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Loading ...Are you a Wii owner that’s just itching to get your hands on Rock Band for your beloved console? I can’t blame you, as the game is fun as hell. However, it won’t be quite the same experience that is found on the 360 or PS3 due to the lack of downloadable content. When asked about this decision, Rob Kay, design director at Harmonix pointed the finger squarely at Nintendo.
Come on Nintendo, we need a hard drive. That’s what we want. The whole problem is there’s nowhere to store it. If the platform could do it, we’d jump on it”, he continued. “It’s something that we championed to Nintendo, that we’d like to do it. Who knows what will happen down the line, I don’t know what’s coming down the line, but that’s the reason there’s no DLC in Wii Rock Band
Honestly, it makes perfect sense. There’s no reason to spend all of the time building in the DLC functionality if most users won’t be able to really take advantage of it. Sure, you could buy a big SD card, but it’s hard to expect all of your customers to go out and buy something extra like that. At least he left it open-ended for the future.
[via CVG]
“Sure, you could buy a big SD card, but it’s hard to expect all of your customers to go out and buy something extra like that.” Really? What an assinine statement. Rock Band costs 170 bucks. Buying a new system in order to have a greater wealth of music when you play Rock Band costs at least 350. I think people would sooner pay the 40 bucks to buy a 4 gig SD card. 40 bucks? A new controller costs that much and I’ve seen everyone shell it out in a heartbeat. And if you really believe Harmonix when they say that isn’t enough space, look at this: a Wii disc holds 4.7 gigabytes, the disc will have 63 songs. Imagining for the second that whole disc only contained songs to play (and not opening screen interfaces or anything like that) that means each song file is 75 megabytes AT MOST. You could easily fit another 53 songs on a 4 gig memory card at least and probably a lot more if we went back and took the size of the Rock Band game itself into account, rather than just imagining the Wii disc was all song files.
The answer here is really simple: Harmonix is creating a PS2 port. They don’t want to have to design anything new for it. This is just another quick cash-in now that Wii is the most popular console worldwide.
I apologize the song files only take up 20 to 40 megabytes. Taking an average at 30 megabytes you could fit over 130 additional songs on a 4 gig card. Not enough space my ***.
I think there should be some sort of hard drive for the wii tht can be plugged in the USB port
The main problem with SD is that the transfer rate is slow. If they could get it to load fast enough, Harmonix would do it. However, it would either need to temporarily transfer the full file to the wii, or be very laggy while trying to play it. Either option isn’t good. However, it’s possible that they could allow us to put just a few songs at a time on our actual Wii, so that it doesn’t lag.
I dont care how they do it! I just hope it gets done!!!I dont wanna have to buy a new console just for rock band and DLC (no offense ps2-but in this department, u suck). I know Im just beating the dead horse here, but maybe a jump-drive type thing should be thought about!
Even if just Nintendo was to put out additional hard drives that would plug into the wii via USB, i would spend a fair buck to get one for DLC. Say they put out a 100 GB HDD for the Wii, so you could put all your saved content onto it, i would pay anywhere up tho 500 bucks for it. even if RedOctane was to put a HDD into the guitar, it would add an extra pound, and maybe only a quarter inch more width, for an extra few dollars, i would buy it. i dont care what RedOctane, Harmonix, MTV Games, or Nintedo does, just give us something to put the DLC on, and everyone would shut-up about the topic. but rumour has it that Rock Band 2 will have DLC for the Wii somehow.