Remember when Red Octane and Harmonix used to be BFF, working together on the Guitar Hero franchise and putting instrument-simulating games on the map? Those were the days. Of course, now the two are bitter enemies, with Harmonix putting out Rock Band and making music fans say “Guitar Hero who?” Red Octane’s Charles Huang, after being questioned about whether or not the Rock Band guitars would ever work with Guitar Hero, had this to say:

“I don't think we're too interested in having their guitars work on our game, because they're having a lot of issues with their guitars. From our standpoint, to be quite honest, if you know a competitor's product has issues, there's not a whole lot of motivation to make these problematic controllers work with your game. Why would you want to cause yourself the headache?”



Yeah, good point, Harmonix… hey, wait a minute. Weren’t a whole bunch of the Guitar Hero III controllers defective too? I’m just saying.

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