Logitech unveils ridiculous GHWT guitar
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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I hope that's listed as a feature on the back of the box.
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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.
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Unfortunately I am still burdened with more sense than money...
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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
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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).
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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.
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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.
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Twice in two days. Keep this form up, chaps.
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That guitar looks stunning but it is stupid money. Then again, if you're stupid, why not go out and get it?
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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!
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Although in "real guitar" terms this looks like cheap low-end trash.
Jon.
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I am a learner so I can justify a cheap guitar before I decide I wish to quit/carry on.
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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.
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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.
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