Guitar Hero
In April 2015, Activision announced a new entry in the series, titled "Guitar Hero Live". The title was developed by Activision's internal studio FreeStyleGames, who previously had worked on the "DJ Hero" spinoff titles. FreeStyleGames were given free rein to reboot the "Guitar Hero" series for next-generation consoles. One of their first innovations was to drop the standard five-button guitar controller, ultimately designing a six-button guitar controller, with two rows of three buttons each, allowing them to mimic actual guitar fingering. "Guitar Hero Live" was released with both a career and an online mode. The career mode used full-motion video taken from the perspective of a lead guitarist underneath the note highway, to create an immersive experience to the player. The online mode, called "GHTV", discarded the previous downloadable content approach and used a music video channel approach to stream playable songs to players, adding new songs to the catalog on a weekly basis. The game was released in October 2015.
Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock
Sales of "Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock" were weaker than those of "Guitar Hero 5", with combined sales of the game and "DJ Hero 2" through the end of 2010 being 63% lower than the sales of "Guitar Hero 5", "DJ Hero" and "Band Hero" through the end of 2009. Initial shipments of "Warriors of Rock" were also bundled with a copy of Soundgarden's compilation album "Telephantasm"; based on its distribution with copies of the game, "Telephantasm" became the first album to receive a Platinum certification from the Recording Industry Association of America based on distribution alongside a video game. As a result of the underwhelming sales, also credited to the oversaturation of the music game market, the "Guitar Hero" franchise was ultimately shuttered until the 2015 unveiling of a reboot, "Guitar Hero Live".