It seems that Activision has set the price of $189 for the Guitar Hero World Tour, with all the instruments included. This is $10 more than Rock Band’s PS2 version.

Guitar Hero World Tour will be released sometime after the summer and will feature wireless instruments (drums, bass guitar, and microphone) and a music studio where users can create original songs (no vocals included unfortunately). It will also come with an online mode called Battle of the Bands, where the members of two bands can engage in a musical competition to see who has a better grasp on instrument handling.

So far, the tracks that have been confirmed already include Van Halen, Linkin Park, The Eagles and Sublime. A feature that can currently be found on Guitar Hero III will be kept: the ability to buy several additional titles from the company’s online store.

Guitar Hero World Tour will be launched on Xbox 360, PS3, Wii, and PS2.

At the end of March, Harmonix officially announced that its Rock Band would be coming to Nintendo’s Wii in the United States and Canada on June 22. It will cost $169 and it will be released as a Special Edition bundle, which will include the software, a wireless guitar, drums and a microphone, while stand alone instruments are set to launch on the same day. The game will come also with 63 songs and five bonus tracks.

Although engaged in a close competition with “Rock Band”, “Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock”, the latest Activision product which was launched in October 2007, has become the best-selling single-year video game title of all time, regarding both units and total revenue.