Rockband Wii DLC?

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BennyWii

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I heard on a podcast that Rockband for the Wii has downloadable content. They say that you will buy the songs and put them onto an SD card and the game will read them of that.
Is this true??
 
Wrong game. The next Guitar Hero game is supposed to have DLC downloaded to the SD card.

Rock Band 1 for the Wii has no support for DLC; as for Rock Band 2, nobody knows.
 
[quote name='AmigoOne']Well if RockBand 2 doesn't, they would just be shooting themselves in the foot.[/quote]
Will a second bullet really hurt that much?
 
Ahh, that's the stupid on-disc "DLC" solution. fuck that, I'd rather have REAL downloadable content on another console (360, perhaps?) that I can actually CHOOSE, instead of EA and Harmonix having to choose FOR me.

Again I say, when will Nintendo figure out that DLC is something they BADLY need? Maybe as soon as next week's E3, with (hopefully) a revamped Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection service (imho, something sorely needed, FRIEND CODES DO NOT fuckING WORK, REGGIE!! DO YOU HEAR ME???).

BJ
 
[quote name='BennyWii']I heard on a podcast that Rockband for the Wii has downloadable content. They say that you will buy the songs and put them onto an SD card and the game will read them of that.
Is this true??[/QUOTE]
No, that'd require actual effort from Harmonix and MTV. :bomb:

--R.J.
 
I remember way back when all you got with a game was what it came with, and it was called a finished product...


Snarky comments aside, I'm actually curious - are those of you who are so full of sound and fury about the Wii and DLC also owners of 360s or PS3s?

I'm wondering if part of the reason I don't see what all the fuss is about is because I don't own either of the other two systems and have never had a game that wasn't limited to just what I bough off the shelf. It's kind of a chicken-egg thing though, because a large part of why I didn't want a 360 was because of the additional cost associated with DLC and the fact that it's very nature encourages incomplete releases. (Yes, I know that some games are good and only made better by DLC...)
 
True. I'm a little less resistant to DLC, especially in a format like RB where it truly does add to the game, while still being optional, than I am to using the "DLC" method as a way of patching buggy/incomplete console games. DLC is easy to abuse, and we could say "don't release the game till it's complete", but in the case of some games, it is complete, but six months or a year later they release optional maps or whatnot for a reasonable price. Of course, their motive in this is at least threefold: stretch out the revenue stream, revive interest in an old game, and get us more used to buying nonresellable, "secure", price-fixed DRMed digital content.
I have a Wii and a 360, and though I don't game online much, I never have on the Wii, it's just too much of a hassle. I like having access to the DLC on 360, and I really like the interactive dashboard, though I wish they'd put a web browser on it (I understand some of the arguments against it).
I like RB DLC because now I don't have to wait for Rock Band Add-On Disk #3 and buy thirty songs, fifteen of which I don't like. With the volume of songs they're putting out, I am at least partially interested in something at least every week, and it helps to keep the game fresh.
DLC could be used in more consumer-friendly ways, too: why buy Madden 2009 for sixty bucks, when you could download the 2009 rosters for 1200 points, or 80 points a team or something, and "patch" your game with that new content? (Of course, the argument works the other way for that one--the revenue stream is the hard copy disks for full price with annual team changes).
Nintendo has done some great, innovative, industry changing things with the Wii; but their resistant to online capabilities is baffling.
 
I actually DON'T own a 360. At least, not yet.

I probably will, though, if Nintendo continues to fuck over us hardcore Nintendo nerds and not give us what we want, what we really, really want! :D

BJ
 
[quote name='mephitical']I remember way back when all you got with a game was what it came with, and it was called a finished product...

[/quote]

This doesn't apply to Rock Band at all.
 
[quote name='mephitical']I remember way back when all you got with a game was what it came with, and it was called a finished product...


Snarky comments aside, I'm actually curious - are those of you who are so full of sound and fury about the Wii and DLC also owners of 360s or PS3s?

I'm wondering if part of the reason I don't see what all the fuss is about is because I don't own either of the other two systems and have never had a game that wasn't limited to just what I bough off the shelf. It's kind of a chicken-egg thing though, because a large part of why I didn't want a 360 was because of the additional cost associated with DLC and the fact that it's very nature encourages incomplete releases. (Yes, I know that some games are good and only made better by DLC...)[/quote]
As someone else said, this doesn't really apply to games like Rock Band and Guitar Hero.

They can add songs later that are a lot more niche, that would never make it onto a 40-song setlist or whatnot. The Jimmy Buffett tunes for Rock Band are a perfect example of this.

I don't own a 360 or a PS3, but it irks me that those owners get things that the Wii version doesn't. Granted, I can live with the lesser graphics and understand that the less powerful processor can only do so much, but stuff like DLC should be done on the Wii.

I don't really care for DLC that's basically just unlocking stuff that's on the disc, but downloadable new songs for Rock Band and Guitar Hero make me jealous that I "only" have a Wii and not a 360 or PS3.
 
Until we hear/see differently from Nintendo, do not buy the Wii for its online/DLC experience.

They do not seem to be that worried about it and the only way to let them know that DLC and online is important is to use the systems that do it correctly. They will listen when it affects their business. And so far, it definitely isn't.
 
I just recently got a 360 (when GTA4 came out) but I can say that I've wanted DLC on the Wii from the beginning. It was something they actually promised would come with WiiConnect24 but it really hasn't so far. Maybe we'll hear some annoucements at this E3.
 
[quote name='rjung']No, that'd require actual effort from Harmonix and MTV. :bomb:

--R.J.[/QUOTE]
Harmonix puts out DLC each and every week so they're putting out plenty of effort. A first for any title really. RB on Wii is gimped due to the Wii's limitations, not developer laziness.
 
[quote name='CouRageouS']Harmonix puts out DLC each and every week so they're putting out plenty of effort. A first for any title really. RB on Wii is gimped due to the Wii's limitations, not developer laziness.[/quote]
It's gimped because it was easier and cheaper for them to have their outsourced developer port the Wii version than to port the 360/PS3 version.
 
[quote name='CouRageouS']RB on Wii is gimped due to the Wii's limitations, not developer laziness.[/quote]Wait...then how, exactly, is the next GH getting around this limitation?

I'm on the lazy port bandwagon. The only difference between the Wii and PS2 version appears to be the color of the instruments. I was certainly expecting more since it took them so long to release the Wii version.

Having said that, I bought RB Wii at release and have been having a blast. Family and friends included.
 
If this DLC thing isn't resolved, it's really going to suck when Rockband 2 comes out, considering it won't get those extra 20 free songs.
 
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