14 DAY TRIAL // A new online survey from Harmonix points out that the developer might be interested in a new entry in its popular music series, Rock Band.
The series has been pretty quiet lately, with the last piece of weekly DLC arriving in April 2013, but now it seems that Harmonix is considering resurrecting the once massively popular franchise.
The company released a short online survey, listing five questions aimed at topics like finding out how often users play Rock Band titles, how many functional instruments they still own, and which prospects seem more attractive for future Rock Band titles.
The options in the final question pertained to a new Rock Band title on next-gen systems, like the Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Wii U, but also included the possibility of a new title showing up on legacy systems like the PS3, Xbox 360 and Wii.
Other tidbits regarded the possibility to introduce new instruments for the legacy editions of the game, as well as a sale on the DLC content that the game currently has.
During the heyday of Rock Band, the entire genre was very popular, with both hardcore and casual audiences attempting to put their shyness aside and play out some of the best pop and rock tunes ever made.
It all went into a rapid decline, however, after losing its novelty, and the market becoming oversaturated certainly did not help things. Now, however, the company behind the whole crazy idea of Rock Band seems to be interested in finding the right moment to rekindle the old spark.
The team mentions that they now understand what happened to the music genre, having surged and then crashed and burned, and that they are eager to deliver the same experience once again, this time around armed with the experience of past mistakes.
The prospect, although intriguing, is a difficult one to translate into reality, as any such endeavor requires that users purchase dedicated peripherals that might be of little use outside Rock Band.
The idea is even more difficult to implement this time around, since the excitement brought by the Kinect and Wii has now faded, and Microsoft even went so far as to separate the motion sensor from the base console in order to make it more appealing to gamers.
Harmonix mentioned that they were considering delivering a revamped edition of Rock Band on newer platforms several times in recent past, but so far nothing conclusive has materialized. In any case, we'll keep our eyes open and come back with more information as soon as it's available.