PC gamers hoping to rock out with a bunch of plastic instruments in Rock Band 4, perhaps on a living room-based Steam Machine, should know that the game remains a console exclusive partly because of music industry concerns over the security of the game's music.
In a recent interview with Eurogamer, Harmonix Product Manager Daniel Sussman cited those "security issues" in discussing why a PC version of the new rhythm game wasn't currently in the works. "There's something comforting about the closed network that comes along with the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One," Sussman said. "That's important to our partners in the music industry."
In a follow-up statement, Harmonix further clarified that it was music rights holders, and not Harmonix itself, that were concerned about the piracy implications of a PC release. That's not that surprising considering the music industry's long-running issues with computer-based piracy and the high-quality, multi-track recordings that are distributed with Rock Band games.
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