Rock Band 4 not coming to Wii U because "the audience is not there"

[Multishanks]

Barkley said:

Multishanks said:
No one is going to pay hundreds of dollars for instruments (no backwards compatibility).

They are working on backwards compatibility with the previous instruments. It's not 100% confirmed yet. Apparently it's more likely for PS4 as the PS3 instruments used a USB dongle to connect where-as the 360 versions connected directly so getting compatibility with XBO might be a bit tougher but they're getting help with microsoft on that aswell.

 

I guess the controller issue is not a problem.

 

I still have a hard time believing that people will dust off their instruments on these systems to play this series. If the wii was a fad from that era, this series doesnt really stand a chance in my opinion.