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No more rumors, Logitech’s claim at making “premium components for Guitar Hero” are real and Logitech wants your money this holiday season… they want all of it.
If you are a Guitar Hero fan, you might want to sell some junk to get some scratch together because Logitech has dropped a bomb with their new premium Guitar Hero guitar (for the Playstation 3 according to the announcement).
I really wasn’t expecting to see true instrument mockups occuring this early in the beat-based gaming arena yet, I thought we’d go one more cycle (e.g. Rock Band 3) before seeing these… but they are here, and boy are they awesome.
Highlights
- Guitar body is completely solid
- Neck is real wood
- The frets and tuning pegs are real metal
- Fingerboard is rosewood
- Strum bar is completely silent
- Fret buttons don’t “click”
- Wireless guitar, Up to 30 feet
- Compatible with PS2 and PS3
- Touch-sensitive neck and Star power button is there for Guitar Hero World Tour
- Long battery life (2-AA batteries quoted as giving “hundreds of hours of life”
- Bonus “gig bag” to hold the guitar in incase you travel to and from friends houses to jam out.
Total Price: $249.99
So now you have to decide, do you want the insane $300 Ion Drum set for Rock Band 2, or do you want this insanely nice Guitar Hero guitar for Guitar Her World Tour?
Update #1: Todd Swarthout just sent in a link to a 7-page DIY guide on taking a real guitar and chopping up your fake Guitar Hero guitar to mod the real one to be a full working gaming guitar.
Do you have a spare guitar to chop up? Do you have tons of time and a lot of tools? Then DIG IN!
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October 23rd, 2008 at 8:31 am
Wow. No thanks. For that price I’d can buy 4 or 5 games.
October 23rd, 2008 at 8:36 am
Yea agreed… I thought $70 for the new Rock Band 2 guitars was bad enough. I still do appreciate Logitech making it so shiny and pretty… I’ll let my rich friends get it.
October 23rd, 2008 at 8:44 am
I’m not sure even my rich friends would get it
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I did end up getting the new RB2 wireless guitar which is nice, but I can’t justify $250. For that price I should get a real guitar and a few lessons.
November 5th, 2008 at 9:42 am
Hmmm, the ION gives a more realistic drumming experience which can evolve into actual drumming. Of course not in GHWT, as they have effectively dumbed down the ION.
But all this does is looks cool…..
November 5th, 2008 at 9:30 pm
batsea,
Have you gotten a chance to rock out on the ION set?