Guitar Hero III vs. Rock Band - Controllers?
There is an article at Boston.com about the imcompatibility between the PS3 Guitar Hero III controller and the Rock Band game. The long and the short of it is that Harmonix has a patch to make the GH III guitar compatible with Rock Band, but Activision wants…uh…compensation. It really is a great big crock of steaming BS, because the only people who are suffering are PS3 gamers.
In other news, Microsoft is laughing all the way to the bank because the Xbox 360 version of Rock Band works with the GH III controller. This is because, in order to get certified to work on the 360, Microsoft forces developers to make their controllers conform to a standard. That way, I can use my GH II controller to play Project Gotham Racing 3, if I choose (not that I have). On the surface, it seemed like a way for M$ to strongarm developers, but now, it seems like a brilliant move.