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HappySqurriel on 09 April 2008
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windbane said:
ZenfoldorVGI said:
All Nintendo needs to do it open up the SD cards for use with games.

If Harmonix actually wanted Nintendo to make a HD, they should have just made DLC an option, and let people complain to Nintendo that there wasn't enough room to fit most of their stuff. Blaming no HD is a convenient lie.

The criticisms against Nintendo are kinda silly, in this topic. I mean, mrstickball, you kinda went off, lol. You don't like Nintendo? I'm fairly sure they kept the storage low for costs, and not out of spite. I don't think it was quite the fatal error you make it out to be. In fact, out of all the gaming companies, I would say Nintendo is certainly the most clever. I know it's not Microsoft or Sony, that's for sure. I'm sure when the inevitable storage solution is made, it'll sell millions and millions, for billions of dollars, while giving the non-online gamer the option not to buy it.

Respectful reply to mrstickball aside, I see a ton of anti-Nintendo posts from known anti-nintendo fanboys, who are bandwagon jumping in this topic, to flame Nintendo. Know this, the topic has grown to long for me to call out each and every one of you, so know that your heavily biased opinion isn't slipping under the radar here in such a smart community. You're broken records.

#1: Not everyone has SD cards. #2: SD cards are not enough to hold all the DLC you need for games. #3: I'm not anti-Nintendo, I'm mad that my Wii isn't as good as it should be. If I was just playing Rock Band, I guess a 2GB stick would be large enough, but it's not just Rock Band's problem! I'm currently using tens of gigs for content on my PS3, and not being able to do the same thing with Wii games and demos is annoying. If it was possible for Harmonix to stream songs from an SD card, and Nintendo let them do DLC (what other games have official DLC, btw? Where can I go on my Wii to download that?), then they should have the option. They should also have the option for online play on both the PS2 and Wii versions, not that I see much use in that personally (unlike a lot of games which need online play such as Mario Kart). I just don't see how you can expect Harmonix to go out of their way to get Nintendo to allow them to do all of these things when most people just have the 512MB of space that isn't just used for Rock Band.

 

But from all of our knowlege Harmonix doesn't have to get Nintendo to do anything to take advantage of the Wii's SD card adapter; on top of that not everyone has a hard-drive for the XBox 360 yet Harmonix found a way to have downloadable content for the XBox 360.

I don't think that anyone here is saying that Nintendo's approach to storage space or online games is great (or even particularly good) but I think everyone will admit that it is adequate to provide the content that Harmonix claims can not be done; this means that Harmonix is lying, probably to pass the buck and place the blame for their shoddy port on Nintendo.