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

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Erik Aston said:

sinha said:

Erik Aston said:

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.

But both of you are speculating about the idea of a Rock Band 2, and the idea of switching out various disks for your games, as opposed to the 360/PS3 way of it.

And the issue with that idea, Erik, is the fact that those 60 songs won't be 60 songs you like (again, agreeing your idea is true, and accurate, even though it's entirely based on speculation), whereas the DLC, despite the price, is 100% your choice on songs. And for the record: not every song costs $2 USD. Some are 99 Cents, some are free, and you always have the Song Packs that run $5 for 3 songs, or $8 for 6, so the price is much cheaper than you give it, Erik.

Of course, there might be plenty of stupid Wii owners owner there, willing to pay $160-170 for the much-inferior version of Rock Band. PS2 owners didn't buy into it, so I'd hope that Wii Owners would protest the gimped version of Rock Band, and hope that RB2 gets the same type of treatment the PS3/X360 versions get. Trust me, if you play Rock Band on any sort of big, enjoyable level, you'd understand how important the DLC is to the nature of the game. Because I'd rather choose a Metallica, Oasis, or Nine Inch Nails pack over some sort of Harmonix made-up bonus crap.