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Guitar Hero 3 Standalone Guitars Priced, Dated, Pictured

By Alex Petraglia on Thursday, January 31, 2008 at 9:45 AM EST  

Update 6:30 PM EST 1/31/08

Activision has contacted a number of outlets who were kind enough to link to us today, including The Shack and Kotaku, claiming that the information presented here is incorrect. Because of this, I find it necessary to now clarify my statements.

It is true that Activision did not issue an official public statement today with these announcements. However, Activision claiming that our information “is not correct” may or may not be true. It may just be that this information is not yet meant to be made public. It also may be that Activision is now reconsidering the price-points, following complaints from commenters on both Kotaku and Shacknews.

When the company issues a press release with the full scoop, we’ll know for certain.

Finally, I sincerely apologize if you believe what I published today was misleading. As I said before, this information was not fabricated, but instead made publicly available on two of Red Octane’s own official websites. If anything, Activision is the one not telling the full-story…

Original Story

I previously expressed my adulation for the new Guitar Hero III controllers when we announced that standalone guitars would be made available in 2008, so there’s no need to relive that excessive fawning.

Regardless, RedOctane and Activision have finally ironed out all the particulars. Living room rock stars can purchase standalone Les Paul controllers in March. The PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 compatible guitars will be sold for $69 USD, while the Wii’s will retail for $59.

In case you’re afraid that you’ll have no idea what to look for upon arriving at your local electronic store, print out these images and show them to your friendly underpaid sales associate:

Finally, a collection of new Guitar Hero III screenshots were released, on the off-chance you’ve forgotten what the game looks like:

Guitar Hero 3 Screenshots

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11 Responses to “Guitar Hero 3 Standalone Guitars Priced, Dated, Pictured”

  1. Maximinian on January 31st, 2008 12:40 pm

    Any word on wireless controllers for the PC?

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  4. ThomW on January 31st, 2008 7:02 pm

    Re: Any word on wireless controllers for the PC?

    Buy a 360 controller and the 360->USB dongle thing!

  5. Shooman on February 1st, 2008 12:13 am

    This is odd.
    I bought 360 GH3 w/ guitar, and a week later bought a proper 360 GH3 stand-alone guitar. Which looked just like the packaging above.
    This was about 3/4 months ago when GH3 was released.

  6. Our Techno Lyrics » Blog Archive » Guitar Hero 3 controllers in March: $60 for Wii, $70 for the real game systems on February 1st, 2008 12:48 am

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  7. Adam on February 1st, 2008 2:40 am

    Wii GH3 guitars have been sold standalone from day one in Australia

  8. SONYBOY.RU - Sony Playstation, PS3, PSP, PS2, ISO » Blog Archive » Новости гитарные on February 1st, 2008 7:24 am

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  9. Ryan on February 9th, 2008 10:13 pm

    I was wondering where those stand alone guitars went on RedOctane’s online store. My 2 xplorer guitars died within 2 hours of each other a couple weeks ago so I was excited to see that I might be able to replace them with wireless ones in the somewhat near future. I tried looking for them again today but they disappeared… GG RedOctane. Not really impressed with your company at all (also, get some decent electrical engineers that know how to make ESD resistant device).

  10. Ben on February 12th, 2008 12:19 am

    to play with wireless guitar on pc
    i have to buy a xbox 360 guitar the wireless controller and the pc game version ?

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