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naruball said:
kitler53 said:
naruball said:
Guess it's one of those countless times that silly developers don't know any better, but forum people do. Guess we'll never know who's right. If they do release it for the wiiu and it flops, there will some kind of conspiracy involved.

because it's not their money.  when it's your money, your investment, your time and effort, your ability to eat and pay the morgage on the line,.. the risk assetsment evaluation becomes a much more meaningful decision than, "but i want it".

Yup. But no matter what they do, people will bash them for it. It's just so easy to type something than to take a huge financial risk. 

I agree....the stupidity in this thread baffles me. People are defending the game not coming to there system of choice with crazy conspiracies but how many would have bought it if it were to release on that said console? 



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Rock Band and other games like Guitar Hero were just fads anyway. This whole thing is going to be flop imo. Once a fad dies, it dies.



snowdog said:
Well it was pretty pointless buying any Rock Band/Guitar Hero on any platform apart from the Wii last gen for my money. And if players are STILL going to be wired to their consoles the same can be said of the PS4 and Xbox One. The Wii SKUs of both of those franchises were much better because you weren't tethered to your console. We're in the 21st Century for gawd's sake, there's no excuse for not having a wireless guitar ffs.


I dont recall 360 version having wires but i could be wrong. THe only one i got was DJ Hero(love it) and that was wireless



mZuzek said:



About it not coming to the Wii U, I have mixed feelings on that. While it's obvious that party games are a thing on the console and it would certainly sell better than a good chunk of the crappy third-party ports, I always saw the Xbox 360 as the "right" platform for Rock Band (probably just because it's where I played it on). I don't think it would sell too much on the Wii U despite having seen quite a lot of begging for it, and given the limited resources Harmonix is probably working with it's understandable.



it isnt obvious at all becasue the little bit of party games that have been released on Wii U havent been doing too hot. Very non Ninty games on the system have been doing well and thats kind of the point. 

I'll take it one step further and say this whole genre and style is kinda dead and im not quite sure why they are trying to bring it back. It wont do great anyhwere.



snowdog said:
Well it was pretty pointless buying any Rock Band/Guitar Hero on any platform apart from the Wii last gen for my money. And if players are STILL going to be wired to their consoles the same can be said of the PS4 and Xbox One. The Wii SKUs of both of those franchises were much better because you weren't tethered to your console. We're in the 21st Century for gawd's sake, there's no excuse for not having a wireless guitar ffs.


Rock Band always had wireless guitars on PS3...



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oniyide said:

it isnt obvious at all becasue the little bit of party games that have been released on Wii U havent been doing too hot. Very non Ninty games on the system have been doing well and thats kind of the point. 

I'll take it one step further and say this whole genre and style is kinda dead and im not quite sure why they are trying to bring it back. It wont do great anyhwere.


I actually think Rock Band 4 will do well for Harmonix, there are lots of people such as myself who will be getting it just to bring my playlist over to the PS4 (or XB1). I currently keep my PS3 just for Rock Band because I do still enjoy playing the game.

The way Harmonix are doing it is perfect. A single release is all the generation needs, and then all the extra content via the store. That was one thing I really preferred with Rock Band last gen, porting your tracks out to the sequel. But yeah, why bother with a sequel at all really? (That was more an EA requirement I think, I'm sure Harmonix themselves would have been happy just rolling it all out as DLC)

I don't think the genre will ever hit it's lofty heights of 2007-2009 again, but there will definitely be an active enough userbase (and likely some newcomers) to make it worth while for a small independent studio.

2015 is looking like a fantastic year for Harmonix, what with Amplitude's reboot also coming.



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well its true.



oniyide said:
snowdog said:
Well it was pretty pointless buying any Rock Band/Guitar Hero on any platform apart from the Wii last gen for my money. And if players are STILL going to be wired to their consoles the same can be said of the PS4 and Xbox One. The Wii SKUs of both of those franchises were much better because you weren't tethered to your console. We're in the 21st Century for gawd's sake, there's no excuse for not having a wireless guitar ffs.


I dont recall 360 version having wires but i could be wrong. THe only one i got was DJ Hero(love it) and that was wireless


Guitar Hero 2 was wired, and I think the first Rock Band guitar on 360 might have been too. Due to MS having protection on the wireless for the 360.



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I think It's the right call. XBox One sales are going to continue climbing and should really start to outpace the Wii U by the holiday season. Between the PS4 and XB1 sales should be healthy.

Also no third party game outside of ZombiU has even come close to selling one million on the Wii U, unless you count Lego City Undercover but that was published by Nintendo themselves.



It's just that simple.

Skullwaker said:
But I thought the Wii U was a casual console.

 I'm not entirely sure if RB is really a casual game. Yeah, it's very accessible to just about anyone, but if you want to go beyond that, it gets harder than F*CK! In a sense, the same can be said about any video game with a difficulty setting. Rock Band is one of those games that is unbelieveably hard and takes years to master.

OT: I think they just don't want to outright say it; Third Parties just don't care about the Wii-U, because they don't see it as a worthy investment in the long run like they did with previous Nintendo consoles. To be fair, based off what has been successful on the Wii-U so far, they're really not wrong. Why invest money into something, when they're gonna get little to nothing (possibly even lose some) in return? Especially in this case; it's not like they can just do a simple port. They have to create an entire set of instruments for the console. That's gonna cost a pretty penny.





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