http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/rock-bands-bundled-guitar-to-be-wired-on-xbox-360-wireless-for/ Engadget Comments for Rock Band's bundled guitar to be wired on Xbox 360, wireless for PS3 http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/rock-bands-bundled-guitar-to-be-wired-on-xbox-360-wireless-for/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/rock-bands-bundled-guitar-to-be-wired-on-xbox-360-wireless-for/
MS, is proprietary wireless THAT much of a concern for you?]]>Sep 12th 2007 10:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/rock-bands-bundled-guitar-to-be-wired-on-xbox-360-wireless-for/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/rock-bands-bundled-guitar-to-be-wired-on-xbox-360-wireless-for/Sep 12th 2007 9:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/rock-bands-bundled-guitar-to-be-wired-on-xbox-360-wireless-for/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/rock-bands-bundled-guitar-to-be-wired-on-xbox-360-wireless-for/Sep 12th 2007 12:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/rock-bands-bundled-guitar-to-be-wired-on-xbox-360-wireless-for/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/rock-bands-bundled-guitar-to-be-wired-on-xbox-360-wireless-for/Sep 12th 2007 2:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/rock-bands-bundled-guitar-to-be-wired-on-xbox-360-wireless-for/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/rock-bands-bundled-guitar-to-be-wired-on-xbox-360-wireless-for/Sep 12th 2007 9:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/rock-bands-bundled-guitar-to-be-wired-on-xbox-360-wireless-for/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/rock-bands-bundled-guitar-to-be-wired-on-xbox-360-wireless-for/Sep 12th 2007 12:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/rock-bands-bundled-guitar-to-be-wired-on-xbox-360-wireless-for/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/rock-bands-bundled-guitar-to-be-wired-on-xbox-360-wireless-for/Sep 12th 2007 10:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/rock-bands-bundled-guitar-to-be-wired-on-xbox-360-wireless-for/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/rock-bands-bundled-guitar-to-be-wired-on-xbox-360-wireless-for/Sep 12th 2007 10:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/rock-bands-bundled-guitar-to-be-wired-on-xbox-360-wireless-for/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/rock-bands-bundled-guitar-to-be-wired-on-xbox-360-wireless-for/
I hate Sony for this BS, they are sleazy filthy dogs. I hope they go out of business one day.]]>Sep 12th 2007 10:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/rock-bands-bundled-guitar-to-be-wired-on-xbox-360-wireless-for/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/rock-bands-bundled-guitar-to-be-wired-on-xbox-360-wireless-for/Sep 12th 2007 10:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/rock-bands-bundled-guitar-to-be-wired-on-xbox-360-wireless-for/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/rock-bands-bundled-guitar-to-be-wired-on-xbox-360-wireless-for/
Peace,
-Nick ]]>Sep 12th 2007 10:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/rock-bands-bundled-guitar-to-be-wired-on-xbox-360-wireless-for/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/rock-bands-bundled-guitar-to-be-wired-on-xbox-360-wireless-for/Bluetooth is dirt a cheap and relatively open protocol, which is why you can use any brand bluetooth headset with the PS3. The "cheaper" 2.4GHz band that the 360 uses turns out to be more expensive because Microsoft requires a fee in order to use their frequency. As for bluetooth drivers I have no idea what you are talking about, you only use a pin to avoid device confusion. Also, 360 and PS3 controllers both have 49.99 MSRP's, but older 360 controllers can be found for less because newer (black) controllers have come out to take over that price point. Sony isn't a good company, but don't shovel it on when it isn't deserved.]]>Sep 12th 2007 10:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/rock-bands-bundled-guitar-to-be-wired-on-xbox-360-wireless-for/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/rock-bands-bundled-guitar-to-be-wired-on-xbox-360-wireless-for/Sep 12th 2007 10:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/rock-bands-bundled-guitar-to-be-wired-on-xbox-360-wireless-for/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/rock-bands-bundled-guitar-to-be-wired-on-xbox-360-wireless-for/Sep 15th 2007 12:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/rock-bands-bundled-guitar-to-be-wired-on-xbox-360-wireless-for/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/rock-bands-bundled-guitar-to-be-wired-on-xbox-360-wireless-for/
