I just... only want "Moonage Daydream." But I want it so bad it's worth $30. I guess if I pay $2 each for Boston, NIN, and the Police, I'm only paying $24 for Bowie. Fuck this sucks. It's making me madder the more I think about it.

Well I'm too broke to get Rock Band at launch anyway, but I'll pick both of these up some day in the distant future if I ever have money again.

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So, they can't get DLC? Why not?

I might get rock band now

Nice gesture, but being able to pick out songs is better than a discount, anyday.

I disagree with you.

You place the blame for lack of DLC on Nintendo when the true fault lies with the publishers. They could easily release DLC for Rock Band Wii. 5 or 6 songs could fit on the HD if I'm not mistaken.

What this would do is:

A. Cause Nintendo to take serious notice of the storage problem.

B. Earn revenue for Nintendo and the publishers of Rock Band.

Instead, what obviously happened is the developers weren't sure about the validity of DLC on the Wii due to several factors:

1. Thought they would be blamed for the storage problems by releasing large DLC.

2. DLC is not a prove money maker on the Wii.

3. Rock Band has already, for lack of a better term, "blown its load." It's likely to sell poorly on the Wii due to the late released and inferior quality.

4. It would require no extra development to port from PS2 to Wii, if you leave out the online mode.

I think the main argument against this being Nintedo's fault is this:

The game is a direct port of the PS2 version. Even with DLC, it would still be the inferior version of Rock Band in almost every way. DLC is just the major issue that has risen out of the number of smaller issues. Harmonix has sucessfully diverted attention towards Nintendo as blame for Wii's Rock Band sucking, while at least most, if not all of the blame lies directly with whoever calculated their risk/cost/benefit analysis.

When you look at it that way, it's hard to call Nintendo retarded because of Rock Band, and frankly, the decision to trim costs by reducing internal storage to a minimum turned out to be a pretty successful business decision, if not a practical one, I think you'll agree. 

Certainly. However, and I'm back on topic, it is still at least showing that the company is listening to its Wii/PS2-owning fans, which is a nice gesture, and certainly better than nothing at all.

The game just went from guarnteed suck to a good deal, despite its inferiority to the original AAA version of Rock Band.

If Harmonix decides to offer more than one of these compilation CD's for replacement of DLC, it could turn out pretty good.

The thing is, imo, the quality of the songs you don't DL, on RockBand, often eludes you. Some of my favorite songs on Guitar Hero are songs I never thought I would like or care for. Turns out I was wrong about them. I am more than willing to be wowed by songs I never heard of and songs I would probably have never downloaded, being added to a compilation CD. It will balance and diversify the experience verses picking only songs you know and like.

ZenfoldorVGI :

The thing is, imo, the quality of the songs you don't DL, on RockBand, often eludes you. Some of my favorite songs on Guitar Hero are songs I never thought I would like or care for. Turns out I was wrong about them. I am more than willing to be wowed by songs I never heard of and songs I would probably have never downloaded, being added to a compilation CD. It will balance and diversify the experience verses picking only songs you know and like.



sorry i don`t know how to quote well, but i totally agree with you.

Oh wow! Buy 20 songs for $30 that you already get on the 360/PS3 for near the same price without disc swapping!

This ISN'T a means to justify the gimped PS2/Wii version. This is a mere "Guitar Hero Rocks the 80s" money grab.

Go ahead and buy it, the songs are nice, but don't think your getting a good, or special deal: buying those songs individually is NOT $40. Some of those songs are 99 cents, and many of them are in various packs that are less than $2/song.

I mean, if you really want 20 songs for $30 (which is a ripoff because you can get 50+ songs for $50 or whatever the RB disk is).

So how will this work?

You buy the disk then install it and then pass it to a freind :) ? Or run the game off the disk with new songs? How does the ps2/wii know you have the real copy of rockband?