Mad Catz has announced that the company is creating a suite of new instruments for Rock Band. The products will be officially licensed by MTV Games to work with the game, so have no fear about compatibility issues. Specifically, the company will be creating wired and wireless bass guitars, a wired microphone, and drums with "professional wooden drum sticks." Also mentioned alongside the instruments is the somewhat more ambiguous phrase "other products." We imagine things like instrument skins and the like, but it's possible other products could include other things like effects pedals and whatnot. Peculiarly, the press release specifically identifies the guitars as bass guitars. We're not sure exactly what that means, perhaps the guitars will ship without the extra solo buttons found on the official guitar? Whatever the case, the Mad Catz peripherals should hit the market in the first half of 2008.Oh, and it's probably safe to assume the guitars won't work with Guitar Hero III.
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1-04-2008 @ 4:15PM
JakubK666 said...
Don't their products suck or something!?
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1-04-2008 @ 4:24PM
Thursdae said...
Yes the products suck. Also... why make a wired microphone... The microphone now is perfect... Plus a WIRELESS one, would be great... Screw a wired one
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1-04-2008 @ 4:34PM
Brave said...
No doubt that these will break in a month for me :/
but I don't have Rock Band, and I don't want it.
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1-04-2008 @ 6:08PM
zlionsfan said...
What would be better than trying to hold one of those long, sustained notes on an Expert song, desperately needing to keep that 4x, and having your wireless mic blip in the middle, dropping the phrase to Strong and ruining your multiplier?
The wired mics have enough problems as it is.
I would guess that the bass guitar would have a bass guitar look, right? Four fake machine heads instead of six and all that. (Although some basses don't look that different than six-string guitars in terms of body shape.)
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1-04-2008 @ 6:42PM
Disco said...
I'd like to see a sturdier bass pedal for the drums. I have the stomp the hell out of it to get it to register consecutive 8th notes.
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1-05-2008 @ 12:43PM
shaolincochino said...
All I got to say is if they make a drum kit,
make the f..king pads quieter
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1-05-2008 @ 3:45PM
bob said...
mad catz products are always defected
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1-06-2008 @ 4:58PM
Jeramy said...
i was thinking they should make a bass controller with two buttons that you pluck upwards with your fingers similar to playing a real bass. then again, i already have a guitar hero controller, and it is mad catz, so there's hardly an incentive to buy one anyway.
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