I am not a fan boy of anything but I hate Sony for that.]]>Sep 12th 2007 9:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/rock-bands-bundled-guitar-to-be-wired-on-xbox-360-wireless-for/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/rock-bands-bundled-guitar-to-be-wired-on-xbox-360-wireless-for/
You analysis is poor and without any insight other than being a Microsoft fanboy apologist trying to turn this into a "Sony is evil" thing. Ignorant.]]>Sep 13th 2007 11:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/rock-bands-bundled-guitar-to-be-wired-on-xbox-360-wireless-for/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/rock-bands-bundled-guitar-to-be-wired-on-xbox-360-wireless-for/Sep 12th 2007 10:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/rock-bands-bundled-guitar-to-be-wired-on-xbox-360-wireless-for/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/rock-bands-bundled-guitar-to-be-wired-on-xbox-360-wireless-for/Sep 12th 2007 10:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/rock-bands-bundled-guitar-to-be-wired-on-xbox-360-wireless-for/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/rock-bands-bundled-guitar-to-be-wired-on-xbox-360-wireless-for/The drums being wireless should be no great hardship, as (I hope) no one will be trying to walk around stage, carrying the drum set with one arm and beating on it with the other hand.
The mic will be perhaps the most annoying thing, but (I've never been to a rock concert, so I'm just guessing they don't use wireless mics) in the end realistic.
As for the guitar, well, electric guitars _are_ wired! If the thing _looked_ like an acoustic, perhaps wireless would be something you could clamor for without looking completely ridiculous. But this is game is not "Folk Band", so oddly enough, you get an electric-guitar looking guitar with an electric-guitar-cable looking cable. Deal with it.]]>Sep 12th 2007 2:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/rock-bands-bundled-guitar-to-be-wired-on-xbox-360-wireless-for/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/rock-bands-bundled-guitar-to-be-wired-on-xbox-360-wireless-for/
I will commend them for including a USB hub on the X360 version(PS3's got 4 in front, and I doubt it'd be trouble to add a USB hub onto those); so at least we can increase the distance between TV/console.]]>Sep 13th 2007 7:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/rock-bands-bundled-guitar-to-be-wired-on-xbox-360-wireless-for/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/rock-bands-bundled-guitar-to-be-wired-on-xbox-360-wireless-for/Sep 12th 2007 10:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/rock-bands-bundled-guitar-to-be-wired-on-xbox-360-wireless-for/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/rock-bands-bundled-guitar-to-be-wired-on-xbox-360-wireless-for/Sep 12th 2007 12:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/rock-bands-bundled-guitar-to-be-wired-on-xbox-360-wireless-for/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/rock-bands-bundled-guitar-to-be-wired-on-xbox-360-wireless-for/Sep 12th 2007 10:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/rock-bands-bundled-guitar-to-be-wired-on-xbox-360-wireless-for/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/rock-bands-bundled-guitar-to-be-wired-on-xbox-360-wireless-for/Sep 12th 2007 12:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/rock-bands-bundled-guitar-to-be-wired-on-xbox-360-wireless-for/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/rock-bands-bundled-guitar-to-be-wired-on-xbox-360-wireless-for/
There's a cost associated with having your own proprietary version of an open wireless standard while your competition uses an open standard to make things work.]]>Sep 13th 2007 11:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/rock-bands-bundled-guitar-to-be-wired-on-xbox-360-wireless-for/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/rock-bands-bundled-guitar-to-be-wired-on-xbox-360-wireless-for/
I've never had a problem with either system. So what kind of useless FUD are you trying to spread about the PS3? Typical BS.]]>Sep 13th 2007 11:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/rock-bands-bundled-guitar-to-be-wired-on-xbox-360-wireless-for/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/rock-bands-bundled-guitar-to-be-wired-on-xbox-360-wireless-for/Sep 13th 2007 10:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/rock-bands-bundled-guitar-to-be-wired-on-xbox-360-wireless-for/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/rock-bands-bundled-guitar-to-be-wired-on-xbox-360-wireless-for/Sep 12th 2007 11:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/rock-bands-bundled-guitar-to-be-wired-on-xbox-360-wireless-for/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/rock-bands-bundled-guitar-to-be-wired-on-xbox-360-wireless-for/Sep 12th 2007 2:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/rock-bands-bundled-guitar-to-be-wired-on-xbox-360-wireless-for/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/rock-bands-bundled-guitar-to-be-wired-on-xbox-360-wireless-for/Sep 12th 2007 2:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/rock-bands-bundled-guitar-to-be-wired-on-xbox-360-wireless-for/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/rock-bands-bundled-guitar-to-be-wired-on-xbox-360-wireless-for/
