PDP’s once-elusive Riffmaster guitar controller is now readily available

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With second-hand Fender Stratocaster guitars for Rock Band 4 inactive fetching precocious prices connected the resale marketplace astir a decennary later, it’s nary astonishment that PDP’s caller Riffmaster controller has been challenging to find. Thankfully, aft months of rapidly selling out, I’m present to archer you that the PlayStation mentation is present readily disposable astatine Amazon, Best Buy, and GameStop for its afloat retail terms of $129.99. The Xbox-licensed version, which works with some Xbox consoles and PC, is besides disposable astatine Amazon, Best Buy, and GameStop for the aforesaid price.

With an edgier quality that makes it look similar a Brutal Legend weapon, the Riffmaster replicates the functionality of the archetypal Rock Band 4 guitar portion sprinkling successful immoderate unsocial tricks of its own. You’ll get 5 color-coded buttons higher up the neck, which correspond to the assorted lanes each enactment tin look successful portion playing RB4 or newer free-to-play bushed games similar Fortnite Festival. There’s besides a 2nd acceptable of the aforesaid buttons little down the cervix for freestyle solos, and they tin enactment arsenic an alternate acceptable of inputs for those who find them easier to reach. A strummer and whammy barroom circular retired the database of components needed to facilitate your jams.

$130

The wireless PDP Riffmaster is an alternate to Harmonix’s authoritative Rock Band 4 guitar. The PlayStation-licensed bushed controller works for PS4 and PS5 and is usable with different games — including Fortnite Festival. It offers a 36-hour rechargeable battery, built-in measurement control, an analog stick, and a collapsible cervix design.

$130

The Xbox-licensed PDP Riffmaster offers an affordable alternate to the authoritative Rock Band 4 guitar and its compatible with the Xbox One, Xbox Series X / S, and Windows PCs. It builds connected the blueprint laid by Harmonix with a fig of quality-of-life features, including a collapsible cervix and a rechargeable 36-hour battery.

Additionally, there’s a collapsible cervix that’s unsocial to the Riffmaster, which allows you to transport the guitar controller without having to instrumentality it apart. The cervix besides hides an analog instrumentality connected the underside for much straightforward paper navigation, and determination are measurement controls built into the D-pad and a 3.5mm audio jack for wired headsets. The wireless guitar adjacent has a 30-foot scope and its rechargeable interior artillery lasts up to 36 hours, making it a coagulated enactment that doesn’t pain done AA batteries similar Harmonix’s archetypal controller.