"If you had told me in early 2007 that a $170 box packed with a game, guitar, drums and a mic would sell millions of copies, driving competitors to develop their own expensive band-in-a-box games, I would have called you crazy. If you’d told me in early 2008 that Rock Band and its progenitor-turned-competition, Guitar Hero, would be all but dead by 2011, I would have been too busy playing Rock Band to hear you."

- Mike Fahey, Kotaku