Why Les Paul Guitar PS3 Doesn’t Work With Rock Band
- Scribbled on December 6th, 2007 by Jonah Falcon
- Filed in Interviews, Music/Rhythm, Sony PlayStation 3, WTF
1Up has an interesting article on the incompatibility of the PlayStation 3 Les Paul guitar from Guitar Hero III doesn’t work on Rock Band while its Xbox 360 counterpart does:
Guitar Hero III’s controller works in Rock Band on Xbox 360 because Harmonix worked with Red Octane on the previous Guitar Hero iterations; they know how Red Octane’s hardware works. Rock Band’s controller doesn’t work in Guitar Hero III, however, because Red Octane didn’t have access to the Rock Band controller prior to the game’s release. Thus, no way to test it.
Red Octane’s co-founder and VP of Business Development Charles Huang doesn’t seem to be inclined to remedy the situation anytime soon, stating:
“From our standpoint, to be quite honest, if you know a competitor’s product has issues, there’s not a whole lot of motivation to make these problematic controllers work with your game. Why would you want to cause yourself the headache?”
Thankfully, Harmonix may be forcing the issue:
With word trickling down that Harmonix will soon be issuing a patch to the PS3 version of Rock Band to ensure greater cross-compatibility, Red Octane, Neversoft and Activision may be left with no choice but to start implementing support for Rock Band’s peripherals in the near future.
After all, if Rock Band is going to use Guitar Hero guitars and not vice versa, what’s the incentive to stick with the latter?
December 12th, 2007 at 9:52 pm
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