Activision would love to sell you a new guitar with Guitar Hero 5
by JC Fletcher 
on Jul 14th 2009 9:45AM
Surprise! There's a new, slightly different guitar controller bundled with
Guitar Hero 5. The sparkly red controller includes a redesigned touchpad, which now uses digital input instead of analog. The touchpad area also has small dots to indicate the fret color, and "slight reliefs" on the neck. Neversoft's Brian Bright told
IGN that "all of these changes to the slider allow you to hit the tapping sections with better precision – we also removed the purple rope in the tapping/slide sections of game play by the way :)."
Activision has yet to determine whether this guitar will be available by itself or if it will be restricted to
GH5 bundles. What is much more certain is that there will be a new
Guitar Hero controller every single year, just
in case Activision can convince some current guitar owners to upgrade.
