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Controller manufacturer PDP has unveiled the first guitar controller hardware that’ll be compatible with Fortnite Festival since the release of the new game mode.
As unveiled on IGN, the guitar controller will be called The Riffmaster, and will come in both Xbox (Xbox Series X|S and Xbox One) and PlayStation (PS5 and PS4) flavours. It’ll be compatible with Rock Band 4 right away out of the box, and the makers have promised that it’ll also work with Fortnite Festival – once developer Harmonix releases its update for the game to support said controllers. The controller itself is wireless, and also includes strum and whammy bars as well as including an analogue stick hidden on the back of the neck.
It’ll also include a 3.5mm jack, and also include a removable and replaceable faceplate and pickguard – so presumably you’ll be able to customise it with different facias. At the time of writing, there’s no price or specific date for the hardware – but PDP have said it’ll launch the controller in the Spring of 2024.
Fortnite Festival originally arrived back in December, and allows players to play along to official licensed tracks on a controller. It comes from the makers of Rock Band – Harmonix – after they were bought by Epic Games in 2021. New tracks have arrived on a regular basis – with a number being available on a free rotation, but players can keep songs if they buy them and also use them as Jam tracks in Fortnite Battle Royale and Fortnite Festival’s own jam mode which lets players play parts of songs together to make new mixes.
Fans have long clamoured for instrument controller support for the game, which the team have previously promised will be coming soon allowing players to use their existing controllers – but is yet to give a date when that’ll arrive. The PDP Riffmaster will be the first plastic instrument to launch following the arrival of Fortnite Festival – and though it does boast that it supports Fortnite Festival on the box, PDP have stressed that it’ll still have to wait for Epic and Harmonix to drop the update to the game first, so whether it’ll arrive before the controller is on sale – we’ll have to wait and see.
In the meantime, check out our guide to Fortnite’s best guns in Chapter 5 and our weapons tier list and elsewhere – Fortnite is coming back to iOS, but there is a twist.
