Penny arcade nails it

[logicalnoise]

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/12/17

http://www.penny-arcade.com/images/2007/20071217.jpg

[Redebo]

Dude. Penny Arcade ALWAYS gets it right.

[TheTogfather]

I know, can't wait for the newspost, hopefully Tycho will destroy Activision. He usually weighs in pretty heavily on matters regarding Rock Band/Guitar Hero...

[SSPWOLF]

Does raise a valid point though...

If activision wins and the Les Paul never works with RB..

And HMX says it supports an open standard...


There's GOT to be some people out there burning the midnight oil to come up with 3rd party controllers.

Let's hope they aren't MadCatz ;)

I for one would love to see some high end, high quality guitars made for people who wouldn't mind spending a little more to have some kickazz gear.

(I'm salivating at the thought of Gibson, Pearl, Paul Reed Smith, Roland or Sonor releasing offically liscensed 3rd party controllers)

[Bluvox]

Might get a towel for the Gibson one.. since they are licensed to Red Octane it seems...

Plenty of other manufacturers that could get into the deal, though. Be interesting to see who/if folks jump on board with new ideas for design and how they work.

[Ventura]

I for one would love to see some high end, high quality guitars made for people who wouldn't mind spending a little more to have some kickazz gear.

(I'm salivating at the thought of Gibson, Pearl, Paul Reed Smith, Roland or Sonor releasing offically liscensed 3rd party controllers)

And I know I'd pay a premium for a high-quality drum set. In a heartbeat.

[Bluvox]

And yes, their news section is updated and worth checking out -

http://www.penny-arcade.com/

[Shayde21]

Harmonix should get ahead of this and offer to help them make a patch that allows Strats to be used in GH.

[Draconis77]

Harmonix should get ahead of this and offer to help them make a patch that allows Strats to be used in GH.

Activision probably wouldn't distribute the patch for their game.

[ChaosElement]

Haha "You're supposed to stick it to the man, not stick up for him"

[cjkuhlenbeck]

Give it a couple weeks and it'll be like the iPhone..with a million little tuts on how to tear it apart and get it to work the way THE CONSUMERS want them too...oh well, might be interesting to see what people do with those ugly xplorers..PS love the little frets(i got small fingers) and the full size( seriously..in what way is the xplorer cool?)

[Senkoy]

I never understood what was funny about Penny Arcade. They've never even managed to make me smirk.

[Quinarvy]

As the thread title says, nailed it.