Judge orders 7 Studios to release Scratch source code

That's where it's at.

Word is it will be compatible out of the box.

Yes, I'm a little confused as to why this is such a looked-forward-to game when Beatmania is exactly the same thing.

- - - Also if they're smart, the hardware will be USB Cross-Platform. This whole, "oh sorry, I have the X360 version, but you own the PS3" crap is really getting old. Especially with how much it will probably cost.

Appropriate username!

1 - If you've ever picked up a guitar you'd know that Guitar Hero isn't much like playing a guitar at all, it's like playing a guitar-shaped controller. Don't try to argue this point either, trust me for a guitarist that controller is about as un-guitar-like as all the various turntablism video games controllers are un-turntable-like.

2 - The intention of a video GAME is not to replicate the feel of anything, it's to provide an enjoyable yet generally not terribly realistic approximation so that players can have fun imaging/doing things they don't actually have the skills to pull of in real life. That's the whole point of GAMES, to have fun. Are you dissapointed that your FPS games don't wound you when you're playing them? Are you dissapointed grenade explosions in games don't actually make you deaf for a few minutes?

In short, please lighten up and get off your moral high-horse. You know as well as I do that learning to scratch/mix with any degree of quality takes quite a bit of training and practice. Not everyone wants to be a dj, some people just want to have fun playing a dj-like game, there's no cause for you to rain on the parade. Are you afraid people might enjoy themselves or something? Are you the fun police?

Putting lipstick on a pig still makes it a pig. Ripping out all that is essential to mixing/scratching/dj-ing and throwing in a cheap plastic "turntable" is cheap/cheesy/lazy. So you don't want to learn to actually dj. Thats all well and good and by all means buy the game. Thats not the juxtaposition of my argument at all. Read the first paragraph. The points below it merely adds to my argument.

1.) If the point of the game is not to replicate anything then riddle me why the use of a "turntable" in a game about, I'm sure you could come up with a controller method that used the Wii Nunchucks or the analog control sticks. GH actually replicates playing a guitar fairly well in a much more visceral way then air guitar even could do. You use the same muscle types and general control. Yes the micro-tactile feeling of putting together open, Barre, or power chords isn't the same but for a game it doesn't have to be. In this game you have what is essentially an arcade joystick where you hold down buttons and move the "turntable" back and forth. There is nothing to draw an individual in.

2.) Replication is key to drawing in an individual. Why else the push every four to six years for better graphics. Do a search online and you will find a gratuitous amount of hardware that connects to a computer or console that enhances the experience of playing the game even further (by adding scents, or a jacket that has you "feel" when you get hit in an FPS, or 3d goggles, or add-on physics cards, good old plans for a cockpit simulator, etc.). What makes the Gibson GH controller better then the new Fender knock off. The Gibson is modeled after a real guitar making your game experience seem that much less fake.

Lastly my comment was in regards to the fighting between corporations and how nonsensical it seems to be fighting over what will be at best a fad or mostly likely another corporate attempt to get at the urban demographics cash through a badly researched and implemented gimmick. How many more Devon's Ultimate Learn How to Dance Tapes are going to fill the landfills? Only you can prevent your friends from buying a copy of "Ninja Rap"...oh and the only real moral stance I took was in a proverbial rolling of the eyes at the fanboy hatred of Activision.