The intarwebs slightly erupted with the news that the Rock Band franchise would have 5000 playable songs by the end of 2009. Turns out someone slightly misinterpreted a quote from Alex Rigopulos, the head honcho over at Harmonix.
In an interview with Ars Technica during this year’s CES, Rigopolos said that the library would go from 500 to 5000 songs “in the coming years”. Billboard took it and ran with it, saying we’d have 5000 songs to play this year.
If you do the math, we’d have to get roughly 100 songs per week to catch that mark for 2009. That’s a bit absurd and I’m surprised the people at Billboard didn’t figure that one out. So before you get all excited about insane amounts of DLC, just remember that the big 5000 number won’t be happened for a while.
Their current release cycle is just fine with me. Every few weeks I find a gem, saves me some money.
Typical people miss hearing things, but 5000 songs would be a pretty good achievment in that short space of time.