RB Tremonti with a mix of creed n alter bridges best songs n all with pro charts. HMX are absolute fools for not having these bands in the game. Both very popular n would sell extremely well
Arcades are practically dead. Hundreds or thousands of songs pre-installed from DLC would be the only way to make it interesting at all. Still, I can't imagine they'd do that now. Didn't they try and fail at this with Guitar Hero?
I'm guessing this will be a new Rock Band game of some kind. Maybe not the 4 we all crave, but not a specific band or unrelated title either. Maybe they'll bring in electronica elements like DJ Hero in addition to all of the instruments? Maybe just a mixer/production "game"? Who knows... I don't think they would tease us with a new IP though. If it was something TOTALLY new, wouldn't they just say that? Telling us there's a new IP coming but not revealing anything about it would get us excited without getting our hopes up for RB4, but being coy on what it is and saying the RB community will be excited is only going to make us feel that Rock Band will be getting some love after a year off. And they already have produced iOS and Android ports of Rock Band, so it's probably not "just a cellphone game".
Smart programming can sidestep this issue. Harmonix probably never bothered to do anything about it since they didn't realize they would have "so many" hitting the cap before a new title was released. But yeah, any programmer worth a damn should be able to get around this. Think of modern sandbox games with enormous worlds. There isn't enough RAM available to load the entire map, but they get around this by loading elements of the map in the background only as they're needed to be called. Rock Band's setlist is a far simpler problem, I would say.
Keysounded rhythm gaming is pretty damn simple though, relatively speaking. They don't NEED better hardware for the core gameplay. All better hardware would uniquely allow, I think would be far superior background animations (and maybe 5 or more actors on stage at once).
Pretty sure when he said rb arcade he meant through the live and psn marketplaces.
If not, I agree with your assessment.
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I could see them using PAX to show off a new iOS title rather than RB4. They've said they have other projects in the works and I could see Amplitude/Frequency working on an iPhone... or PSN/XBL/3DSWare...
That said, I figure RB4 is coming this year, so some sort of confirmation could come this spring.
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