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

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bdbdbd said:
@Sinha: So, let's see:

1. How many gamers are "educated gamers"? Especially in the casual group, where Rockband is targeted at. Besides, if you're an "educated gamer", you're propably not going to get 360 anyway.

What about the Playstation 2's casual userbase? They got the same gimped Wii version, and look how it did. How is the Wii's userbase, for as good as it is, any different than the 40 million+ owners of PS2s?

2. Why would DLC for Wii have 30MB size per song?

Because the content takes that much space? Your not downloading HD Resolutions with the songs, your downloading multiple audio files of the song, to take the various instruments and notations into account. Because of this, size wouldn't be much smaller/larger, since your rendering is taking place on-disk, and not on-DLC.


4. I was talking about the existing userbase, who doesn't have a reason to get another console to play a "not gimped" game. Not the group that doesn't own any console, to who getting 360 just to play Rockband is a no-brainer, since 360 is 20% cheaper than Wii.

Since every major Wii proponent of RB on Wii without online argue that the game is only for offline, party play, why not goto a friend's house and play the real version of Rock Band on 360/PS3? After all, people that buy Rock Band have probably played it on a 360/PS3, and know what that version includes.

5. Look at Guitar Hero, how did the gimped Wii version do? Did Guitar Hero stop selling because it's gimped Rockband?

Look at the PS2 version of Rock Band, Guitar Hero, and the like, and compare it to the 360, PS3, and others. There's a huge shift in sales because the PS2 version was inferior. Not only this, the Wii version of Guitar Hero 3 wasn't nearly as gimped as rock band.

6. The topic was about revenue, not "will Wii Rockband outsell 360 Rockband".

And if the $170 version of Rockband, on the 360/PS3 are slaughtering the $160 Wii version, who will be making more venue?

7. Is charging same for a gimped version that the not-gimped version is charged a ripoff? Yes, it is. Will it matter to sales? No, it won't.

Tell that to Harmonix making Rock Band on PS2.