Sony's Michael Shorrock director of 3rd party relations has today announced via the Playstation blog. That all 3 upcoming music rhythm games, Guitar Hero: World Tour, Rockband 2 and Rock Revolution will have instruments that are cross compatible with each other.
This should come as a welcome relief to Playsation 3 owners not whishing to spend the money or have to room to house 3 different sets of instruments.
each game's instruments will still have their own unique features, such as world tour's touch sensitive guitar neck slide pad. But basic gameplay will be unaffected by using a different instrument. Also of note is that the Singstar microphone will work with all three tiles as well.
For the past several months, we have been working closely with Neversoft and Activision, Harmonix and Konami to ensure that Playstation 3 guitars and drum sets will all feature a basic level of gameplay compatibility.
For the most part, this means that the titles with musical peripherals will work with the other’s software. A few specific examples include: Guitar Hero: World Tour’s guitars and drums will work with Rock Band 2 and Konami’s Rock Revolution software.
And yes, you guessed it, Rock Band 2’s guitar and drum set will work with Guitar Hero: World Tour and with Rock Revolution.
Conversely, Rock Revolution’s drum set will work with both Guitar Hero: World Tour and Rock Band 2.
In addition, Guitar Hero: World Tour and Rock Band 2 will both support the SingStar microphones.
We’re still working hard to ensure compatibility between the Guitar Hero and Rock Band titles currently on the market, and we hope to have an announcement on that shortly.
Of course each of these great games have their own specific cool features that may not be compatible with the other controllers, but this is our first big step in bringing a level of compatibility to music games that is sure to benefit PlayStation 3 consumers.