Guitar Hero versus actually playing a Guitar?

the game Guitar Hero is the hottest game out as we speak. kids and there parents are rocking away with Guitar Hero which features alot of classic songs,but while Guitar Hero does educate younger ears and minds I gotta wonder what happen to the days of kids just getting a Guitar and a Amp and learning how to play? so much of today is digitial and computerized and done in a way that it is played all for you with you hardly doing as much. the Next Jimi Hendrix out here might be lost with the way the technilogy pushes for things that don't always require the natural sounds coming from people's own finger tips. i applaud games and i am a fan of games,but when it comes to music I want it to challenge the mind as well. something about learning about a fret board and learning simple chords and structure and changes all on my own is something else to me. the days of playing Guitar Hero and Being a Guitar Hero seem to be a thing of the past in alot of ways. alot of Guitar players have submitted there licks and riffs to the game.