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windbane on 09 April 2008
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HappySqurriel said:
windbane said:
Lazy port? Ok, but who really wants online play for Rock Band? It kind of defeats the purpose of a Rock Band. I understand online play for others games but not Rock Band, really...maybe that's just me...I've yet to use it with my copy.

I think people should just give up on this hard drive idea because Nintendo doesn't seem to care. Maybe if they release Pikmin or Animal Crossing MMO bundled with a hard drive they'd do it, because they only bundle new peripherals.

SD cards are more expensive than cheap hard drives, don't hold the space I need for stuff on my PS3 (including Rock Band), and the transfer rates using the Wii and an SD card are horrible. I can't imagine trading out files to play different songs (which would ikely require exiting the game).

You can buy 2GB SD cards on special for (about) $5, that's pretty cheap if you ask me; on a per-gigabyte basis it is half the cost of the 20GB XBox 360 hard-drive. On top of that SD cards have always had much higher transfer rates than DVD discs so I doubt that it would be any slower to transfer the songs from SD than from the original disc.

Basically, since Rock Band for the Wii was announced they have said that it was going to be (pretty much) exactly the same game that was released for the PS2; the truth is they can do everything they say they can't they just won't because (like all EA developers) the quality of the product they release is no longer important.


Yeah, and I got a free 2GB usb key from work, but that's not the normal price. Way to go comparing the cost to the most expensive hard drive in the world, the 20GB 360 HD. But the main point isn't the cost, it's just that Nintendo isn't going to do it. I already have an SD card and most peope do for cameras, but 2GB is not enough for DLC for all the games I have. I have 3 demos that are more than 2GB. I do not want to manage with that little space. 4GB sticks cost even more. Hard drives are much cheaper. As for transfer rates...it's not the SD card, it's the freaking Nintendo Wii. It's the slowest transfer I've ever seen. I use it to transfer tiny save files and it annoys me. Luckily I don't buy their over-priced VC games because I know there are people that have to trade those out using an SD card and that must suck. I just don't think Nintendo is going to bother. Their demographic doesn't care.