Virtual rockers downloaded roughly 2.5 million songs in the eight weeks since the game launched on the Microsoft Xbox 360 and Sony PlayStation 3 systems.
The reason for this is simple. Games make music more interactive, more entertaining, more fun:
"Hopefully it helps evolve music to not just a linear art form but a more interactive art form," says Van Toffler of MTV Networks. MTV Games publishes Rock Band, along with Electronic Arts. "You look at a lot of 20-year-olds who are reticent to plop down $20 for a CD, yet they don't mind paying $25 for a DVD or $50 for a video game
Can we apply the same principles to images/photographers?
For the past few weeks, I saw my wife addicted to this simple iPhone game of 'spotting a difference'. The game was simple: 2 images were shown and the player has to spot the difference.
Today, I saw a similar Facebook game called Spotmania:
Is it possible then to apply the Rockband's music marketplace concept to these spot-a-difference games using photographs? Will the popularity of such games open up demand for unique or interesting photographs? Will such games create viable ancillary revenue streams for photographers?Or am I just being silly?
