**Post title is a link to a Kotaku article revealing the culprit.**
*Gasp!!*
Wal-Mart, how could you? Leading us poor rock-starved gamers to believe that Microsoft had sold us short! When all along, it was YOU who robbed us of the wireless technology!! How do you people sleep at night? A plague! A plague on both your houses!!
Seriously though, I have no idea what the real deal is with this. Just be forewarned: If you own a 360 and want the wireless guitar, don't go to Wal-Mart. You won't find it there.
Many thanks to my gaming counterpart, Smokeblue, for sending me this information.
Until my next random pointless report, I remain,
The Coconutter
Monday, November 5, 2007
Sunday, November 4, 2007
And so it begins...
Greetings, good citizens of Blogger-land. I am the one known as The Coconutter. I am wanted in many cities on three separate counts of Grand Theft Coconut. (Props to anybody who catches the obscure reference.) But that's not important right now. What is important is the start of this blog.
By no means is this my first attempt at blogging, nor is this a replacement to my current blog. I will be reporting various happenings and observations of no particular recurring theme. I have some delusion of becoming famous in this manner. How exactly I plan to do this is unknown at the moment. I haven't gotten that far in my planning.
Anyway, here goes my first bit of reporting, if you want to call it that.
Guitar Hero III came out earlier this week, much to the excitement of gamers everywhere. I didn't get it, yet. I figure I'd just as soon wait till Christmas, or even later than that. Not like it's going anywhere. I have plenty of other games to keep me busy until then. At any rate, I was following (not religiously by any means) news and reviews of the most recent installment in the series. What had me (and everyone else I'm sure) looking forward to it was the promise of a wireless guitar bundle on all systems, including the Xbox360. I don't own an Xbox of any kind (though I am now saving up for a 360), but I know there was a lot of bitching when Guitar Hero II came out on the 360 with a corded guitar, so I could well imagine that this bit of news gained joyous reception.
Thursday evening, I was at Wal-Mart with my father and brother. I wandered over to the electronics section to pick up a third new headset for my phone (our puppy had chewed and destroyed both previous ones). After I found the one I wanted, I wasted a bit more time wandering around in electronics. (It is my favorite department, after all.) The Guitar Hero III display caught my eye, and I went over to take a look at the bundle packs they had on the shelf. I looked at the Playstation 3 bundle pack, with wireless guitar. I looked at the Wii bundle pack, with wireless guitar. I looked at the Xbox360 bundle pack, with....
What's this? A corded guitar? Surely there must be some mistake, yes?
Nope.
Sure enough, there was the Xbox360 bundle pack with the same damn corded guitar controller from the GH2 bundle pack. I looked through all the stacks they had on display, just to make sure. Alas, the wireless guitar was not to be found.
After a moment's recollection, I thought perhaps I had misread my Game Informer article. So when we got back home, I pulled out the Dead Space issue (October, Issue 174) and flipped to the GH3 review. Sure enough, there it was, on page 108: a picture of the wireless guitar, with the words "Xbox360 model shown" in bold white print underneath.
I thought to myself, "Perhaps Wal-Mart was merely sold out of the wireless bundle pack." So I went to the Wal-Mart website, to see if it said "out of stock" or something like that. But no, I did not find such information. I did more research after that, but I'll save you some time: There was no wireless guitar bundle for the Xbox360.
I could not help but laugh at the sheer foolishness of it all. I wouldn't know who to blame, Microsoft or Harmonix/Red Octane, but somebody's gotta have their head up their ass. Even the PS2 version had a wireless bundle pack. That's just sad.
I discussed the issue with my gaming counterpart, SmokeBlue, who said that he read somewhere that a wireless guitar will be available some time in December. As for me, the tiny bit of information I found suggested that there were technical difficulties with the 360 version of the wireless guitar. At any rate, there is currently no damn wireless guitar controller available yet for the Xbox360.
