Guitar Hero 5 & Band Hero Will Let You Import Songs

[Ondo]

Originally Posted by Doogie2K

Still, isn't that basically just an improvement of GHTunes to allow content owners to add and sell their stuff? That's more iterative than innovative, IMO.

An improvement of GHTunes? I suppose so, but it's a huge improvement, and I think a significant amount of innovation was required to make that leap. I don't think its iterative when it works in a fundamentally different manner than GHTunes - authoring with the actual masters on a PC using the same tools as Harmonix is not just an iteration over an in-game MIDI studio. (Also, Harmonix started work on it before GHTunes was released, so there's that.)

Additionally, a system for selling user-generated content is something I haven't seen in any other game - I wouldn't be too surprised if some PC game has done it, but it's unique on consoles. I'm hoping the idea spreads.

Originally Posted by Doogie2K

Drop-in, drop-out and any instrument combo you please are musts for the next Rock Band. They can even do it as a title update, if they're dead-set on RB2 being the platform software.

There's a Rock Band 2.2 patch coming this month to add support for the Rock Band Network beta. It'll be interesting to see the extent of feature additions in it - while I don't expect those ones, it could give some indication as to whether we might see them in a later patch.