Jam Sessions Performance Bundle includes mini-amp for your DS

If the DS hasn't managed to catch you in its deathly, irresistible, touch-sensitive grasp by now, Jam Sessions just might be the title that pulls it off. The "game" is basically a guitar simulator, and while you can play along with built-in songs if you so choose, the real power of Jam Sessions is in the improvisational aspects: you can pretty much play thing the like a guitar, and that's where Ubisoft's Performance Bundle comes in. You can pick up one of these First Act amp / Jam Sessions bundles in November (the game itself hits this month) and really crank the tunes -- and finally annoy your neighbors in a way you've never quite managed with Guitar Hero.

[Via DS Fanboy]

[pauleyc @ Sep 3rd 2007 4:31PM]

pretty cool

[Allenxt @ Sep 3rd 2007 4:48PM]

Interesting enough..

[john @ Sep 3rd 2007 5:01PM]

I'm pretty excited for this game. The amp bundle is pretty useless though. You can just plug the DS into any stereo system with a line in, or any pair of iPod speakers.

[Sahil Shah @ Sep 3rd 2007 5:06PM]

That's why Nintendo DS is so awesome.

[Alex Rrrrrrr @ Sep 3rd 2007 5:14PM]

Bless it.

[FrankTheCrank @ Sep 3rd 2007 7:31PM]

Don't get too pumped.

You can expect to line out from your DS to this "amplifier", which is just an external speaker that's probably battery powered and can't push more than 5 watts. It will probably sound no better than your average clock radio.

Save yourself the money and get a 1/8" to RCA and run your DS to any decent stereo system or just use the 1/8" jack that comes with any standard 2.1 PC speaker system. This should gain you some decent bottom end.

Better yet, get yourself a Gibson Les Paul and a Marshall stack.

[steve @ Sep 4th 2007 9:44AM]

I agree with the last part... just maybe something cheaper. For the price of a DS and this mini-amp you can pick up a decent guitar / amp combo.

[cnp5000 @ Sep 5th 2007 1:27AM]

Why does everyone insist on marshall stacks? I'm so sick of em.

[jesseg @ Sep 3rd 2007 11:59PM]

I want to run this baby through my 100 watt Mesa Boogie :)

[nfbbman @ Sep 5th 2007 1:35AM]

In my experience, running these kinds of lines/signals through tube amps just sounds terrible. Since the guitar has already been 'amplified' by the DS, it will sound terrible through a guitar tube amp. Running through a solid state amp on the other hand may be fine. I know from experience - I own a mesa boogie amp myself (a modest f-50).

[channy @ Sep 4th 2007 4:55AM]

hang on, why not just like have a real guitar?
why do you have to have something that simulates something that already exists? thats why guitar heros great, its not actually a guitar... just makes you feel like a rockstar

[jimmyfinch @ Sep 4th 2007 7:58PM]

I [like] have 2 real guitars and I still want to [like] have this.

I don't [like] have "Guitar Hero" because I can already play Hanger 18 with my [like] real guitar.

With Jam Sessions I can [like] make music not just pretend by pressing 5 buttons and [like] have no real control.