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Sony To Set Compatibility Standards For PS3 Music Games
Michael Shorrock, Sony's director of third-party relations, announced on the Playstation blog that he's been working with the major music game developers (i.e. Rock Band's Harmonix, Guitar Hero's Activision, and others) to ensure basic compatibility for peripherals between the games. Joystiq has a compatibility matrix that shows which devices work with which games.
"...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."
Update: 8/20 17:38 by SS: Reader TheWolfkin notes that Microsoft has now made an official announcement to do this as well.
Holy battlesnakes! That actually makes sense! Thanks Sony!
Right now, it's a complete crap shoot.
The guitar which came with Rock Band for the Wii is a piece of crap, but it can't use my Guitar Hero guitars. For reasons completely unknown to me, the USB guitars from RB for the XBox don't even work with the USB hub that comes with RB on the Wii.
How is it even possible that a USB guitar isn't compatible across those two platforms unless RB only has support for the wireless guitar they issued for the Wii?
The idea of having to buy a whole separate set of instruments for GH4 drives me nutty.
It really would be good for someone to enforce some standardization so the consumer doesn't end up getting gouged.
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And yet none of them will be compatible with my Samba Di Amigo maracas.... *sniff*
This guy's the limit!
to own more plastic, game based instruments than i own real guitars, basses and amps. Granted, these games are fun...but it's getting a little out of control. I hope Nintendo and MicroSoft follow in the footsteps of Sony.
Yes yes, we should in no way think we are as cool as you are while playing these very fun games.
Standard argument: Not just anyone can pick up a real instrument and groove along with a song, these games open that experience up to more people, they have fun, etc. With RB/GH you can get people who aren't gamers or musicians having fun with music fairly quickly.
Bonus: we don't have to talk to you.
Won't that require either a Playstation button on the Wiimote, or a dedicated peripheral that doesn't use the Wiimote for the Wii version?
What a coincidence, so do I! It's not more fun than playing GH or Rock Band, though. It's equally fun. Some would probably say it's less fun, even (and they're entitled to their opinions).
You, and all the rest of the elitist guitarists out there, need to pull your heads out of your asses. Playing an instrument doesn't make you cool, nor is the fun level of an activity consistent across all people.
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Then stop playing shooters and buy a real gun. Same principle right?
I also own a guitar. My group of friends, however, are not musically talented and do not own instruments. I learned to play the guitar over years of practice and dedicated time; I'm still not that good in the grand scheme, and I doubt you really are either. Despite that, our little group has been having an awesome time with Rock Band after an hour or two with it, and it has become a staple of our free nights.
Be an elitist blowhard all you want, this is good news.
Isn't that what they are doing?
By trying to make the game makers "play nice" and getting instruments cross-game compatible, buying an instrument for one game means you only need to buy a game to play the second game, instead of needing to pay for a new instrument as well.
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towards Sony is making me feel dirty.
Guitar Hero 3 on the PS3 is a disaster. The only official guitar you can use is the wireless one that came with the game, and the USB wireless dongle seems to introduce some random lag and note drops (should've used the built-in Bluetooth). But you can't use the wireless GH3 guitar to play GH1, GH2, or GH80s on the PS3. And you can't use the wired or wireless old GH guitars on the PS3 without a third party adapter that doesn't completely work.
(I just bought what appears to be the best of the third party adapters, and it allows me to use my GH1 guitar on GH3, but it doesn't work with the "special edition" cherry SG wired guitar. And the adapter apparently only allows you to use the old guitars to play GH1, not GH2 or GH80s.)
It's a complete disaster - I can't fathom how Activision got things so completely wrong on the PS3. I was so disgusted by my GH3 on the PS3 experience that I bought an XBox just to play Rock Band on.
JRjr
Or you can buy both games without instruments, and since there's a standard on how the instruments work, you can buy third party instruments that are cheaper and work with both games.
I wasn't going to mention it, but I own a real gun too.
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
My understanding is that a console is supposed to be a standard in the first place...Sony, MS, and Nintendo all screwed by allowing the Rock Band/Guitar Hero compatibility problems to exist. MS at least screwed up the least by forcing Activision to use the 360's controller standards, resulting in the GH guitars working with Rock Band and no wireless dongles. The RB guitar doesn't work with GH2 or 3, though...I suspect it's a software issue.
You are a troll. There is nothing in the PS3 itself that prevents compatibility between games. GH3's guitar simply maps onto the PS3's SixAxis controllers functions. it is the connections, its the game that needs to deal with it, which is the point of the article.
As for previous versions of the guitars not being supported on the PS3, well that is to do with the fact that previous version were for the PS2, with its proprietary connections. The PS3 just uses standard USB and Bluetooth.
Have a nice day!
I've got a question that I've wondered about for a while. Maybe someone on Slashdot can answer it for me. Is it possible to use an XBox 360's Rock Band guitar controller on a PS3? I know it doesn't work the other way around because of the XBox's nonstandard USB system, but I'm hoping that maybe the Playstation just ignores the added junk. Anyone tried this?
It also show's that you don't know what you're talking about... yes the matrix currently shows incompatibilites exist... however if you've followed it at all you'll have known that Harmonix has known how to fix the issue, but was prevented from doing so by ACTIVISION... not any technical limitations. also if you read the playstation blog entry about this, you'll have read that they are currently working on resolving those very issues. however as of Today, yes it is the worst. within the next few days I expect to see a bunch of changes to that matrix again.
Given that yes these are the US versions of Japanese games. What about the Beatmania series of games: Beatmania 1-6 Beatmania 2DX v 3-13? Dance Dance revolution US&JP Drum Mania , bucketloads of them Guitar Freaks 1-LOTS Sony?
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Home Brew? Didnt i say it runs Linux? In fact there is a YouTube video of some masochists, booting Linux on their PS3, then running Windows XP in VM Ware, crazy, considering there is not a LOT of memory there!
1. There is no PowerPC hosted VMware
2. There is no Windows XP for PowerPC
It has to be QEMU running x86 on powerpc or the video is fake. QEMU is impressive, but it's no where near native speed. And Windows games have a lot of difficulty with the videocard that QEMU emulates.
Running Windows on a PS3 is a toy, in the future try not to present it as anything else.
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Just you wait until the Sesame Street episode covering copyright infringement is released.
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