When will Rock Band 3 be Exportable?

[dominicrosales23]

It's been a few weeks since Rock Band Blitz has been out, and usually the games before hand have an expected date that they will be exportable. I'd imagine it will cost $9.99 (800 MSP) like other RB games, but I haven't heard any announcements thus far. Any ideas?

[Magnet]

The last word has been that they have no plans to export Rock Band 3 for Blitz.

[TheStuddz]

Which is unfortunate, because I'd love to play the RB3 songs in Blitz.

[Epsilon82]

Which is unfortunate, because I'd love to play the RB3 songs in Blitz.

I'm sure we all would...but there's just no way it would make financial sense for Harmonix without having to charge an outrageous markup that not nearly enough people would be willing to pay. The music executives would likely expect the same consideration they got for previous export deals, and the fact that Blitz is a smaller-scale title and RB3 didn't sell nearly as many copies as previous exportable games won't budge them in the slightest.

The only chance I can see it happening is if somehow RB4 is released in this console generation, but even that unlikely scenario probably wouldn't be a slam dunk for the profitability of a RB3 export deal.

[Munnchy]

It might, if blitz sells really, really well

[dominicrosales23]

It just seems weird that RB3 has some of the best songs and it isn't exportable, if not yet.

[Doc_SoCal]

Blitz is not "The Next" Rock Band, it is a side road, a pit stop of fun as it were, so I would not jump to any conclusions about potential exportability until if, and hopefully when, a new full band title gets released/announced.

Its not like Blitz is hurting for a larger song library. :P

[Munnchy]

Its not like Blitz is hurting for a larger song library. :P

I know it's not, but it would be awesome to play some of those songs in blitz. My god, I would pay to have the killing moon in blitz :3

[Witticus]

Blitz is not "The Next" Rock Band, it is a side road, a pit stop of fun as it were, so I would not jump to any conclusions about potential exportability until if, and hopefully when, a new full band title gets released/announced.

Its not like Blitz is hurting for a larger song library. :P

What if Blitz is the Coup de grâce?

[Epsilon82]

What if Blitz is the Coup de grâce?

I hope I'm wrong, but I think it just might be. After RB3 sold so much worse than previous games despite being amazingly fully featured (a few nagging issues aside), it's hard to imagine the mass market coming back to conventional instruments anytime soon. And pretty soon there will be new hardware, which poses a unique challenge for the Rock Band series, because neither Sony nor Microsoft seem to have any desire to include backward compatibility, so the logistics of somehow getting PS3/360 files for DLC onto a new system for a new game could prove daunting or way too expensive to be feasible.

The alternative is to get something out before the new hardware launches, but somehow I think we'd have heard something by now (it's almost been 2 years since RB3 launched.)