Gamasutra published an interview today with Masaya Matsuura,
PaRappa the Rapper's creator. Conducted late last year, the
interview is far ranging, but one interesting tidbit arose when
the topic of music game peripherals came up. Matsuura told
Gamasutra that he's more interested in conveying the act of
playing music through his software, rather than via an
extraneous peripheral. He said to Gamasutra: As I told you, I
really want to feel as if I'm playing the actual guitar... Of
course the game controller and the real guitar, there's a very
big difference between them, but if I can overcome these kinds
of differences by making good software.. Maybe that is what's
interesting to me. I really want to make the experience appeal
derive from playing the software. It's a very potent thing.
Matsuura also had some interesting stuff to say about the
material costs involved in producing music game peripherals --
specifically, where they'll end up if our interest in plastic
instruments were to wane.  No petroleum product