Guitar Hero III's wireless PS3 guitar rocking a dongle

[Shrygue]

via Joystiq




The wireless Guitar Hero III guitars for PlayStation 3 will not work seemlessly with the console's Bluetooth technology, instead requiring a dongle that plugs into the USB ports. On the plus side, as noted by Wired's Chris Kohler, is that the dongles are modeled after guitar picks. Much more appealing than a boring, black brick.

Rock Band's wireless PS3 guitar also showed up recently in an FCC filing with a mysterious (albeit less attractive) dongle solution, which presumably will ship with the final product. Maybe by then, however, the Harmonix gang will pretty their dongle up.

[SSaxdude]

I think that dongle looks pretty cool, it's a guitar pick.

[winxp64]

could we do without the cord? seems kinda funky to me :-(

[VexnadFett]

damn... no bluetooth.... oh well... least the ps3 gets wireless...

[Triv1um]

That sucks... Bluetooth is faster right. For a game like Guitar Hero you want it too be as fast as possible.

[F9zDark]

Yeah I'd like to know why they went with a dongle... I hope they aren't using Infrared... That would suck, only because we have Bluetooth built into the PS3.

But maybe the developers were wary of bluetooth disconnections ruining people's games, which as far as I know has been eliminated...