Wii Fit + Rock Band Wii = Death of "revenue" argument for 360 apologists

[Erik Aston]

sinha said:

Erik Aston said:

mrstickball said:
May I ask why the Wii version of Rock Band is going to do gangbusters, when the PS2 version, from any standards, was DOA?

I suspect more new songs will be sold via the inevitable disc-based expansions to Rock Band than by DLC, so there should still be a market for a "gimped" version.

So the choices are:

1) Buy Rock Band for PS3/360 and play songs whenever you want, in any order you want. Buy up to 3 new songs a week, and buy only the songs you like.

2) Buy Rock Band Wii and insert Disk 1 to play songs A, B, and C; insert Disk 2 expansion to play songs D, E, F; insert Disk 3 expansion... Wait X months for the next disc-based expansion to be released (certainly not weekly), and pay for every song on the disk whether you like a song or not.

So when you say more new songs will be sold via disc-based expansions than via DLC, basically you're saying most consumers look at the options and make economically irrational decisions?

 

[And this is ignoring for a minute the ten other ways Rock Band Wii is gimped compared to the 360 and PS3 versions]

 

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If the Rock Band 2 disc alone costs about $50 for Wii, and contains about 60 songs (first game: 58), that's a much better deal than $2 a song or whatever the DLC works out to be. Just because you have to switch discs and wait between releases doesn't make it different from any other game series before 2005.