Rock Band 2 instruments work in GH4 News
PlayStation 3 Xbox 360 News by Robert Purchese
Sony has been working with the makers of Guitar Hero World Tour, Rock Band, SingStar and Rock Revolution to ensure PS3 instrument peripherals will work across all of those titles.
"For the past several months, we have been working closely with Neversoft and Activision, Harmonix and Konami to ensure that PlayStation 3 guitars and drum-sets will all feature a basic level of gameplay compatibility," said Michael Shorrock, boss of third-party relations at Sony, on the US PlayStation blog.
"For the most part, this means that the titles with musical peripherals will work with the other's software. A few specific examples include: Guitar Hero World Tour's guitars and drums will work with Rock Band 2 and Konami's Rock Revolution software.
"And yes, you guessed it, Rock Band 2's guitar and drum-set will work with Guitar Hero World Tour and with Rock Revolution," he added.
Shorrock added that the drums from Rock Revolution will work in both Guitar Hero World Tour and Rock Band 2. The latter games will also support the SingStar microphones in the same way a loving family would.
Sony is working on ways to make previously-released music games compatible with each other, too.
Perhaps this means each developer will add more game-specific design features into their peripherals to tempt you to part with your money.
Activision Blizzard announced parallel to E3 that Guitar Hero World Tour on Xbox 360 would support instruments from Rock Band 2.
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Tiran_Kenja
19/08/08 @ 10:32
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In Europe it is good news for Harmonix I suppose, at least on PS3. They still haven't managed to release RB1 on PS3 here, and it is starting to look like GH:WT (aka GH4) is going to be out before it will arrive. So there are going to be a lot of people with the GH:WT gear, who don't want to get another set when RB finally rolls out in Europe for PS3.
But then, of course, it was Activision who didn't want compatibility in the first place. As they where, supposedly, the ones blocking Harmonix from releasing a patch that would make the GH3 guitar work in RB.
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grussbarbar
19/08/08 @ 11:05
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So it's become even less interesting to buy the Rock Band instrument pack now? Since it'll never be possible to make it work completely with Guitar Hero World Tour (one less drum pad), while the other way around (GH drum set with RB software) should at leasat theoretically pose no problems...
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kangarootoo
19/08/08 @ 12:43
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"Now how about a patch to allow use of Rock Band guitars on GH3?"
The RockBand guitar controller that I have tried was bloody awful. You seriously don't want one in place of a GH3 controller. Unless you already own one I guess.. |
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SeesThroughAll
19/08/08 @ 14:30
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Good one Sony.
Now patch Singstar to make it work with any bluetooth headset or mic. |
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