George_Wrisley August 18, 2008 PlayStation 3, Tech, Xbox 360 1 views Comments Print This Post  Email This Post

According to videogaming247, Sony has worked out a deal so that at least some of the music peripherals for games such as Guitar Hero and Rock Band will be cross-compatible:

SCEA’s done some power-brokering and, according to this post on the
US PS Blog, has got Konami, EA and Activision to agree to let guitars,
drums and the like work across each other’s rhythm action games.

Says SCEA’s Michael Shorrock:

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.

Having written about this before, I am really happy to see this.

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