Activision financials: Guitar Hero IV to "provide significant leap forward in innovation"

Speaking in an investor call after the announcement of record financials last night, Activision publishing CEO Mike Griffith remained coy on the issue of adding new instruments to the Guitar Hero franchise, saying only that Guitar Hero IV would provide a "significant leap forward in innovation" when it releases later this year.

"For the holiday, we'll provide a significant leap forward in innovation for Guitar Hero worldwide on all platforms including the PS3, PS2, Xbox 360, Wii, and again on the DS," he said.

"We'll provide more information detailing this specific innovation in a couple weeks."

Griffith added: "We've put a lot of additional development resources, a lot of additional music licenses resources, a lot of additional hardware supplier resources against the title to fuel growth over next year. We're excited by the increased musical content and innovation we're bringing. We do expect a leap forward in innovation with our holiday launch, and we're about two weeks away from providing very specific details on that."

Other instruments are involved. Bobby Kotick's already said so.

Thanks, Gamespot.