The changes are minimal. Aside from a cosmetic facelift, the only major difference comes in a tweak to the slider, which will now send purely digital signals to the game rather than analogue ones. According to Neversoft’s Brian Bright, this change was made to reduce “the chance for error and latency”. Slight improvements have also been made to the guitar’s reliability, with the controller featuring a new, sturdier strum bar.
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Tasos Chrysostomou
Tuesday, July 14, 2009 at 11:43 PMi like it
James Wood
Wednesday, July 15, 2009 at 5:52 AMit’d want a sturdier strum bar.. mine doesn’t strum down anymore, and neither does 2 of my friends.
Epipsychidion
Wednesday, July 15, 2009 at 7:35 AMMy GHWT guitar doesn’t strum down either, and it’s my second one. I’m holding off until I can get a general impression as to the reliability of the new one.
crispy
Wednesday, July 15, 2009 at 9:09 AMyou could always drop AU$399 on a logitech replica guitar. but if i was u i’d buy a cheap knockoff till the gh5 one comes out!
Goraxium
Thursday, July 16, 2009 at 12:03 AMIf you know how to use a soldering iron, you can buy the torx screwdriver you’ll need to take the back off the guitar from Bunnings, and you can get a replacement switch for $3-4 from Dick Smith Electronics, Tandy or Jaycar Electronics. There’s plenty of guides on how to replace it online if you’re willing to spend a few seconds Googling it.
My strum bar started dying about 2 weeks after I got GHWT, and I didn’t play it all that much, but after replacing the switch, it’s worked quite well for the past few months (although I still need to bend the metal prong a bit so it’ll strum a bit better, but it still works, so I’m not complaining).
Scott Hines
Wednesday, July 15, 2009 at 9:43 AMAre we getting new ‘more reliable’ drums??
Sunny
Wednesday, July 15, 2009 at 10:05 PMI definitely think the drum kit is in a dire need of a ‘sturdier’ upgrade.
SkenZ
Thursday, July 16, 2009 at 3:27 AMHow is this in any way a sequel and not a track pack just out of interest?
This franchise is being run into the ground faster than you can say “Tony Hawk”.
Jason
Friday, July 17, 2009 at 1:55 AMi have a rockband drumkit and a gh3 guitar i wish to trade in and i dont trust online ebay or amazon can i trade it in a jb eb or game ???