To at the present time, I really like getting along with my buddies and having a jam session in Rock Band 4. So when Epic Video games introduced Fortnite Pageant, I used to be hyped. However upon discovering on the market wasn’t help for our plastic guitars and drums, not a lot.

Fortunately, Epic Video games is aware of that there are many would-be rockers on the market simply ready to jam out in a brand new approach. And the writer confirmed that for the handfuls of us, implementing peripheral help is a “precedence.”

Inside a Q&A method posting on the Fortnite web site, the event workforce addressed a number of matters. When requested “Does Fortnite Pageant help instrument controllers?” the event confirmed that compatibility isn’t out there at launch. Nonetheless, the workforce said “it’s a precedence for the workforce and at the moment below improvement. We’ll have extra to share in 2024.”

Epic Video games bought Harmonix (the builders of the Rock Band collection and several other of the unique Guitar Hero video games) in November 2021. Fortnite Pageant seems to be the lovechild of that marriage.

Harmonix was nonetheless an unbiased studio after they launched Rock Band 4 in 2015. On the time, they partnered with Mad Catz to fabricate a contemporary set of devices for the collection’ fourth installment. However manufacturing on these devices ceased years in the past, and now they’re very arduous to seek out within the wild or extraordinarily costly to buy used on-line.

Now that Harmonix is backed by a monetary juggernaut like Epic Video games, the massive query is whether or not the writer will manufacture a brand new set of peripherals to promote to followers. In any other case, anybody who desires to buy a second-hand guitar, drum set, or keyboard is more likely to need to spend a reasonably penny.