Harmonix Offers A Long Answer To The Question 'Where's Rock Band 4?'

**jackofalltrades** · Joined: 04 Jun 2006 Posts: 21

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2014/10/19/harmonix-offers-a-long-satisfying-answer-to-the-question-wheres-rock-band-4/

Can't wait for it.
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**DPooch** · Joined: 05 Feb 2008 Posts: 1650 Location: Pittsburgh, PA

It never even crossed my mind that it could be a possibility our instruments will be somehow compatible with the next-gen "Rock Band 4." That would be fantastic. What would be even better is if they figure this out and implement it, any new instruments might be backwards-compatible? A guitar died on me completely a few days ago, and now I only have one Les Paul left that has a loose neck that likes to drop notes due to it occasionally. It's getting harder to even find new instruments, let alone at a reasonable price.

I still kick myself for not taking advantage of an offer Gamestop had where you bought Guitar Hero: Aerosmith for 5 dollars and you got a free X-plorer. Maybe they had a one-deal limit, but I wish I would have bought ten of them otherwise. "No, I already have that game and a working guitar."

My first X-plorer was flawless, it didn't have any tilt errors like people say they did. Anyways, getting a little off-topic here. It would be amazing if new instruments were backwards-compatible, and I look forward to Rock Band 4, whenever that will be.
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**Airtrooper719** · Joined: 29 May 2013 Posts: 235 Location: Newcastle, UK

Awesome! Sounds promising, provided they include pro guitar/bass/drums/keys support of course.

**voidedalive2x** · Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2014 7:32 pm Post subject:

Even if they do make instruments backwards compatible (to which I say "HELL FUCKING YES!"), I do hope that they'll push out a line of new/old instruments to re-saturate the market a little. Hopefully by pulling from the instruments that worked on both RB AND GH.

Speaking of GH, even if that particular series will never again see the light of day, it'd be cool if HMX anticipated it's possible return within RB4's lifetime and included ways to put GH compatibility in. This probably isn't very practical since they'd have to entirely speculate on what GH7 would use, but yknow.
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**Midnight-Rider** · Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2014 11:04 pm Post subject:

All I ask for a new RB is that the tracklist is nice and varied, offering fun challenges for all instruments and that the character faces/animations are better than in RB3.
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**PinkiePie91** · Joined: 22 Jun 2012 Posts: 1139 Location: Somewherenothere

This makes me happy to read. I /really/ hope they find a way to make it backwards compatible with the instruments. Even though mine are getting a bit wore down, maybe a price drop will happen for instruments (I can hope)

**inv4der** · Joined: 16 Sep 2007 Posts: 9660 Location: Meridian, ID

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**raynebc** · Joined: 16 Jun 2008 Posts: 992

As long as they continue to support pro instruments, all of which interest me, it's all good. Using pitch detection for guitar/bass would be icing on the cake and by now I think it's safe to say the tech to do that is feasible.

**Airtrooper719** · Joined: 29 May 2013 Posts: 235 Location: Newcastle, UK

**raynebc** · Joined: 16 Jun 2008 Posts: 992

I'm not sure they could make a more accurate pro guitar controller without going out of the price range of most people who'd be interested. Software calibration can only do so much and hit detection was nowhere near perfect in Rock Band either. The Squier had its undocumented sensor tweaks, but the Mustang couldn't be messed with short of dismantling it. The Mustang and Squier were cool, but they each had plenty of shortcomings and I'd be surprised if either controllers' manufacturers would even be interested in having another go at producing something similar.

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**blingdomepiece** · Joined: 03 Aug 2007 Posts: 4358 Location: Ottawa ON Canada

I tend to agree that protar is probably dead. Would be nice to find out otherwise, but wouldn't expect it due to ecosystem issues.

Would obviously love if pro keys could survive to a nextgen game, but not sure that would happen either.

I just brought my gear over to a friends' place for Extra Life 2014 (our team raised 6K, yay us). I honestly wasn't sure if anyone would want to play and had some reservations that it might be a waste of time (it's about 2 hours of packing and setup time between the e-kit, projector, etc.). It went very well, and the only real issue was that some of the kids wanted to play stuff like Gangnam Style or Happy that probably would have been available if Harmonix was still releasing DLC. But I had Spongebob DLC so I was still a hero.

Next year I'll probably lug over a 360 with a bunch of customs as a backup, assuming there isn't a RB4 by then. People will always like this game because people will always like music. How to handle the business side with console generations and hardware vendor issues, I really don't know.
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