The last thing that anyone ever expected was Guitar Hero is indeed going Mobile or coming to a Nintendo DS near you. IGN has confirmed that the DS version of Activision’s Guitar Hero is coming out later this year. It is being developed by Vicarious Visions, the same studio who made certain versions of Activisions Tony Hawk and Spider-Man games.
The DS version of Guitar Hero will have its own peripheral which plugs into the cartridge slot of the DS and also include a specifically designed stylus. The game will also make use of the in-built microphone.
“We began prototyping ideas for Guitar Hero on DS in early 2007,” Vicarious Visions CEO Karthik Bala stated.
“We quite frankly didn’t know whether it would be possible to bring the core essence of the franchise to handheld and have it actually work.”
“At some point, we hit upon the idea of creating a peripheral that would have the fret buttons plugging into the GBA slot of the DS. We figured that attaching a full-size guitar or even a mini-guitar would be too awkward to play on the road, hence the design of the more compact Guitar Grip, which gives you the tactile sense of the fret buttons, with the touch screen depicting the strings of the guitar.”