I really thought that GH II...

....came with a wireless Guitar. Seems it doesn't. Wonder why I was under
that impression. Do they make one ?

Martin

Nope, MS won't allow 3rd parties access to their wireless technology

"mbcUK" <martin.cross8@NOSPAMHEREbtopenworld.com> wrote in message
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> ...came with a wireless Guitar. Seems it doesn't. Wonder why I was under
> that impression. Do they make one ?
>
> Martin
>

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>...came with a wireless Guitar. Seems it doesn't. Wonder why I was under
>that impression. Do they make one ?

Yes. They've got them for sale in Gamestation.

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Turbohat wrote:
> Nope, MS won't allow 3rd parties access to their wireless technology
>

I never realised I'd never seen a 3rd party wireless pad for the 360.
Maybe MS should have offered to make the guitar for them in that case.

Turbohat wrote:
> Nope, MS won't allow 3rd parties access to their wireless technology
>

Anyone know why? Isn't this anti-competitive?

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On 7 Apr, 10:26, James Luff <james.l...@nospamdsl.pipex.com> wrote:
> Turbohat wrote:
> > Nope, MS won't allow 3rd parties access to their wireless technology
>
> Anyone know why? Isn't this anti-competitive?
>
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> "There are 10 types of people in the world:
> Those that understand binary, and those that don't."

? It's MS's IP, why should they let anyeone else near it?

The whole world doesn't run on open source you know!

Alan wrote:
> On 7 Apr, 10:26, James Luff <james.l...@nospamdsl.pipex.com> wrote:
>> Turbohat wrote:
>>> Nope, MS won't allow 3rd parties access to their wireless technology
>> Anyone know why? Isn't this anti-competitive?
>>
>> --
>> regards, James Luff Gamertag: Lufferov
>> remove 'nospam' to e-mail
>> "There are 10 types of people in the world:
>> Those that understand binary, and those that don't."
>
> ? It's MS's IP, why should they let anyeone else near it?
>
> The whole world doesn't run on open source you know!
>

Indeed, but it's a feature of the hardware which they need to have
support for from 3rd party devs. They could keep the entire system to
themselves but it wouldn't get them very far in the marketplace if there
were no 3rd party games.

I don't understand why MS wouldn't release the details other than to
prevent competition. But this just means consumers suffer because games
like Guitar Hero are unable to be wireless.

Hence my initial question about it being anti-competitive. I'm sure it's
nothing they aren't allowed to do, but that's not really the point.

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>>...came with a wireless Guitar. Seems it doesn't. Wonder why I was under
>>that impression. Do they make one ?
>
> Yes. They've got them for sale in Gamestation.
>
> deKay

Saw them in HMV yesterday but they only had them for the PS2, no sign of a
360 one tho.

Lord Deckard.

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>>>...came with a wireless Guitar. Seems it doesn't. Wonder why I was under
>>>that impression. Do they make one ?
>>
>> Yes. They've got them for sale in Gamestation.
>>
>> deKay
>
>Saw them in HMV yesterday but they only had them for the PS2, no sign of a
>360 one tho.

Well, the ones in my local were also being sold as part of a 360 package
(360/GHII+guitar/wireless guitar), so I'm assuming they were the 360 version.

deKay
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"deKay" <andyk@deleteme.lofi-gaming.nospam.org.uk.invalid> wrote in message
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> Soni tempori elseu romani yeof helsforo nisson ol sefini ill des Sat, 7
> Apr
> 2007 12:02:14 +0100, sefini jorgo geanyet des mani yeof do
> uk.games.video.xbox, yawatina tan reek esk "Lord Deckard"
> <dontspammedeckard1998@spamoffhotmail.com> fornis do marikano es bono tan
> el:
>
>>>>...came with a wireless Guitar. Seems it doesn't. Wonder why I was under
>>>>that impression. Do they make one ?
>>>
>>> Yes. They've got them for sale in Gamestation.
>>>
>>> deKay
>>
>>Saw them in HMV yesterday but they only had them for the PS2, no sign of a
>>360 one tho.
>
> Well, the ones in my local were also being sold as part of a 360 package
> (360/GHII+guitar/wireless guitar), so I'm assuming they were the 360
> version.
>

Nothing on the Red Octane site for a wireless geetar.

http://www.redoctane.com/gh-xbox360.html

> deKay
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