The head of Harmonix, the studio behind Fortnite Festival, has confirmed that it plans to add “many hundreds” of free new songs to the mode every year.
As great as it was to finally see Peter Griffin get added to Fortnite and witness the beginning of Chapter 5, the last few weeks of Fortnite have been exciting for several other reasons. One of those is the brand new game modes that have been added, including a Minecraft-esque Lego mode, a Rocket League-inspired racing mode, and, most interesting of all, a music game that riffs on Rock Band.
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As of the time of writing, Fortnite Festival has a pretty good selection of songs that, just like items in the Item Store, rotate every day. This lets players try every song out if they’re patient enough, before letting them buy it permanently if they want to use it in the mode whenever they like. The current selection has some bangers from artists like Weezer, Kendrick Lamar, and more, but with the team at Epic currently on a Christmas break, the selection hasn’t grown much over the past few weeks.
It looks like things are going to get a lot bigger in the new year, however. Game Informer recently had the chance to chat with Harmonix’s head, Alex Rigopolous, about Fortnite Festival and its future, where it was revealed just how many new songs are planned to be added to the mode in 2024.
“We’re now starting to clear songs in very high velocity. As you saw in our history with Rock Band and Guitar Hero, et cetera, we do plan to be rolling out hopefully many hundreds of songs a year, growing to a library of thousands over time.”
Rigopolous compared the future of Fortnite Festival’s content to how Guitar Hero and Rock Band were handled, noting that the team wants to add “many hundreds” of songs a year. It seems that the bar is set quite high, as Rigopolous said the end goal is to eventually have a library of “thousands” of tracks.
That seems like a massive number to reach, but considering how many big songs and artists the mode has already nabbed (along with Fortnite’s history with the music genre), it certainly seems doable. Better yet, Rigopolous confirmed that all of the songs that are added will remain free-to-play, as long as they’re in the current rotation.
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