Personally, I enjoy the mental image of a thousand and one angry gamers storming the Microsoft headquarters, armed with pitchforks and corded guitars, strangling the higher-ups responsible for this oversight. "Damn you corporate bastards not sharing your wireless technology!! Now die by the very same cords with which you have restrained our rockage!!!" *choke strangle die* "FREEEEEEEE BIIIIIIIRRRD!!!!!!!!!!"
*ahem*
Sorry you had to see that.
Until my next pointless report, I remain,
The Coconutter
By no means is this my first attempt at blogging, nor is this a replacement to my current blog. I will be reporting various happenings and observations of no particular recurring theme. I have some delusion of becoming famous in this manner. How exactly I plan to do this is unknown at the moment. I haven't gotten that far in my planning.
Anyway, here goes my first bit of reporting, if you want to call it that.
Guitar Hero III came out earlier this week, much to the excitement of gamers everywhere. I didn't get it, yet. I figure I'd just as soon wait till Christmas, or even later than that. Not like it's going anywhere. I have plenty of other games to keep me busy until then. At any rate, I was following (not religiously by any means) news and reviews of the most recent installment in the series. What had me (and everyone else I'm sure) looking forward to it was the promise of a wireless guitar bundle on all systems, including the Xbox360. I don't own an Xbox of any kind (though I am now saving up for a 360), but I know there was a lot of bitching when Guitar Hero II came out on the 360 with a corded guitar, so I could well imagine that this bit of news gained joyous reception.
Thursday evening, I was at Wal-Mart with my father and brother. I wandered over to the electronics section to pick up a third new headset for my phone (our puppy had chewed and destroyed both previous ones). After I found the one I wanted, I wasted a bit more time wandering around in electronics. (It is my favorite department, after all.) The Guitar Hero III display caught my eye, and I went over to take a look at the bundle packs they had on the shelf. I looked at the Playstation 3 bundle pack, with wireless guitar. I looked at the Wii bundle pack, with wireless guitar. I looked at the Xbox360 bundle pack, with....
What's this? A corded guitar? Surely there must be some mistake, yes?
Nope.
Sure enough, there was the Xbox360 bundle pack with the same damn corded guitar controller from the GH2 bundle pack. I looked through all the stacks they had on display, just to make sure. Alas, the wireless guitar was not to be found.
After a moment's recollection, I thought perhaps I had misread my Game Informer article. So when we got back home, I pulled out the Dead Space issue (October, Issue 174) and flipped to the GH3 review. Sure enough, there it was, on page 108: a picture of the wireless guitar, with the words "Xbox360 model shown" in bold white print underneath.
I thought to myself, "Perhaps Wal-Mart was merely sold out of the wireless bundle pack." So I went to the Wal-Mart website, to see if it said "out of stock" or something like that. But no, I did not find such information. I did more research after that, but I'll save you some time: There was no wireless guitar bundle for the Xbox360.
I could not help but laugh at the sheer foolishness of it all. I wouldn't know who to blame, Microsoft or Harmonix/Red Octane, but somebody's gotta have their head up their ass. Even the PS2 version had a wireless bundle pack. That's just sad.
I discussed the issue with my gaming counterpart, SmokeBlue, who said that he read somewhere that a wireless guitar will be available some time in December. As for me, the tiny bit of information I found suggested that there were technical difficulties with the 360 version of the wireless guitar. At any rate, there is currently no damn wireless guitar controller available yet for the Xbox360.
Personally, I enjoy the mental image of a thousand and one angry gamers storming the Microsoft headquarters, armed with pitchforks and corded guitars, strangling the higher-ups responsible for this oversight. "Damn you corporate bastards not sharing your wireless technology!! Now die by the very same cords with which you have restrained our rockage!!!" *choke strangle die* "FREEEEEEEE BIIIIIIIRRRD!!!!!!!!!!"
*ahem*
Sorry you had to see that.
Until my next pointless report, I remain,
The Coconutter
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