Whenever I playRock Band, I always use my 360Guitar Hero 2controller. Reasons include a functional strum bar, a solid design, and consistent functionality. That’s a nice thing about theRock Band/Guitar Hero divide, for as long as they undercut each other, those mics, drums and guitars are going to work together, by and large.
Well, I had a chance to speak with the Creative Director ofDJ Hero, FreeStyleGames’s Jamie Jackson, and I asked him about his game’s proprietary controller.DJ Heroplays very unique, after all. Would his turntable be able to work with other games in the future, much likeGuitar Hero/Rock Band?
“No,” he says, after a short pause. “DJ HeroisDJ Hero. If someone needed to use our controller, then they would basically have to rip our game off.”
Of course, to be fair, the two DJ games currently announced,DJ HeroandScratch: The Ultimate DJ, are very different products, with very little shared between the two. It would be nice to not have to buy a whole new slew of peripherals, however, which has the potential to limit sales for both games.
