Band Hero's Nintendo DS Lite peripherals get pictured
By Darren Murph 
posted July 23rd 2009 1:20PM
posted July 23rd 2009 1:20PM
Holding out for the family-friendly Band Hero on your Nintendo DS Lite? That wait just got a lot tougher. In a move obviously made to tease those already leaning towards purchasing the title when it hits shelves later this year, Activision has pushed out a smattering of renders that show a drum kit covering (ahem, Drum Grip™), guitar fretboard and even a pick to strum the touchscreen. Not much to go on, sure, but it's definitely good for keeping our attention while the dog days of summer drag on. The full, brief announcement is after the break.
[Via Joystiq]
[Via Joystiq]
Revolutionizing the music videogame genre once again, Guitar Hero and Activision are expanding the boundaries of music gaming with the introduction of full band play in Band Hero™ for Nintendo DS™ Lite. Band Hero delivers an explosive and unprecedented social gameplay experience for Nintendo DS Lite with the addition of vocals and drums – via an innovative new Drum Grip™ – to the guitar and bass gameplay popularized by the Guitar Hero® On Tour trilogy. Band Hero allows handheld gamers to choose the way they want to play in multiplayer mode with any instrument combination of guitar, bass, drums and vocals as they strum, drum and belt out some of today's most popular tracks across multiple genres of music, including rock, pop, alternative and punk. With the largest and most diverse set list in a Nintendo DS Lite offering to-date, Band Hero offers fans 30 master recordings from today's top artists including: Blink-182, Avril Lavigne, The Killers, KT Tunstall, and Fall Out Boy. With new features players can enjoy anytime, anywhere, a brand new Rockstar Editor to fully customize your band members, No Fail mode and Stage Stunts, Band Hero changes the way games can be played on the road.
As usual a discrimination against lefthanded people... smh...
As usual, discrimination against DS Phat owners.
As usual, discrimination against closing you're DS properly and instead snapping the screen off, forcing you to purchase a new DS
I SWEAR I saw someone with something exactly like this a month ago at a party I went to... is this just coming out?
There have already been 2 Guitar Hero releases for DS. You might be thinking of those.
@spazghost
I bet that was some rockin' party....
So you obviously can't play it with a DSi with no GBA port....but does the fact that they keep specifically saying "DS Lite" mean that you can't play it on the first gen DS either?
Clearly Activision wants to punish people who buy Nintendo hardware early.
The DS came out in 2004, it's okay for them to move on by now.
They've had Rock Band DS for a while....same guitar fretboard and such.
Also...what kind of lame party was that where someone whipped out a DS?
Was supposed to be in a reply to Spazghost .....user error on my part.
An engagement party, lol. I didn't know anyone there, I was just being paid to photograph the event.
Brilliant! Way to come out with a game that can only be played on an outdated game system. The DSi came out months ago, Activision, try to keep up, mmkay?
Outdated? It's still being sold, the differences between it and the DSi are not huge and don't benefit this game but rather impede it, and there are still tens of millions of them out there. Not everyone ditched their DS Lite/phat for the DSi, and for the record this was part of the list of complaints some of us had with the DSi and why I chose not to upgrade. A couple of bad cameras and an ever so slightly larger screen don't make up for losing the GBA slot.
i like COD games
I like toast.
I like turtles
Hope you've got four thumbs!
hope you have moving figures
Boy, that figures.
Last time I've checked you don't need 8 thumbs to play any other console
Hooray! More cut rate DSs with strumming-scratched touchscreens will soon be available on eBay!
eh
So instead of playing pretend drums, now you can pretend to play pretend drums?
Being a DSi user, this is mostly useless for me. Oh, well, guess I am not in the target audience.
I have a DSLite as well, that it will work with (like 'On Tour' did), but I don't carry that around much. And that grip really doesn't fit the ham-handed like me... again, oh, well. I am not really the target audience...
GAY