It’s not your guitar, it’s your game. Our good friends over at Xboxic got a chance to talk with Activision about the X-ploder guitar issues with the Xbox 360 version of Guitar Hero II.

Turns out, it’s some anti-cheating code that was added to the game late in development that’s causing all the problems. Activision is working on a patch, so don’t go taking your guitars apart just yet.

From Xboxic, here’s Red Octane’s official response:

“On learning of potential issues with the whammy bar on the Xbox360 guitar, we immediately began extensive testing of both the guitar and the software to isolate any issues with whammy bar functionality and the corresponding causes. Our testing identified a specific software element that may, in certain situations, cause the whammy bar to lose responsiveness. Given that this is a software-driven, an patch is being developed to fix the issue and will arrive as soon as possible via download on Xbox Live. We will confirm soon a target date for this download.”

Looks like another case of pushing a game out without properly testing.