| mrstickball said: Don't you understand that it would be in EA/Harmonix/MTV's best interest to give Wii owners the best version of Rock Band? Don't you think that making a Wii version 6-9 months after the initial launch of the game is NOT something that they'd prefer to give you an inferior version over. Don't give me the Square Enix DLC bullcrap. We're talking about FF:CC's few-megs of DLC versus Rock Band's DLC that takes upto 5+ gigabytes of data, that span ALOT of things - title updates, patches, and lots of new goodies. Where is GH3's DLC for Wii too? Again, your trying to compare piecemeal DLC efforts by square for a downloadable game versus fully fleshed out content for DLC. And where are the Wii Demos for big games? Why are they not there? If Nintendo had ANY capability to offer competent, robust online services, why aren't there bigger, better efforts than a few downloadable games and piecemeal content? PSN and XBL have hundreds (and even thousands) of gigabytes of downloadable content versus only a few gigs of Wii content...Despite the Wii having the hardware lead...Despite software selling well...Everything Nintendo has done for online has been a day late and a dollar short (a Rock Band song)....So why are we to suddenly blame a company that is known for money-grubbing ways versus the host of the content? And to date, Rock Band is nearing 10 million songs downloaded - at $2 a pop, it's made more money than many non-AAA games on the Wii, 360, and PS3. Thats huge. Why wouldn't EA want that on a system that has more units in the wild than any other (and a track record to show that a robust RB could sell well)? |
Let us step back and look at this port as a whole. It lacks dlc forsupposedly a good reason. It lacks online multiplayer because? It lacks custom character creation beacause? It lacks world tour mode because? It lacks compatability with the Guitar Hero 3 guitar because? There is no defending this port. It is a shameless money grab and it fucking reaks of it. EA is trying to make a quick cash-in, and maybe establish the games name on the system. It is in Harmonix et alls best interest to do a full port, but they chose not to. It is undeniably a half assed port of the game to make a quick buck just like the PS2 version. There probably is a very good reason for dlc being completely absent from the Wii, but that ain't the reason Rock Band Wii will lack it.
And read my first post again. I have never claimed they could do it well. Hell if they had come out and said we just don't think people would want to have to shuffle songs on a thousand external memory cards I wouldn't be saying a thing. I am not doubting that there are severe technical barriers that cause dlc on the wii to be an issue. I am doubting that Harmonix put enough effort to find even one of them though. There is no excuse for the crippled port the Wii is getting, and I will be damned if I keep my mouth shut while people blame the wrong company for parts of it. This is a C team effort, and Harmonix deserves to be bashed over it.
