new guitar hero drums might be crap

So Guitar Hero: World Tour debuted this weekend and in an attempt to defend their stakes in the music video game market, GH now uses drums just like its major competitor, Rock Band. Unfortunately for folks wanting to get the new title ASAP, it looks like the earliest manufactured GH drum sets come with some serious sensitivity issues, mainly that after only a few hits they pretty much quit out on you. Frankly I think this is what people get for wanting to bang plastic circles with plastic sticks instead of actually taking up a real instrument. I saw a bunch of kids loitering around the local GameStop the other day playing Rock Band on the demo machine and damn if it didn't look like the dumbest thing ever, banging away on the plastic drum set, especially since the volume was pretty low and the clack-clack-clack of plastic on plastic was all you could hear. Not sure that would really do it for me but then I guess that's why those kids are loitering and playing in-store rather than buying... Anyway, with any luck the hardware issues with the new Guitar Hero will be resolved and people won't have to be pissed about poor equipment development on Activision's part.

GH: World Tour hardware hang-ups draw outcry