Don't mention the couch, unless you're drumming (and thus, not moving) you are forbidden to touch the couch ;)]]>Sep 12th 2007 6:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/rock-bands-bundled-guitar-to-be-wired-on-xbox-360-wireless-for/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/rock-bands-bundled-guitar-to-be-wired-on-xbox-360-wireless-for/
As for this game, it's no c-o-nspiracy with the PS3 version being wired, that much is certain. But as the article clearly states, the X360 games get the USB hub(which hopefully has extention cable of its own), so it's not a total kick in the junk.]]>Sep 13th 2007 7:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/rock-bands-bundled-guitar-to-be-wired-on-xbox-360-wireless-for/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/rock-bands-bundled-guitar-to-be-wired-on-xbox-360-wireless-for/Sep 13th 2007 11:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/rock-bands-bundled-guitar-to-be-wired-on-xbox-360-wireless-for/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/rock-bands-bundled-guitar-to-be-wired-on-xbox-360-wireless-for/
Both versions of the Rock Band bundle with the guitar controller are the same price. The Sony version has a wireless controller while Microsoft includes a wired controller. Who's giving you more bang for the buck?

This is a question of perception. Microsoft spins it that they are doing the consumer a favor by selling more expensive, due to it being a proprietary version of an open standard, technology in their controllers. So, in order to keep costs the same, they don't give you the technology because it costs more and the cost of the wireless version would have been higher than the same thing coming from Sony. The thing that Microsoft is worried about is the perception that anything between the PS3 and the 360 would be more expensive on the 360. They are selling the angle that theirs is a cheaper system. Yet, the games being more expensive would be a huge slam to their marketing. So, give them less for the same is what they are doing.

If the 360 bundle is wired and the PS3 version is wireless, then the 360 bundle should be less expensive than the PS3 version, but it isn't. I wonder why.]]>Sep 13th 2007 11:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/rock-bands-bundled-guitar-to-be-wired-on-xbox-360-wireless-for/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/rock-bands-bundled-guitar-to-be-wired-on-xbox-360-wireless-for/Sep 13th 2007 10:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/rock-bands-bundled-guitar-to-be-wired-on-xbox-360-wireless-for/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/rock-bands-bundled-guitar-to-be-wired-on-xbox-360-wireless-for/Sep 14th 2007 8:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/rock-bands-bundled-guitar-to-be-wired-on-xbox-360-wireless-for/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/rock-bands-bundled-guitar-to-be-wired-on-xbox-360-wireless-for/Oct 8th 2007 12:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/rock-bands-bundled-guitar-to-be-wired-on-xbox-360-wireless-for/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/rock-bands-bundled-guitar-to-be-wired-on-xbox-360-wireless-for/Nov 7th 2007 11:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/rock-bands-bundled-guitar-to-be-wired-on-xbox-360-wireless-for/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/rock-bands-bundled-guitar-to-be-wired-on-xbox-360-wireless-for/Nov 7th 2007 2:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/rock-bands-bundled-guitar-to-be-wired-on-xbox-360-wireless-for/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/rock-bands-bundled-guitar-to-be-wired-on-xbox-360-wireless-for/
It felt like playing a downgraded GH1 where you have to hit every note + sketchy graphics. I'm not sure which system it was on and I realize it was a demo... but GH3's demo is pretty much exact to the game at least in gameplay.

Expert mode felt like medium on GH.

Point being, look closely before you buy it... I'm skeptical.]]>Nov 8th 2007 3:34AM