Nintendo Wii Fanboy

I do........ i want to cry into my pillow, i'm starting to feel Nintendo is just happy getting by and not really wanting to make good changes........ if I were emo I would cut myself.

You swallowed that tripe?

I mean in the what-if world where Nintendo had continued to follow conventions, certainly they would've been able to make it a straight port (unless the Wii wound up GameCube 2 and was ignored by everyone again), but the fact that they can't come up with a workaround, (which isn't that hard if a team of devs actually sat down and thought about it) is laziness, pure and simple

Basically, its as much about them not caring about this version as it is about the technical limitations of the Wii

If it's so easy I'd like to see you make a 1:1 port of Rock Band for the Wii. Harmonix is the kind of company that cares about the gamers and they don't like screwing over people (like Activision) so I believe that if there were a way to do it they would. If they didn't care and just wanted to get it out the door it would have been here on day 1.

@brokenmonkey

I hate when people say "if it's so easy why don't you do it..." He's not saying it's easy to do, but come on, Harmonix is a game developer. If they're as caring and great as you think they are, don't you think they would've tried innovating at least a little and spent some time figuring out how to make the wii version at least a little unique or different from the others if they couldn't figure out how to fit the good stuff in there? Basically, they crippled the wii version and didn't try to innovate as a good company would have. I know the wii has its weaknesses, but that just allows the developers to innovate on it's strong features. they were lazy, no matter which way you put it.

The fact is, the Wii does not have a storage drive for DLC, simply put. I guarantee you, if there were a way for DLC, Harmonix would have put it in. Why would they choose to lose money? Think of the millions of dollars made off DLC. They don't even have to ship a physical product.

I also don't think the Wii has the power for character creation, not because the Wii couldn't handle designing the character, but to then have the character perform in the background video, I don't think is a challenge the wii could tackle.

If there were a way to do a 1:1 port of Rock Band to Wii, Harmonix would have done it. They know they are going to lose sales over this and they know they are missing out on DLC income.. why would they do that to themselves? I don't think "lazy" works, because money speaks louder than lazy.

snknshps, the Wii does have storage for DLC - the SD slot. At 50MB a song, a 2GB SD card would be able to hold 40 songs. Not bad.

The read times on the SD card make it impossible for songs to run off of it, and Harmonix already said that it's a couple hundred MB per song. So you'd be okay with spending $30 on a 2 GB SD card, waiting all day for the song to load, then after buying 10 songs going out, buying another SD card, and switching them out when you want to play certain songs? Don't forget, you have to turn off the Wii, change the cards, turn it back on, then load the game again.

No offense BrokenMonkey, but $30 for a 2gb SD card? Are you an idiot or really just that far detatched from the real world or any current news. Flash based storage is at an all-time low. It costs nothing to produce SD cards and they sell for 4-8 bucks for a 2 gig and that is pure profit. If you pay anything more then you sir are a moron and should perhaps inform yourself better before making purchases.

On the topic of this blog, who cares, buy a 360 if you want online, get it for your PC or just not at all. If you don't buy it then that will be 150-170 US dollars in your pocket (assuming the launch price is the same).

Doesn't change the fact that 1) it would take a long time to load off the sd card. 2) the wii doesnt have enough internal memory to even load that entire song into ram.

if you want DLC, petition nintendo to make a hard drive
or buy a ps3/xbox360 for your rock band needs.

otherwise, you arn't getting it plain and simple.

The average Wii owner would just go to Target, look at the Wii accessories, buy one of those Wii-branded SD cards (because they think that that's the only one that will work), and pay more than they have to. I'm not saying flash memory isn't cheap, just that the average person wouldn't know to shop around for it.

Speaking of which...

http://www.gamestop.com/Catalog/ProductDetails.aspx?product_id=63723

What's the benefit of GH3 over Rock Band? There's no DLC for it either..

@snkngshps

It is sooooo much cheaper.

But anyways, I'm kind of over the whole rocking video game thing.
I have GH for PS2 and I'm pretty okay with that.
I will admit I was considering Rock Band for Wii, but seriously it's just seeming less and less worth it.

@ snkngshps

GH3 also has the online play that Rock Band will lack.

You mean, the online play that never works.... ?

If you already have it why would you even consider buying it for the Wii?

I wouldn't, but I'd recommend it to a friend who was a Wii-only gamer. But with no DLC, I can't in good conscience recommend this. It'd be a waste of money, IMO.

Completely agree with you on the Motley Crue crap, but without DLC you'll be missing out on great tunes by Boston, Metallica, and others, as well as full albums worth of downloads, coming every week for the next few years.

Mötley Crüe...crap?

You have offended me, good sir.

That is one of the key things holding me back. The lack of customization in characters. I wanted to make a version of me (with some changes) to play lead guitar. I also don't like the version of BWT in the Wii version, with the pre-determined list of songs in each location (i.e. GH3). The thing that automatically made me say no is the inability to use my GH3 guitar. And don't anyone go say anything about it being Activision's fault. it is Harmonix/Pi's fault for being lazy. Had I been able to use my GH3 guitar, I might have considered buying this.

I do have to admit, that is one pretty looking game.

I actually prefer the fact that it doesn't have customizable characters. I never do that crap, I always accept the defaults and get pissed at my friends for taking 10 years to design themselves. Its a damn game I want to play I don't care if the dude on the screen kind of looks like me or not.

@raptorspike

actually it is Activisions/MTV's fault

Other players discovered at the game's launch that the Gibson Les Paul guitar controller bundled with the PlayStation 3 version of Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock is not compatible with the PlayStation 3 version of Rock Band, despite Harmonix stating that any controllers that followed the open-controller standard would work. While this incompatibility can be resolved through technical solutions, both Harmonix and Activision have cited the other party is at fault for failing to correct the incompatibility. Harmonix developed a patch to fix the issue, but it has been blocked by Activision.[111] Activision states that MTV Games is unwilling to reach an agreement to pay Activision to use the Guitar Hero III technology in Rock Band.[112] Nyko has released a PlayStation 3 version of their "Frontman" guitar controller,[113] that works with both Guitar Hero and Rock Band.[114]

SourceJR, there is no special technology on the Wii version. the guitars are just buttons and a cable. the Wii Remote does all the work. EA/Harmonix/Pi are just lazy

So you'd rather be let down by the promise of DLC in GH that you'll never get, than be told the truth from the get-go?