Aerosmith Exclusive to Guitar Hero

Newsweek this morning is reporting that Aerosmith and their music will be a Guitar Hero exclusive for an “unspecified period of time.” Activision CEO Bobby Kotick first hinted that the band would be “proprietary to our format” at last month’s Morgan Stanley Technology Conference.

“It’s an exclusive deal for this game,” Aerosmith publicist Marcee Rondon told Harris. We confirmed this with Tim Riley, Activision’s vice president of music affairs, who told us through Activision PR that “I can say that we do have the band exclusively, and their catalogue should be exclusive to us beyond the one or two tracks they had licensed out to Rock Band before we made our deal.” (According to MTV’s Rhythm Game Track Finder, it’s one song: “Train Kept a Rollin’.”)

Hit the link for N’gai’s take on the info he uncovered and why it was both inevitable and, likely, will not be the last time this happens in the increasingly broad genre of rhythm games.

The Guitar Heroes at Red Octane Lock Up Aerosmith With An Exclusive Arrangement, Leaving Harmonix and Rock Band to Dream On [Newsweek]