Electric?

[TheDmon]

Any hint at how much more complex the guitar controller is going to be? More frets, individual strings, ect?

[HMXWhitestar19]

Sorry, can't give out any hints... but the guitar will be awesome.

[bounchfx]

<p>well, I was hoping we would be able to use the GH guitars.. apparently not.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>and now I am worried about the price. but I'm guessing there will be bundles, say, one of my friends gets Rock Band: Drummer while I pick up Rock Band: Lead Guitar, etc, or maybe an all in one pack as well</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>although, whatever the price, I'm going to be all over it.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>i'm going to love this game, I'm so happy online will be a big part.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>now only if the library of songs could be in the thousands, THAT would be amazing. but I'm not gonna push it.. :)&nbsp;</p>

[Rainer7]

<p>I hope it's just one big package, so you can just get them all out of the way (and why wouldn't you want to own every instrument?).&nbsp; And yeah I'm also curious as to how the guitar will defer from GH's guitar (possibly pedals?&nbsp; Hmm)</p><p>&nbsp;And as for songs in the thousands, :D I highly doubt, however I don't foresee this franchise having sequels because the online portion is being boasted about.&nbsp; So I think we'll be seeing microtransactions for additional songs and other extras.<br></p>

[Mushaboom]

Part of me wishes for it to be an "either or" type of deal. <br>

[DesktopMan]

<p>Smaller buttons, two or three more would be excellent :) Or maybe lay them out a bit like real strings?</p><p>I'm looking forward to seeing the drum set. Also being able to use the Guitar Hero controller would be nice, though I doubt they'd make their own guitar that generic.&nbsp;</p>

[sa_nick]

<p>As cool as the current GH contoler is, I can imagine them radicly improving it for Rock Band. I dont know how but I hope it's good. Even small things such as adding a zero fret where u just strum&nbsp; (although that wouldnt change the controller, just the game) but whatever, its gonna rock.</p><p>&nbsp;As for how its going to be sold... i have no idea. Will the guitar and bass players use the same controller or will a Bass controller be released? Are there going to be radical differences between ps3 and xbox controllers? Will i need to hire a trailer to transport my Rock Band drum kit from the store to my house?<br></p>

[Smidget]

<P>I don't think the&nbsp;guitar/bass will use strings; it would alienate a lot of potential customers. If they are implamenting some kind of string system that they know WON'T alienate people then, wow. Perhaps a string/button combination system?&nbsp;If it adds more buttons, do you think it would be down the&nbsp;neck or do a side by side thing. Like, imagine the GH buttons cut in half (down the line of the neck)&nbsp;so you have 2 rows of&nbsp;5 buttons. Probably be too cramped *shrug* Having too many more buttons down the neck would get kinda silly. Who knows...</P>

[rspooky]

PEDAL SUpport Pleaze :p<BR/><BR/>

[Dustjavo]

what if they make the bass and guitar different. That would be pretty cool playing an actual bass controller rather than a guitar like in GH2. But damn, this would cost nearly $150 to bundle in all of them!<br>

[Rainer7]

I was looking at around $200<br>

[exoscoriae]

<p>if you figure 50 on the game, and 50 for each piece of equipment, then your talking about AT LEAST $250 for this thing...</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Granted, thats a bit high for the microphone, but thats also low for any type of drum setup... so it equals out.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Who knows.. damned speculation.&nbsp;</p>

[evhfan94]

I think it was GS that posted it as being about 300 dollars for everything in a bundle.

[phishie]

Well, what I'm hoping for the peripherals is:

As for the guitar, try straying as far away from GH as possible with design and play as possible. I mean, it's nice and all, but I'd much rather do it like this: fully plastic guitar (to lower the price) along with plastic strings, not exactly tuneable, but more like a clicking device allowing the guitarist/bassist to change to drop d or drop c tuning, or anything else. Finally, maybe a pick-up to send the waves into the cord and have it much like a digital guitar tuner (which is quite cheap) indentifying the note played and matching it up with a song you want to play in a campaign mode of sorts, and possibly displaying the note to your band members on the screen so they can be in key when writing a song. If they go with the button crap then they're just going to end up being a 3rd party GH3, which is bad.

For the drums, a lap held digital set is pretty much your only option. People aren't going to want to pay so much on a giant digital drum set.

Microphone should be priced a bit lower than the other instruments, maybe to keep the prices even make each mic come with a back up?