Logitech unveils ridiculous GHWT guitar

By Robert Purchese Published 24 October, 2008

Authentic materials, 250 dollars please.

Peripheral perfectionist Logitech has unveiled a ridiculously lavish guitar for Guitar Hero World Tour.

This Premiere Edition peripheral features a wooden neck, rosewood fingerboard, metal frets, metal tuning pegs, a one-piece contoured shape and crimson body.

More importantly, for us at least, are quiet buttons - using some noise-reducing rubber keyboard technology - and a touch-sensitive neck slider.

This, one of the new features in Guitar Hero World Tour, allows you to slide a digit up and down the fret instead of fingering hairy passages - represented in-game by a funny line joining the notes together.

This Premiere Edition guitar is also wireless and comes with a gig bag to protect the instrument as well as store the USB receiver and game disc.

But what does this all cost? Well, USD 249.99. That's 160 English pounds, which is roughly how much an entire set of Guitar Hero World Tour instruments plus game will cost upon November release - and the RedOctane guitar seemed pretty good to us. And light.

You can catch our full review of Guitar Hero World Tour on Monday, whereas this silly old guitar is not out in the US until December.

Logitech, incidentally, was announced as a Guitar Hero peripheral maker back in August. We expect some rather fancy equipment.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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Comments (36) Latest comment 3 years ago

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  • Inspirius #1 3 years ago

    Beautiful but ultimately a bit pointless.

  • dazrichards #2 3 years ago

    er....buy a REAL guitar instead?

  • dr_faulk #3 3 years ago

    Why is it only a gig bag? Storage is cheap. I'd expect min 2 gigs.

  • asphaltcowboy #4 3 years ago

    2 comments, it only took 2 comments for someone to say the stupid thing...

  • Bleh #5 3 years ago

    It looks nice but than again the price looks nice aswell.

  • Salaman #6 3 years ago

    That's Fisher Price gone mad!

  • yupyup #7 3 years ago

    Illogicitech.

  • LiamK #8 3 years ago

    Fingering hairy passages?

  • dr_faulk #9 3 years ago

    @ LiamK

    I hope that's listed as a feature on the back of the box.

  • FooAtari #10 3 years ago

    2 comments, it only took 2 comments for someone to say the stupid thing...

    Well no, this does seem to be taking things a bit far. Doesn't mean he thinks you should play guitar instead of Guitar Hero. But you could buy a half decent Guitar for learning on for probably less that what this costs.
    Edited by 1 at 24/10/08 @ 10:23

  • BadDevotions #11 3 years ago

    that's ridiculous! I want one!

  • cjnic #12 3 years ago

    That is a thing of beauty.
    Unfortunately I am still burdened with more sense than money...

  • Rowlsten #13 3 years ago

    Fair enough for the GH hobbyists...

  • bengray66 #14 3 years ago

    It's a nice addition for the hardcore fans. Personally, Guitar hero for me is a thing that I would rather play occasionally round a mates, and not own it myself.

    And too who said it, £130 will not get you a very good guitar at all. You can probably get a poor quality acoustic, or a very very poor electric and amp!

    My latest guitar set me back over £500, but it's very nice :)

  • Eraysor #15 3 years ago

    Damn that is tempting. Being a Guitar-Heroaholic I would get hours of play out of that thing. Maybe if I win the lottery or something.

  • bengray66 #16 3 years ago

    that cost under £1700 to be honest..

    For that kind of money, your paying more for the "Gibson" than the guitar... Though I would absolutely love a ES-335. I've got the tanglewood TH-502 for that department (Which I still think is absolutely superb value at £205 when I bought it).

  • kiroquai #17 3 years ago

    Hmm, that £1,700 bracket would get you a rather lovely Parker Fly Deluxe, which is the axe I'm currently considering.

    On the other hand, I bought a Squier Strat for about £100 back in 1996 or so and still love to play it. In fact, I probably play it more than my Fender Tele.

