http://www.rockbandaide.com/3342/konami-scares-and-confuses-me/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=konami-scares-and-confuses-me All things Rock Band! Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:53:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.rockbandaide.com/3342/konami-scares-and-confuses-me/comment-page-1/#comment-4880 Jordan Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:38:46 +0000 http://rockbandaide.com/?p=3342#comment-4880 You're missing another important thing in that article: Konami never patented a guitar-shaped controller, or the use of which to play a videogame. Harmonix, on the other hand, did, and now has leverage over Konami. You’re missing another important thing in that article: Konami never patented a guitar-shaped controller, or the use of which to play a videogame. Harmonix, on the other hand, did, and now has leverage over Konami.

]]> http://www.rockbandaide.com/3342/konami-scares-and-confuses-me/comment-page-1/#comment-4871 Remoraz Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:10:45 +0000 http://rockbandaide.com/?p=3342#comment-4871 You're missing one important thing in that article. The first guitar hero was released in 2005. Konami's Guitar Freaks was released in 1998. So, when you say that Konami copied Harmonix, you're sort of forgetting that Konami created the game seven years earlier. I still think Harmonix did it better, but... they weren't first. You’re missing one important thing in that article. The first guitar hero was released in 2005. Konami’s Guitar Freaks was released in 1998. So, when you say that Konami copied Harmonix, you’re sort of forgetting that Konami created the game seven years earlier. I still think Harmonix did it better, but… they weren’t first.

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