Why Rock Band is Pure Genius

Chalk this up as another episode of "Damn, I should've thought of that!"

But seriously...DAMN! The magic formula is now incredibly obvious: Take something that is amazingly (let me repeat: amazingly) out of reach for 99.9999% of population, and just make it more achievable.

That’s it???

It appears so. Think about it - Monopoly allows you to buy rich properties like the board walk (can you really buy a whole board walk?)...Super Mario lets you rescue a damsel in distress...and Sonic the hedgehog lets you gather hundreds of pure golden rings.

Make something previously unachievable almost a sure thing...and you'll make a previously unattainable amount of money in a short time. Rock Band is pure gold.