Guitar Hero: World Tour interview

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Holy god I am excited for this game. w00t for Activision.
Also, the new guitar looks so pretty... I might have to mod me GH3 one at some point to look all pretty-like.

I know there has been detractors who say the Wii can't do DLC for various technical reasons – and they are dead wrong

I could have done without this line; seems like too much of a passive-aggressive stab at EA/Harmonix, but seeing as they are competitors, I suppose I can overlook it.

Believe it or not, the number of active online GHIII Wii players is almost equal to Xbox 360. So, there's a really active Wii online community.

Veeeeery interesting, to me at least. Perhaps, outside of shooters (which we don't really have any Wii evidence on), the Wii userbase is more similar to the 360's than we all assume? I mean, I know the attach ratio is only slightly under 360's, but since we don't really have that much usage statistics, I've always assumed that 360 owners definitely play more than wii owners. Maybe that assumption was wrong when it comes to 'known' games, and so any discrepancy seen so far can be blamed on the games the Wii has been given.
We'd need more info to say anything for sure though; I am not willing to make any certain claims on the statements of one company.

we're doing some Wii exclusive stuff we can't talk about just yet.

IGN: Have you thought about licensing Nintendo music for Guitar Hero: World Tour? Imagine rock-style remixes of classic Mario tunes.
Karthik: This is another great idea we have discussed already, but right now there's nothing we can announce for Guitar Hero World Tour.

Now that's exciting. I'm not expecting too much; probably just Mii integration for crowds or something(how effing sweet would that be) or Nintendo songs as DLC. I'm not expecting anything too huge though.

We're a bunch of Nintendo fanboys who want to push what can be done on the Wii and debunk some of the myths about what the system can and can't do. It's been a real tough project so far because we're taking the hard road…so hopefully in the end folks will really enjoy what we've done.

It seems like every non-Ubisoft developer under the sun has started coming out with lines like this recently... I sure hope it's a sign of things to come.