http://www.gamespot.com/news/6303987.html


According to The Hollywood Reporter, Ubisoft will unleash Rocksmith for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Wii this September. The game will come with 45 songs from bands like the Rolling Stones, the Animals, David Bowie, and Nirvana. According to the report, Rocksmith will sport songs not available in Rock Band or Guitar Hero games.

Rocksmith was developed with realism in mind, according to The Reporter. In the game, players will strum along on actual strings. Ubisoft is betting that the game can avoid the fate of Guitar Hero because its players won't soon grow tired of learning how to play an actual guitar. The game will come with an input jack that is compatible with "most electric guitars" for play on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, but not the Wii.

Additionally, the report states that Ubisoft is in talks with guitar maker juggernaut Gibson and others to manufacture a $200 edition of the game that bundles an actual guitar with a copy of the game.

More specific details on Rocksmith are not yet available, as Ubisoft has yet to formally announce the game. However, the game's lone screenshot (above) shows that the game's note highway will apparently scroll horizontally, as opposed to the vertically designed Rock Band and Guitar Hero note charts.

Ubisoft has enjoyed great success in the music game genre lately. Its latest dancing game--Just Dance 2--has gone quintuple platinum, selling 5 million copies worldwide since debuting in October 2010.

how times have changed.

then: put on record, pretend you're playing guitar (drums, keyboard, whatever,) or actually play along, if you have an instrument.

now: pay a ton of money, then pretend you're playing guitar (drums, keyboard, whatever,) or actually play along, if you have an instrument.

next it will be virtual reality and you wont have to pretend but you still wont be playing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHCDa337kzI&feature=related that must be why activision wont produce any new GH games...they have something muuuuuuch more interesting in the pipeline!

I'd often thought about combining elements of GH and gp6
It would offer greater realism, be educational and fun at the same time.

While RB3 has a great deal of potential with the advent of new controllers (YRG, Mustang, Squire) it still has a long long way to go.

If anything technology has sparked interest in guitar study and made more guitarists better as a result. I remember what it was like to have crappy transcriptions of sheet music in limited supply and wearing out my records trying to cop licks. Had I had a tool such as Gtabe or those (GP, Tux etc) that followed It would have taken me much less time to learn songs.

Yes we had poser's back then who couldn't tune a guitar and couldn't play worth a dime because they wouldn't commit themselves to learning the instrument. They eventually would give up and move on to something else just as gamers may do.

I wonder if you would have the same understanding you have now though, I know while learning songs as you describe I learned a lot more by accident along the way.

It's funny.

A few years ago I attended an informal jam with younger musicians. I brought along a few fake books. They were awe struck that I could open a book and play a song out of it. I was just as shocked that they couldn't. And I told them If I'd heard it before I could usually work my way through it. I said "See the chord name. you know the chord play it. So we went to chordie and started pulling up songs. Okay no problem. I notice more then a few that were not in the correct key. I showed them how the song is represented on the page and then I worked thru the actual key. Again they were impressed and baffled. Granted I've been to more then a few jazz jams with old time professionals who like to change song keys to test one's mettle.
And I've done studio covers for singers who had preferred keys to work in.
Still I was shocked that these otherwise talented guitarists couldn't just see the chord play the chord like I could.

On the otherhand. I'd met up with an old teacher (I've prolly told this story on kvr before) and introduced him to band-in-a-box (BIAB) and power Tab Editor and later guitar-pro. This guy was my mentor he taught me more theory then I'll ever remember. He's both book smart with degree's upon degrees and is highly regarded in both his teaching abilites as well as performing/writing abilities locally. He was equally as shocked. He still would notate or tab in pencil for his students. He can transcribe extremely fast and his sight reading abilities are amazing. Still he was dumbstruck by my abilites to improvise with biab. Some 30 plus years before he was the one teaching me about tonal center's modality and playing over changes. And here I was explaining how to do the same thing with band in a box. Now both biab and guitar pro are part of his teaching tools. I feel sorry for some teachers who refuse to use or are unaware of these products.

Sorry to necro this thread, but a co-worker just told me about this game - looks like a fun way to do finger exercises - so I'm curious if anyone has heard when and if this game is coming out on the PC?