Guitar Hero director Brian Bright was talking to Eurogamer and this is what he said.

"I don't know how far ahead they planned that - we obviously revealed [our drum kit] much earlier than they did," said Bright, referencing Harmonix' plan to release separate clip-on cymbals for Rock Band set-ups.

"I've a feeling there was a: 'Oh s***! There's cymbals! How can we put cymbals on our kit?' That would be the easiest way without having to rewire everything and re-engineer the entire circuit board."

He also stated that "My understanding on that drum kit is the cymbals are dual-mapped, so it's just another way to trigger the exact same thing you can trigger on the kit."


He is saying he came up with it first but Rock Band released the drums first.


John Drake, Harmonix responded to Bright by saying.

“It might just look like more songs, but really the technology that we’re pushing forward, and some of the features we’ve added, it’s not just a title update: it really is a new game with a lot of really great stuff. We actually have expansion ports on the back of our drum kits that let you attach three cymbals to your drum set. At Harmonix we really are musicians first and game people second… My drum set has three cymbals on it - I don’t know how many drum sets you’ve seen with two cymbals on them; I guess that’s a question for other people.”

So what should we get GH or RB?

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