PS3 Music Peripheral Compatibility Update (Guitar Hero and Rock Band)

[CurseoftheGods]

Hi everybody, Michael Shorrock, here. I’m the Director of Publisher Relations here at SCEA. I work closely with all of the publishers and developers who create games for all PlayStation platforms. While SCEA had a ton of great announcements at E3, I’m excited to say, we have one more for today, one that I know a lot of you have been asking about:

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.

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.

Conversely, Rock Revolution’s drum set will work with both Guitar Hero: World Tour and Rock Band 2.

In addition, Guitar Hero: World Tour and Rock Band 2 will both support the SingStar microphones.

We’re still working hard to ensure compatibility between the Guitar Hero and Rock Band titles currently on the market, and we hope to have an announcement on that shortly.

Of course each of these great games have their own specific cool features that may not be compatible with the other controllers, but this is our first big step in bringing a level of compatibility to music games that is sure to benefit PlayStation 3 consumers.

Keep an eye out here for more information in the future.

http://blog.us.playstation.com/2008/08/18/ps3-music-peripheral-compatibility-update/

[JustinP]

nice.  glad they're being more proactive. 

[demi]

oh so theres no actual update

[Mr. Gundam]

C'mon! I want my Rock Band 1 guitars and drums to be compatible. I hate the piece of trash guitar that came with GHIII. It's too small and noisy as hell.

[AdmiralViscen]

Paying for potential

This is waiting

Why bother

[JustinP]

supposedly RB patch is up that makes GH guitars work. 

[Mr. Gundam]

I hate the tiny Guitar Hero guitar. I want to be able to use my Rock Band 1 instruments with GH: World Tour.

[demi]

I hate Stratocaster because IT NEVER WORKS

Probably going to throw away (yes, throw away) my guitar pending on impressions on the new one

[Eel O'Brian]

when i get the new GH:WT guitar, i will never touch the Rock Band guitar again

it's a piece of crap, first one died about a month in

the replacement has a dicked sensor, so i can't use the tilt star power

i have no reason to have any faith in the build quality of the new RB2 instruments

[CurseoftheGods]

The patch is up, btw. Les Pauls now work in Rock Band PS3 (just like they did on the 360 a year ago).