| rocketpig said: If you look at the amount of effort going into Rock Band's DLC and how bloody successful (and profitable) it has been for MTV, EA, and Harmonix, I doubt they're just phoning this in because they don't care about the Wii. It wouldn't be unlike Nintendo to be holding things up on their end for some stupid reason. God, that company reminds me of Apple so much at times and it drives me insane (and I'm a Mac user). Why can't Nintendo fans just admit that Nintendo's online strategy is f***ing retarded? It's ridiculous to see something so restricted and backwards in 2008.
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I am in no way defending Nintendo's online service. While it is sufficient for me, I am well aware many others have serious problems with what it lacks. I certainly wouldn't say it was great, or try and defend it against the many valid complaints.
Square-Enix has a game already out with dlc. It can be done. There is no denying that at this point, and the line from Harmonix was it could not be done at all. The reason Harmonix, MTV, and EA phoned it in was they were doing a quick port of the PS2 version. The Wii version lacks all the same features despite the increased capabilities. Notice how there is no online play at all despite Guitar Hero 3 having it. The games are getting released near a year apart and the older version has more features. That doesn't quite add up now does it? Nintendo has a lot of issues restricting games and that will hold many things back, but this is almost certainly not one of the problems. The evidence just points too strongly towards a money grab with this version of the game.
