Rock Band 4 Announced for Xbox One and PS4

Harmonix reveals its plans to revive the music franchise in 2015.

Rock Band 4 will launch for Xbox One and PlayStation 4 by the end of the year, developer Harmonix announced.

New guitar, drums, and microphone peripherals are coming by way of a partnership with Mad Catz. However, in an effort to keep the community united, Rock Band 4 will not support keyboards or pro-controllers.

The old Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 peripherals, are being worked on to be supported for Rock Band 4.

Harmonix product manager Daniel Sussman also revealed that they plan on transferring all existing Rock Band DLC's to the Xbox One and PS4.

"We have been working with Sony and Microsoft to support legacy entitlements, so that DLC you bought on the PS3 will carry forward to the PS4, and same with the Xbox 360 to the Xbox One," he said.

Finally, Sussman said Rock Band 4 will be the only new Rock Band game released for the Xbox One and PS4.

"We don't envision a Rock Band 5, 6, 7 or 8. What we would rather do is build on the Rock Band 4 feature set through very deliberate content and title updates that are developed in collaboration and conversation with our community," he said.