Guitar Hero confirmed for DS

Charles Huang, co-founder of Developer Redoctane has confirmed that Guitar HEro is making its way to the hot selling Nintendo DS platform. Huang confirmed that the company is taking some fresh approaches to the title but couldn't elaborate further to his team had the engerring paths laid out with Nintendo. Further to this, he confirmed that it is possible that Guitar Hero for DS will receive a custom peripheral to go with it just like the console versions.

CNET.com.au: What can you tell us about Guitar Hero III DS?

CH: We are working on that. We're exploring a lot of things. We're hoping to really bring the experience to the DS and to do some very, very different approaches. We're working through a lot of engineering issues with Nintendo. I actually came from a set of meetings with them last week about this. While the technical path hasn't been set yet, we intend for this to be a very unique experience just like Guitar Hero was on consoles. This will play probably unlike any other DS game that has come out, and at this stage, that's all I'm afraid we can talk about until we have the engineering paths laid out with Nintendo.

CNET.com.au: Are there any plans to have a custom DS peripheral?

CH: That is definitely one of the options we're exploring. The DS peripheral is very intriguing to us. It's an integral part of the Guitar Hero experience, so as much as possible, we would like to keep it within the experience as long as it makes sense and it plays well. And we can do it on the DS where it not only makes sense for the title, but also for the way people like to interact with the DS. It needs to be affordable and it needs to fit within the environment that people normally play DS games in, but central to it all, we are exploring ways to get peripherals on a DS game.

News Source: Cnet

on the DS now this ive gotta see lol

Without a guitar controller this is really going to be the least fun version of the game. Its not about the tunes or on screen action and all about the playing guitar for anyone who has played.

suhweet....i love my ds, best handheld imo......anyways theres another game either out in japan or coming out that you strum the screen with your stylus like a guitar

the whole add-on idea doesnt interest me though i only have 2 hands

If they actually release it with a full-size GH guitar controller....that plugs into the GBA slot.. I will laugh and laugh and laugh..

More realistically, they... um... nvm. I have no idea what they could do, "more realistically".

I mean, there are a lot of things they can do that would effectively nullify the DS's status ability to be portable. They could come up with a cool guitar controller--full size--that has like a spot where you can "dock" the DS into it. And it could be like an on-the-go GH game embedded into the controller.. But then, while that is more portable than GH for ps2 or xbox, it's not nearly as portable as the DS. You wouldn't play that on a train or a plane.

GH is cool because it's kinda like you are using a real guitar. I don't see how the DS can do that and still be like a DS.

I wanna see what they do with it.

seems pretty obvious to me, touch screen to strum, either the dpad ar 4 buttons for notes, top screen for the scrolling instructions, its not goin to be half as good, but i still think it could work. Rockband could also work like this, only without the need for additional hardware, ala diagasso band bros.

Sounds pretty awful. Any more details?

Sounds like dropping notes, and playing something between Tatsujin touch the dokoton ( but vetically ) and Ouendan ...

Wtf? Are they seriouse?

Originally Posted by kcvfr400

Without a guitar controller this is really going to be the least fun version of the game. Its not about the tunes or on screen action and all about the playing guitar for anyone who has played.

lol. I beg to differ. There is a mobile phone based version coming out too.