From there, it's only a matter of time before the slippery slope delivers us straight into unfinished games with content held back for more money, "premium" Mii parts and Wii Menu colors. Welcome to the future! Hope you brought money.
Welcome to next-generation online services: Wii Ware to have pay DLC
From there, it's only a matter of time before the slippery slope delivers us straight into unfinished games with content held back for more money, "premium" Mii parts and Wii Menu colors. Welcome to the future! Hope you brought money.
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11-07-2007 @ 10:50AM
racecar said...
Nothing new. Guitar Hero II content for Xbox Live Marketplace is a well-working example (i.e. buy Guitar Hero I songs that were previously unavailable for Xbox). This "pay for new features" idea isn't new for Nintendo. It could be seen long ago when the Internet Channel was no longer available for free. As honorable as we'd like to think Nintendo is for giving out free content (Everybody Votes Channel), they're in it for the money, too. My only hope is that if they start doing customizable Wii Menus/Backgrounds/Etc., they keep it open for us to play with as well. Doubt it, though.
-racecar
http://everybodyvotes.blogspot.com
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11-07-2007 @ 11:08AM
Zack W. said...
Well, at least there is no coin slot on the front of the Wii...we will have to wait for the second-gen run hardware updates for that to happen.
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11-07-2007 @ 11:35AM
SNKNGSHPS said...
I see it as kind of a positive. The game you're talking is coming with over 200 levels already, so I don't think they are skimping on the game at all. Plus, this just further hints to the announcement of a Wii hard drive. Remember how Nintendo kept denying the DS Lite before it was released? I'm pretty sure we'll see the announcement of a hard drive by the launch of Wii Ware in March. They know people want it and they know we will need space to put our games and new content.
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11-07-2007 @ 11:48AM
Joe H said...
What they should do is just let games/ DLC/ VC be run directly off the SD card, it would make the slot actually useful for once.
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11-07-2007 @ 11:49AM
Joe H said...
Also, maybe this means we actually will get the DLC for Guitar Hero III on Wii.
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11-07-2007 @ 11:53AM
Cesaria said...
As sad as this sounds, I hardcore crave more Mii customization. I second the notion that we're one step closer to a Wii hard drive. I don't feel like having to download something every time i want to play it.
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11-07-2007 @ 12:12PM
Jay said...
I would pay for mii related stuff. I have a mohawk and I haven't been able to make a "real" version of mii because they don't really have one available. Of course, I've gotten creative and it looks ok, but a real one would look much better.
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11-07-2007 @ 3:45PM
jan_halmes said...
People always complain about the Wii's lack of downloadable content. I think those people are fools.
If you go spend $50 on a delicious steak and french fries at a resturaunt, do you want to get your full order of fries over the cost of year in $5 a fry installments?
I know people that have speant more than $150 on Guitar Hero II, when that level of contest should have cost nearly half that.
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11-28-2007 @ 1:11PM
Kwil said...
It depends, if you think the content should have been included from the start and are willing to sit there waiting with nothing to play until it's done and then paying the full-price for the whole thing, then the steak and fry analogy makes sense.
If, on the other hand, you think of it as ordering a la carte, you want the steak now and don't want to wait for the fries to be ready, and may decide not to get the fries at all depending on how good or bad the steak is, then it makes more sense.
Remember, nobody's being forced to purchase DLC, so if they do so, they obviously see a value to it above and beyond their original game purchase. If that's the case, why on earth shouldn't developers make money above and beyond the original game?