CES 2009: No Rock Band 3 this year, Harmonix focusing on Beatles game |
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After releasing the first two Rock Band (Xbox 360, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Wii) games in two consecutive years, Harmonix is apparently skipping 2009 for the next entry in the popular rhythm game series. For this year, they're bringing most of their creative forces to bear on the upcoming Beatles game.
That's not to say that Harmonix is abandoning Rock Band, though. Harmonix CEO Alex Rigopulos said that increasing the series' music library even further is the main focus for Rock Band tin 2009:
Passing the 500 mark was enormous, but as big a number as 500 songs might seem, it's just the tiniest sliver ... a big part of the challenge of the coming year is to really invest so we can blow that out into as large a fraction of the universe as possible.
Rigopulos didn't mention any actual target numbers, but with the weekly updates, new Rock Band tracks are coming in at roughly 250 tracks a year, so it looks like it'll still be a couple of years at the most until Harmonix breaks the 1,000-track milestone.
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actually i have a juicy inside scoop straight from the dev team staff of the forums that Harmonix is aiming for - 5000 songs before 2012. That's 3 years and 4500 more songs.
Yup, 1500 a year lol. They'll have to put out 6 times as more songs as they do now.
(125 songs a month, 30 songs a week)
impossible? me thinks not. they'll have loads of free time since rb3 is not in the way and the beatles game is using the same engine from rb2.
It's okay if we don't get rb3 this year, as long as we get those little annoying perks here and there fixed with several patches. (stars in quickplay list)
YOU ROCK HARMONIX!!!
Just because they're not releasing RB3 this year doesn't mean they're not working on it.
I have no doubt they can step up production but honestly, 5000 songs? PSN can't support that. That is, searching through all those songs is gonna suck ASS! Same with XBL.