One of the most anticipated video games on the first day of PAX East's sold-out, three-day gig at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center was one that wasn't there.
Cambridge-based Harmonix announced that it would be releasing Rock Band 4 for Xbox One and PlayStation 4 some time this year on the eve of one of the largest gaming events in North America. One of the largest crowds yesterday was around the Harmonix booth, queueing up to buy Rock Band 4 T-shirts, pins, posters and guitars, and clamoring for details they never received.
"The game exists, and any older songs (from previous versions of the game) will work with it," was all Aaron Trites, the company's manager of community development, would say about it.
None of this mattered to Jonathan Willis, 24, of Raleigh, N.C.
"They could bring back Rock Band 3 with a new set list, and I would still buy it," he said.
Willis has been playing piano since he was 8 and drums since he was 13 or 14, but unlike many of his contemporaries, he didn't care for Guitar Hero, the Rock Band series' highly successful predecessor.
"It felt too much like a video game and was too repetitive," he said.
When Rock Band followed in 2007, though, Willis was hooked. Colored notes would scroll down the console's screen, and he'd play them by pressing the corresponding colored keys on a scaled-down version of an electric guitar, while his friend did the same on the game's set of drums. It was the closest they had ever come to being rock stars, Willis said, and it was addictive.
Since then, the Rock Band games have sold more than 15 million copies, Trites said, and Harmonix has branched out into other music-themed games.
Two the company did have on hand yesterday for people to try were Amplitude, a game it raised $900,000 to develop on the crowdfunding site Kickstarter, and Harmonix Music VR, which is less a game than a kaleidoscopic, virtual reality acid trip set to the song of your choice.
"Harmonix for a while was one of the most important things about the game industry in Massachusetts," said Monty Sharma, managing director of the Massachusetts Digital Games Institute, or MassDiGI. "Now, with Rock Band 4 and Amplitude, they have a good shot at being the largest studio in New England."
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