Getting that distance will certainly have been a help though, so that they could look back at all of the feedback and complaints that the older hardware received in order to try and build something better than before. “To that end, the group consensus was to give them exactly what they got before in terms of the shape and design, but to do everything that we can to make sure that they’re the best version that they’ve ever been.” “There was a big discussion about exactly what we wanted to do, and in the end the group consensus was there’s a lot of muscle memory inherent in what people are used to with the old instruments, and the thought was that people like what they’ve got already, but that we can improve upon it in ways that we’ve discussed previously.” “There were plenty of ideas that we had and Harmonix had ideas of their own,” Richard Neville, Mad Catz Senior Product Development Manager said of the early design meetings. That’s certainly out of choice, to look at where Mad Catz could improve on the now five year old designs, but also out of necessity, with the old unused injection moulding tools succumbing to age and, ironically, being sold for scrap just months before Mad Catz and Harmonix rekindled their partnership. Though these instruments might look familiar from the outside, taking the same styling of the Fender Stratocaster and the same look to the drum kit, they’ve actually been re-designed from the ground up.
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