  • dazrichards #18 3 years ago

    Can't believe I'm being flamed for this! I have both Rock Band and Guitar Hero plus 2 real guitars of my own. I love playing both the real thing and the games but I'd rather spend this amount of money on buying that new acoustic guitar I've been meaning to get for a while now than the game peripheral equivalent

  • teabagger #19 3 years ago

    Until One-Man-Band-Hero comes along I remain uninterested.

  • Gartt #20 3 years ago

    "For that kind of money, your paying more for the "Gibson" than the guitar... Though I would absolutely love a ES-335."

    The ES-335 is my dream guitar and I will own one some day. And you could pick up a decent enough beginner instrument for the price of that peripheral. As much as I enjoy Guitar Hero if you can afford to spend silly money on a replica wooden peripheral then you can afford to get a cheap real guitar. But then again its not instant gratification I guess.

  • InfiniteFury #21 3 years ago

    If I don't buy all the kit and just the software, can I play this like the old Guitar Heroes ie one guitar strip down the centre of the screen. Can it be scaled up as you buy instruments?

  • zsinj #22 3 years ago

    I'd get this if only it was 360 compatible...

  • mika1h #23 3 years ago

    Does this work on Rock Band?

  • Tricky #24 3 years ago

    It should work fine on Rock Band, but then Mad Catz have also got a wooden Strat coming for Rock Band sometime early next year - plus they'll be 360-compatible if you're that way inclined. (think they're doing PS3 ones too)

  • FortysixterUK #25 3 years ago

    It was just inevitable more realistic guitars would be released...I can appreciate it, but won't be buying it.

  • mr_chimp #26 3 years ago

    'instead of fingering hairy passages'

    Twice in two days. Keep this form up, chaps.

  • conners #27 3 years ago

    Are you suggesting we all have a mass debate mr chimp? :)


    That guitar looks stunning but it is stupid money. Then again, if you're stupid, why not go out and get it?

  • bslsimes #28 3 years ago

    GHWT has single-player career modes as well as band career mode. I don't know if it's more limited than band career mode but there are certainly plenty of gigs to play.

  • siro #29 3 years ago

    Actually I'd imagine this being marketed at people who do play real guitars and would prefer to have something feeling more "quality" when playing these games.

  • rprince #30 3 years ago

    £200 is usually about the minimum limit recommended for buying a decent beginners electric guitar. Yamaha Pacifica is one always suggested at the price level.

    But yeah, spending this much on an 'premiere' accessory is silly. If it doubled as a real guitar - maybe... I quite like the sound of Rock Band 2 being compatible with USB drum kits. Then you'll be able to use it as the game controller, then plug it into your PC/Mac and record some of your own drum tracks!

  • Bassassin #31 3 years ago

    The world is full of "musicians" who don't seem to appreciate that paying a fortune for an instrument won't make you a better or more creative player. The same is probably true of GH fans.

    Although in "real guitar" terms this looks like cheap low-end trash.

    Jon.

  • IneptPercy #32 3 years ago

    I got my real electric guitar and amp for less than that...

    I am a learner so I can justify a cheap guitar before I decide I wish to quit/carry on.

  • gmmonkey #33 3 years ago

    Lol it looks pretty cool. Bit pointless though as it does exactly the same as the plastic one. It not like a real guitar when you buy a more expensive one it gets better up to a point. This'll just sound the same..

  • citizenHUNTER #34 3 years ago

    The touch sensitive bit looks great, half the time I struggle pressing the buttons down hard enough (at least when it's down to just my little finger left), this seems like a great addition, finally!


    And yeah, I had to re-read that 'fingering hairy passages' phrase also. Thank god this isn't the iTunes Music Store, it's be having a fit today with that.

  • tomwhitaker #35 3 years ago

    Can't believe they want you to pay that money and have to use a USB receiver! Presumably it's so they don't have to make different versions for PS3 and 360, but...

    Now make a decent drum kit that's configurable to work properly with GHWT and RB, with 4 pads and at least 2 cymbals and a way to switch output between the two games. And have it fold up well and not make lots of noise. PLEASE.

  • TONYgr #36 3 years ago

    so we will have the review on monday.we will have a european release date too on monday?official i mean.