Activision’s DJ Hero Will Fail

For one reason alone…it costs $120 dollars here in America and will cost our UK friends £108…that’s the equivalent of $177. Let’s not forget that this price is for a game and controller for ONE-PLAYER. For that price you could…

• Buy 2 brand new games
• Pick up a used SNES and a copy of Chrono Trigger
• Rent a decent hooker
• Get 5 lap dances and still have money for drinks
• Pick up enough alcohol to forget your name for a few days
• Rent a bouncehouse
• Buy enough velcro to cover a small room
• Get the equivalent of $120 worth of DLC for RockBand in an effort to ‘stick it’ to activision
• Take the entire website out for pizza

Well maybe not that last one, but the main point I’m trying to make here is that there are plenty of us gamers who do have deep pockets, but when we see a price point for a game like this, we just giggle a bit and look forward to picking up the game and peripheral for half that price when the newer version comes out.

by Alan Smithee

I sit upon my throne as the owner/shogun of this site, WatchPlayRead. But it wasn't always so. I too have had blogspots, I've done other community blogs, I've even written professionally for other sites out there...yet none of them provided the content I had a real passion for. It is then that I became tired of being a small cog in a big machine, and of writing about nothing but game news after game news article and the periphery that comes from such schlock, like knowing who Michael Pachter and Bobby Kotick are. I decided to start MediaWhoreNetwork.com and ran up my post count there for about 2 years, commenting about any and everything that I wanted to. I even started a weekly podcast that I feel has come into its own. It wasn't until earlier this year that I realized that having the word "whore" in your URL might be a bit limiting to my potential audience. I then made the website and its branding move over to WatchPlayRead.com.

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