can add to that specific genre once you have all of the instruments and such in. Beyond that, it's just additional songs, which is what DLC is theoretically for. Activision sure does like to milk those franchises though...

Not yearly sequels, just quarterly sequels.

LOL... T_T