I liked Guitar Hero enough to return to gaming and to buy what I thought was the most cutting edge console – the PS3. I even went out of my way to find a 60gb PS3 for the hardware compatability.

…and then I found out that the controllers wouldn’t work, even though the game starts right up like a champ.

Activision needs to take the high-road here, and deliver on the good faith that it’s GH, GH2 and GH80’s customers have shown them by buying their products for the last few years.

Sony needs to recognize as well, that the longer it sits on the fence and refuses to bring Activision to the table with Harmonix/MTV, that they are allowing them both to de-value their console system. It’s one thing if we were talking about a mildly popular game, but the Guitar Hero franchise is a MAJOR revenue stream to disenfranchise with petty behavior.

GHIII isn’t the only knobbled PS3 game under the Activision banner.
They also ‘own’ Call of Duty 4 and PS3 support, particularly server hosting outside of the U.S,, is woeful.

I’m suggesting that it appears that Activision is having an issue with supporting [b]anything[/b] on the PS3, for whatever reason.

(Even getting on the official GHIII web-site and linking your GHIII game account to a PC-based web-account is more painful that it would seem worth.)

Make your opinion heard.

-GOOS

http://www.kotaku.com.au/games/2007/12/activision_on_gh_not_so_fast_m.html

If a person buys a game with a peripheral it should work with any other game thats similar, ex: Arcade fighting stick, Dance pad, Flight stick. Why be cheap and not allow it to be used if it can be, its pretty lame if u ask me. so Screw you Activision and EA for being cheap. Get over your one sidedness and let the people share their peripherals, they own the damn things after buying it.

If gamers have the option of either a RB or GH controller as my second Rock Band controller, those who don’t have GH3 will pick up the game simply because it’s cheaper than a Rock Band bundle, and they get to play both the games.

Denying gamers that option, regardless of whose fault it is, is stupid.

Yeah, who doesn’t now see that Harmonix probably planned this all along. There has got to be some bad blood between them and Activision or something, otherwise support should have been there from day one. This was a slick move by Harmonix to shift all the hate on Activision now. Now they (Harmonix) can shrugg their shoulders and claim “See? It’s not our fault…”

This whole debacle now actually makes the 360’s proprietary (read: “closed format”) controller scheme seem more appealing now. Realistically, the only company has say in what works with what on the 360 is Microsoft. Royalties be damned, it at least guarantees a unified standard.

“Open format” != standard.

I cringe everytime I see Harmonix pat itself on the back while preaching how it supports an “open format”. Open formats only work if everone hops on your bandwagon. Sometimes it’s better to force everyone to use a standard.