Quite how this will work, particularly if you're switching from an Xbox 360 to a Playstation 4 (or Playstation 3 to Xbox One, we suppose) remains to be seen, but we imagine more details will be revealed in due time. The full back catalogue will be coming in stages however, so you likely won't be able to download everything from the off. That means that people who've bought tracks in the past - on the last-generation consoles of the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3- will be able to download them onto their new platforms free of charge. "It's important for us to respect those purchases and enable our fans to bring that content over to the Rock Band platform on new generation consoles." Players responded by downloading hundreds of their favorite tracks, and building a massive library of playable music," says Rock Band 4 Product Manager Daniel Sussman.
There's other interesting tit-bits with regards to backwards compatibility too - most notably concerning Rock Band's humongous library of downloadable songs, which currently stands at a rather impressive 2000+ tunes, spread over more than 500 legendary artists: "Since the beginning, we've called Rock Band a music platform. After the game launches, you will have to pay $1.99 for it and all packs will return to the original full price.Here it goes, here it goes, here it goes again - unfortunately, this is literally the only Rock Band 4 picture we have. So, if you have yet to take advantage of the 50% off sale on DLC that's been going on for three years now, get in on it fast. This includes all legacy DLC singles if they have not already been purchased and future DLC singles. Rock Band 4 gameplay features such as Freestyle Guitar Solos and Dynamic Drum Fills have been added to legacy DLC and over 1,700 pieces have been added to the game.īecause of this, at launch, all DLC singles on Xbox One and PlayStation 4 will be $1.99.
Remember: you can only re-download DLC for free within each console family. Harmonix provides step-by-step directions on how to transfer the DLC over to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on its blog. The developer said this is due to first-party technical restrictions and being unable to support batch downloads on the respective stores. This means, even if you downloaded a batch, say for instance the three-track Metallica 01 pack, you will still have to download one track at a time. You can now start transferring your stored Rock Band DLC tracks in preparation for Rock Band 4, but you should know it will take you a while to do it.Īs stated in the headline, will have transfer the DLC one song at at time.
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