Rock Band 4 Will Support Guitar Hero Guitars

One of the key improvements introduced to the upcoming Guitar Hero Live is its redesigned guitar controller, but don’t throw your old Guitar Hero and/or Rock Band guitars yet.

Like Guitar Hero, Rock Band is getting a new release this year. Unlike it though, the new Rock Band plans to support existing controllers, including the one developed by its competitors.

Speaking to Business Insider UK, Rock Band 4 director Daniel Sussman confirmed that the game will support all existing Rock Band peripherals in addition to Guitar Hero guitars.

“We’re planning to support everything that we can: That includes all of the old ‘Rock Band’ controllers, and all the old ‘Guitar Hero’ controllers,” a-t-il déclaré.

“Our position is really all about respect for our consumers and for the money that they have spent to get into the game space in the first place. They spend a fortune on games: on consoles, on hardware, and we’re sensitive to that,” a-t-il ajouté. “We play those games too. We buy all the same stuff. A world where you need to have three different guitars and two drum sets and all this stuff is…we don’t want to support that world.”

Rock Band 4 team intends to support the new Guitar Hero Live guitar, but they “won’t know for sure until [they] get one in the office” after the game is released.