Harmonix Drops Struggling Mad Catz for Rock Band 4 Hardware - Report

I bought this game once with the Mad Catz guitar. Took 11 days to get sent back for a full refund due to the guitar completely dying out of nowhere. Now that PDP may be producing the peripherals... maybe I'll give this game a second chance.

The day MadCatz dies is a day that I'll have a good laugh. They've been making garbage quality products for far too long and they need to just disappear.

Way too late for new guitars and drums. RB4 already missed the boat by trillions of light years as fart as I'm concerned.

Jerks, now Mad Catz is no more, they did not give them a chance.

Mad Catz has always made trash, ever since the PS1 days. Their horrid memory cards would just delete your saves at a whim. I have no idea how they became so popular and why people bought their overpriced fightstick controllers. Why any company would partner up with them is beyond all logic.

I still have the two guitars I bought for Guitar Hero, still play RB3 occasionally. With the old instruments still usable for RB4 (when I get my new console), why would I spend that kind of money for a new instrument? Besides, I'm older and don't play past Medium difficulty any way so I guess they last longer!

Ppl still play RB? Not sarcastic, just seriously thought it died.

I am surprised that Mad Catz is still in business, since their products have always been poor quality. Some people do not learn, I guess.

Glad I waited till this was only 90 bucks in Australia.

Basicallly people bought Rockband 3 with a rockband 4 sticker and crappy rockband 3 peripherals. Over time, this game will become rockband 4 and have a new generation of peripherals....thanks for alpha and beta testing at full price guys. Gonna be awesome to buy this in a bargain bin in a year or so and have a complete product.

I've been using a Peavey AG Riffmaster for like... 6 years now. Still works very well. Pricey, but definitely worth it. I only had to swap the batteries out on it a few weeks ago for the very first time since getting it (4 AAs lasted 5 1/2 years). I don't play for an exorbitant amount of time in one sitting but over the years I'm sure its amounted to a lot of time collectively.

A company that makes peripherals should strive to have a reputation like that. Mad Catz has almost the complete opposite in terms of reputation. It's nothing they did recently... it's just all the years of neglect to quality piling up on them. For a moment with their Street Fighter 4 sticks, it seemed like they actually started giving a shit about their products, but too little too late. I said before that I would sooner completely rebrand and "start anew" than try to salvage the name. There's far too much negativity associated with it to ever recover. As a brand, it's worth very little.

As far as music game peripherals, I miss seeing Red Octane. I knew them back when they were filling a very big hole on the need to have DDR in the living room as a small company. They made good stuff. I'm fairly sure my GH1 guitar which has survived 1, 2, 3 and some PC play would still work and work well if I plugged it in today. Once again, another company bought out by a giant then used up and thrown away like a cheap condom after they've blown their load in it. They're no longer around today and there's no reason what so ever why they couldn't be other than having been bought out. They could've been putting Mad Catz to utter shame with peripherals if they were still around today as more of a generalist peripheral manufacturer.

ONLINE MULTIPLAYER AND RBN SUPPORT PLEASE!!!!

Not a fan of Rock Band/GH type games mainly cus I suck at em but this sounds good......Mad Catz is terrible, any replacement would be beneficial.....