Lately there been a lot of Rock Stars piling hate on the music game genre, saying things like 'it prevents people from playing real guitar' and it's 'It's shame kids are learning about music this way'. I've been thinking about doing a kind of 'counter rant' blog to this for a while now but quite frankly This article is better than anything I could write and the subject, so check it out if you want a good opinion piece on the subject. I find it sad that so many musicians and getting up in arms that the music games are going to stop people from learning instruments. It's just not true. It's got me more interested in a lot of different music and I did actually try and play guitar briefly (just didn't have the patience though :P ) and a friend of mine is learning Guitar because of it. As the article points out sampling was met with a similar reaction...and did that stop people from learning to play if they wanted to? ;)