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Will there ever be a follow up in this genre or is it dead?
for commercial releases? absolutely deader than Cobain.
Clone Hero is super active, has people actively mapping new songs and is the only path forward at this point
Check out Clone Hero
Rocksmith is kind of a follow-up. Except you use real guitars, and you can only have two of them. Choose between lead, rhythm, and bass.
Try to find Rocksmith Remastered, though, and not the new subscription-based Rocksmith+.
I have a buddy who's literally learning how to play bass via Rocksmith, it's the only game he plays on the PS4 that he bought specifically for that purpose.
Act quick though, as the 2014 edition is being delisted in 3 weeks.
https://www.ubisoft.com/en-au/game/rocksmith/plus/news-updates/2aWHQHdEaMlORjQqmJwzmg/rocksmith-2014-leaving-stores
It doesn't even need to be dead, those fucking ghouls in suits oversaturated the market immediately because they have no concept of long term planning. If they had the wherewithall to have slowed down releases to every few years instead of every few months, this would probably still be one of the most actively played genres.
Basically this. If they had slowed down releases, even added new songs as updates or micro DLC packs in between, I think they'd have had something that would've worked for years. It was incredibly popular because the variety of play was big and the controls for each position were pretty basic enough to the point that anyone could pick up any position and play.
However, everyone had to have their own version inside of a year. DJ hero, American Idol games, every major band of the last 50 years got their own branded version of Rock Band, etc. It burnt the market out like the Great Awakening.