Ignorance runs rampant amongst people.
Guitar Freaks will NOT offer anything to the players that Guitar Hero didn't already do *EXCEPT* videos/visualizations.
2 less notes chords (1 if you count open pick), "wailing" super bonus! is not new (Guitar Hero used the guitar wail to activate star power mode), a more 'flat interface', god only knows what Konami will do to the music when localized, etc.
All these things are why Guitar Hero WILL win over Guitar Freaks if Konami dares to bring it over.
(P.S. People don't give two craps about difficulty, that will not sell Guitar Freaks.)
Now, if Konami brought over Drum Mania FIRST, and then complemented it with Guitar Freaks,
maybe they stand a better chance of keeping the franchise open.
However, they absolutely CAN NOT dip below the V
est series when doing so.
Admittedly, as I already said, V doesn't have anything new except mechanical red interface and music videos, and that's only for NEW songs.
Remember kids, licensing music videos is why MTV stopped playing music
.