If your Wii's teensy amount of storage space currently resembles an overflowing suitcase, then Guitar Hero: World Tour isn't about to make life any easier.
According to Vicarious Visions' Karthik Bala, the game allows you to download songs to an SD card, but you'll still require "about 200" free blocks of memory to be used as a "content cache" for the song you're playing through. Once you've finished with that track, you can clear the cache and transport another of your downloaded songs to your 200 reserved blocks. Transferring songs, explains Bala, happens "pretty quickly."
It sounds like a workable solution, but 200 blocks? That's the equivalent of six Mega Man 2s or three Super Metroids, and is bigger than some N64 games; we're also curious about Karthik Bala's personal definition of "pretty quickly." Protip, Nintendo: if you were thinking of announcing a storage solution in the next decade, next week's Japanese Media Summit would be the ideal time.
[Via Go Nintendo]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
9-24-2008 @ 4:32PM
Roto13 said...
Be happy you get DLC at all. :P
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9-24-2008 @ 4:58PM
Ferco said...
I'm very happy.
9-24-2008 @ 5:21PM
eugaet said...
Extremely happy.
I'll be skipping Rock Band this iteration.
9-24-2008 @ 4:55PM
Hafk said...
What a price for DLC. But still, having DLC that's kinda a pain is better than no DLC at all!
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9-24-2008 @ 5:16PM
comtar said...
Sadly this is why I am getting Mega Man 9 on the PS3, I am just getting very low on storage right now on my Wii, I don't like the idea of having to remove data only to redownload it. I would think games could run off the SD Card or even run off a USB hard drive with a simple patch. There seems to be proof right now Wii systems in Hospitals are rigged with an external drive to contain the games without the discs... so the technology is already out there in available, just not to the general public, and that's the part I think truly blows.
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9-24-2008 @ 7:27PM
grp110nyr said...
I see your point about redownloading VC games but I recently did it since I upgraded my wireless router for $45 the download times seem to be very fast and tolerable.
9-24-2008 @ 8:33PM
bug frawg said...
While there may already be a wii hard drive(or just a regular drive working with a firmware patch) you gotta remember that the unit is in a hospital where they generally know it won't be used for piracy. data executable from external memory is every pirate's dream.(yes, you can pirate wii games now, but a hard drive could make for convenient storage for illgotten goods)
9-25-2008 @ 1:29AM
Roto13 said...
I copy everything to my SD card soon after I download it for the first time. Then I don't have to bother to keep track of what I can delete and what I can't, and when I want to play a deleted game it takes like 30 seconds to copy it back from the SD card. It'd take me longer than that to get up and load a disc. :P
9-24-2008 @ 5:21PM
Ronny said...
I was debating on whether or not to get this for the wii or the ps3. I have 2 GH III guitars for the wii and like how they vibrate during star power. But had finally decided to get it for the ps3, even though I'd have to buy 2 more guitars. I figured that vicarious visions would have to go with the whole "empty out the refrigerator thing."
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9-24-2008 @ 6:32PM
HappyFunBall said...
Now, if they hold up their end of getting quality DLC, I'll be happy.
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9-24-2008 @ 6:35PM
Calvin said...
Yeah, I like Guitar Hero, and my Wii has plenty of space once I delete some of my VC/Wiiware titles that I don't play anymore.
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9-24-2008 @ 7:27PM
grp110nyr said...
200 blocks is nothing. I just deleted a bunch of VC games that I have not played in a while. Yes I would have liked more space but Acti and Nintendo seemed to have come up with a solution and it is not a $160 HDD attachment ala MS add on. I am looking forward to this one and have to prevent myself from getting RB2 everyday.
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9-24-2008 @ 8:09PM
Louie said...
Well, I recently ordered a 2-pack of 2GB SD cards, at least one of them is destined for the Wii. And I don't have any other purpose for the other yet. I think the 2-pack was around $12-13 on Buy's website
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9-24-2008 @ 8:13PM
Gewurztraminer says: Shinkuu Gadouken! said...
I'm sure I could scrounge up a good 200 blocks pretty quickly if needed. That Ocarina of Time channel still hasn't gotten any play...
Besides, I think I've got around 180 left at the moment. With nothing currently on the SD card save for some photos.
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9-24-2008 @ 8:37PM
bug said...
Am I correct in assuming that the Wii's flash storage works like other flash storage? If so, this could cause some major problems. The stuff has a definite life span, and too much writing can kill it pretty quickly.
Want proof? Defrag a typical USB drive a couple times....
I have absolutely no interest in this kind of game (except maybe for the drum parts), but I do think that they need to do *something* about the storage options because of things like this.
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9-24-2008 @ 11:29PM
bug frawg said...
Given I own games that already write that often to flash, it's a safe bet that flash units used for game consoles are designed to endure a larger number of writes.
9-24-2008 @ 9:42PM
KIMP said...
How many blocks can a 2GB card hold for the Wii?
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9-24-2008 @ 11:11PM
bug frawg said...
The wii is saying my 2gb has '14824 blocks free' after I had to move some of my brawl vault data(about 60 blocks worth) and a few channels to the card, if that helps.
9-25-2008 @ 4:06AM
Matt said...
Hey, if the DLC actually works, this is fine by me.
http://www.miitube.co.uk/
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