Harmonix possibly working on 3DS game, discusses future of music games, and new IP

A portion of a Dtoid interview with Alex Rigopulos, CEO of Harmonix Music Systems…

D: You are working on a 3DS project, right? Is that correct?

AR: [Laughs] I can neither confirm nor deny!

D: That kind of leads into my next question. I mean, you guys have been making music games for 10 years. The original vision was sort of always to get non-musicians the chance to experience, play, and connect with music in new ways. I feel like you’ve accomplished that. Obviously, you feel there’s more work to do in that space. But what? I mean, where do we go from here?

AR: We do feel that there’s more to do in that space, and that doing more involves reconception of what music games mean, and what other ways there are to connect people with music — and to connect with other people through music — that haven’t really been explored yet. So it’s an important frontier of creative [research and development] for us.

D: What can you say definitively about what we can expect from Harmonix over the next 12 months?

AR: I think, yeah, definitively, there’s not too much I can say.

What I can say is that we absolutely remain committed to the Rock Band franchise, and in the short term that definitely means remaining committed to Rock Band Pro and to bringing really compelling new content to the platform. Without being able to be specific, I’ll say that we of course remain very much committed to the Dance Central franchise. And there’s a hell of a lot of new creative work being done on new IPs that we’re pretty fired up about.