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

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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]

 

So, how is it then different from PS360 version? I don't know if "no DLC" have been announced for Wii, but techwise DLC is as possible on Wii as it's on PS360.

sinha said:
I agree on WiiFit, it will be huge. I don't like anecdotal evidence, but all I know is even my mom wants the damn thing, and so do some of her colleagues.

But anyone who buys Rock Band for Wii is essentially a hardcore Nintendo fanboy and/or a moron:
There are zero (currently known) ways in which the Wii version will be better than the 360/PS3 versions that will have already been out for SEVEN months. The 360/PS3 versions have a long list of features the Wii version will not have. Yet the MSRP for Rock Band Wii is still $169.99! That is just lunacy.

New definition of "fanboy": someone who pays full price for a severely gimped version of a seven month old game.

Now, if i own a Wii, and want to play Rockband, why shouldn't i get the Wii version? Even if gimped, it's still cheaper to pay around 150 for Wii Rockband than 150 for 360 Rockband and 200 for 360. So, for Wii owners, there are 200 reasons to get the Wii version instead of 360 version. And even more reasons when compared to PS3 version. I'd say that you really need to be a hardcore PS360 fanboy to get one of the other versions.