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Troll_Monster on 29 January 2008

perhaps their is a technical issue that some how prohibits rock band from working on the wii.



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DMeisterJ on 29 January 2008

I think that we've been over this before, but what would you guys do for DLC? We all know that your online service is... well... not that good. And there is no hard drive to store things, and you can't boot things from the SD card. Would you be happy only playing fifty to seventy songs?



DMeisterJ on 29 January 2008

Also, compared to the "next-gen" versions of this game, this would be a joke. No DLC and crappy online? No thanks, I'll pass.



famousringo on 29 January 2008
ameratsu said:
kitler53 said:
ameratsu said:
It seems like they'd eventually bring it to the Wii but i think there are a few considerations here

- People who own multiple consoles (x360 + wii for example) would simply buy it for x360 for the potential for DLC, digital audio output, earlier release etc. That's not to say there wouldn't be some deranged fanboys who'd "prefer" the wii version.
- When a console costs $250, a $200 game with peripherals is a hard sell to most people out there. That is not to say it will bomb, but if it is launched at any other time that christmas season I can't see it selling that well.
- I have a lingering feeling that online play, if included, would be nothing short of a joke. I also think it will be rated similarily to the ps2 version (low to mid 80s) as opposed to the PS3/X360 versions (mid 90s)

every single one of those points was brought up to predict why the wii version of GH3 was going to fail. we all know how that turned out.

http://vgchartz.com/worldtotals.php?name=&console=Wii&publisher=&sort=Total


why would anyone predict the wii version would "fail"? my only issue with some people's predictions were that they for whatever reason thought that the wii version would outsell the ps2 version which was completely baseless as we found out.


Hard to know how GH3 might have sold, since there are plenty of people who already had a guitar for PS2 and just grabbed the software update, while supplies of the unique Wii guitar have been constrained since release.

The only people I know with GH3 for Wii had to import a copy through Ebay.



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DMeisterJ on 29 January 2008

^ Also, GH is only eighty bucks while rb is clsoe to double that.



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Entroper on 29 January 2008
DMeisterJ said:
Also, compared to the "next-gen" versions of this game, this would be a joke. No DLC and crappy online? No thanks, I'll pass.

Why do you assume that a Wii version of Rock Band would have "crappy" online?  What would be crappy about it?  Also, you can use the SD card from within a game, you can see Nintendo doing exactly that in Super Smash Bros. Brawl.



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mrstickball on 29 January 2008

As I've said before.......Rock Band is very much next-gen, and has a few issues before it to run on the Wii.

Rock Band, with all of its goodness is a memory hog - Wii owners, the majority would get a rather gimped version of the game like the PS2 version - which has no avatar functionality, no online MP, no DLC.

And that's the key of Rock Band - DLC. With a very limited built-in flash card (512mb) the DLC would be severely limited, or non existant for Wii owners. They could always upgrade their systems with bigger drives which would be important - but would alienate core users.

So its kind of a "darned if you do darned if you don't" situation with Harmonix and Rock Band - either give no DLC, or give huge-sized DLC (songs are 30mb-60mb each) and render Wii flash drives useless.

Hopefully EA can indeed sort this out, as Rock Band would be very profitable.



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DMeisterJ on 29 January 2008

@ Entropner

I was still referring to DLC and being able to download games and whatnot, but the Wii only having 512mb of memory, you'd eat up a couple of SD cards or they'd need to release a Hard Drive.



Entroper on 29 January 2008
mrstickball said:
As I've said before.......Rock Band is very much next-gen, and has a few issues before it to run on the Wii.

Rock Band, with all of its goodness is a memory hog - Wii owners, the majority would get a rather gimped version of the game like the PS2 version - which has no avatar functionality, no online MP, no DLC.

And that's the key of Rock Band - DLC. With a very limited built-in flash card (512mb) the DLC would be severely limited, or non existant for Wii owners. They could always upgrade their systems with bigger drives which would be important - but would alienate core users.

So its kind of a "darned if you do darned if you don't" situation with Harmonix and Rock Band - either give no DLC, or give huge-sized DLC (songs are 30mb-60mb each) and render Wii flash drives useless.

Hopefully EA can indeed sort this out, as Rock Band would be very profitable.

Why would it have no online MP?  You do realize GH3 for the Wii does have online MP, right?  And there's no need to limit downloadable content when you can use a 2 GB SD card.

The PS2 has no standard internet connectivity, no internal storage, and extremely small memory cards.  The Wii has none of these issues that would prevent Rock Band from being online.  I don't know why people continue to insist that the Wii can't do these things when it has already done them. 



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llewdebkram on 29 January 2008

Just because it's rock music being played doesn't take away the fact that in GH and Rock Band you are all playing with instruments that look like Fisher Price toys!

Play, laugh, Grow

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