Rhythm games reached peak popularity in the mid-late 2000s, and it appears controller peripheral maker PDP has teased an upcoming Guitar Hero-shaped controller, and it could be for the upcoming Fortnite Festival.
It has only been over half a week since Fortnite revealed the Fortnite Festival, a game mode that resembles the hit Harmonix-developed rhythm-based titles, Guitar Hero and its sequels from the mid-to-late 2000s and PDP has already struck while the iron is hot. Today, PDP unveiled a tease for a potential upcoming Guitar Hero-shaped controller on their official X (formerly Twitter) account in what feels like a response to the Festival announcement. The reveal can be seen below.
It has not been officially confirmed that the guitar controller tease will be used with the upcoming Fortnite Festival. It’s interesting the official reveal for the Fortnite Festival mentions, “use your preferred control method to shred on Guitar, slap with the Bass, kill it on Keytar, bang on the Drums, or take vocals on the Mic” so there are other instruments that may be playable. Still, it appears PDP has only teased one as of today. Also, the emojis at the end of the reveal post seem to allude to the Fortnite Festival.
Fortnite has proven the prowess of their musical acts previously, with concerts from deadMAU5 and Eminem having reached millions of fans globally, so the team-up with Harmonix just feels like the next step forward. A new Guitar Hero controller in the works could make playing with those kinds of controllers more affordable and could make sense for the upcoming Festival mode.
While PDP has still only revealed a tease on the upcoming peripheral, with the Microsoft purchase of Activision Blizzard coming to a close it’s possible a new game from Harmonix themselves could happen, but fans can only wait until a future announcement considering 2015’s Guitar Hero Live failed to take off.
