Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Rock Band: Only One Guitar

There have been concerns over the PLAYSTATION 3 version of Rock Band. The Guitar Hero controller isn't recognized as a guitar by the game, it is recognized as a regular controller.

Harmonix offered an official response on the issue, saying:

"Harmonix develops and bases all of our games, guitars and other peripherals on open standards established by platform manufacturers such as Microsoft and Sony. Rock Band is no exception and supports an open controller standard. Guitar controllers are like any other standard game controllers--the controller sends a signal back to the game depending on the buttons you push. If a third party game controller is based on open standards, then it should work with Rock Band as well. If certain controllers do not work with Rock Band, questions about those controllers should be directed to the peripheral manufacturer. In addition, we welcome any 3rd party software that wishes to support Rock Band guitars. If a 3rd party guitar / music game does not support the Rock Band guitar controller, questions regarding this should be directed to the game manufacturer."
Pretty odd since there have been no reports of the controller not working with the Xbox 360 version of the game. Did the PLAYSTATION 3 get the short end of the stick once again?

[Via IGN]

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

lol what did i say in my comment on the orange box weaker on ps3 post. ea is being a giant prick right now. i'm telling you. once the ps3 picks up, they'll stop being mean. just a bit annoying how quickly tides can change. i hate ea right now.

Anonymous said...

It's pretty simple, that PS3 just suffers from not having had GH2. RedOctane doesn't want the GH3 guitar to work with Rock Band, but on the 360 they had no choice: If they made it non-standard, it wouldn't work with GH2 either and the fans would revolt. On PS3 they were free to go non-standard, as I'm sure they have on the Wii (we'll see, when/if any other guitar games for Wii come out).

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