ALTHOUGH I'm a way bigger Guitar Hero fan, you can't say Rock Band copied cymbals. I wouldn't be suprised if Harmonix stumbled upon the idea first anyway or would've added it eventually. Its obviously the next improvment in the drums but Guitar Hero went to press first. And for the so called lame touch strip, by the fourth rock band game, I think they'd find a way to add more to drums (doesn't have to be physical, although these developers are brilliant they'll probably find a way) considering Guitar Hero guitar (dur) has been around since the beggining and the guitar needed something new after four games. And for GH copying RB drums and vocals, it only really inspired them to up their game to the next level. And on the same token its not like RB were the first to have vocals and drums, so there you go (Don't -1 me because I said it!) It'll be fun to have Guitar Hero World Tour at my house and RB2 at my friends.