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Rock Band Wii Skips Out on Downloadable Content
By Cole | April 29, 2008
The Wii version of Rock Band, with its sleek white drums and wireless guitar, will release this June. The Wii version will even feature five additional songs that were not included on the other consoles - “Roxanne” by The Police, “Don’t Look Back In Anger” by Oasis, “Roam” by The B-52s, “My Dirty Little Secret” by The All-American Rejects, and “Rockaway Beach” by The Ramones. While these songs are not included off the shelf for the Xbox 360 or PS3, they are available as downloadable content.
Sounds great, but this is where the Wii version drops the ball on one of the major benefits to the other consoles’ versions of Rock Band. Rock Band Wii will not offer downloadable content. A Harmonix representative confirmed to Shacknews that
“The Wii edition of Rock Band will not include online multiplayer or support for downloadable content.”
1Up is also confirming this
“It’s a major bummer that the Wii version of Rock Band will not have online play or downloadable content. We can live without online play, but the lack of downloadable tunes is a big blow to Wii owners, especially when Harmonix releases three new songs every week for the other versions.”
Yes, it’s true, not only will you not be able to download new songs to your Wii, your best friend 1423-2344-5355 and you will not be able to play online.
Rock Band has had a steady flow of downloadable content since it first launched for Xbox 360 and PS3. In fact, those two versions have combined for over 6,000,000 downloads. Averaging somewhere between $1.50 to $2.00 per song, Rock Band has made a killing off of these downloads.
Why will the Wii not offer downloads and online play? Laser Sharks has been unable to find an explanation for this. It appears this is simply a case of Nintendo’s Friend Code strategy.
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April 29th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
this stinks,nintendo should make a hard drive for the wii so us the wii owners could play online and be able to dowload songs….
i have read that the producer of rock band told nintento to make a hardrive but the said no!!!
why?
April 29th, 2008 at 11:11 pm
This isnt up to Nintendo and just a little thing called searching can show that. How is it Blast works comes with DLC and no friends codes if Nintendo demands they be used? Or Medal of Honor heroes2? SSBB has DLC with SD card support..And you act like its jsut the Wii version getting left out but the Wii version is just a port of the PS2 version. Did Nintendo some how work on the PS2 version to stop it from having online and DLC? Of course not. So stop blaming Nintendo and stick th blame where it belongs. If you cant seem to figure that out maybe writing articles online is the wrong line of work for you.Sorry but thats like me blaming Sony because Rockstar screwed up my GTA4 game.
April 30th, 2008 at 3:31 am
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May 1st, 2008 at 2:42 pm
I don’t care if it doesn’t have downloadable play. I love that they are just bringing “Rock Band” to Wii. Do Wii owners want to wait another year for “Rock Band” or do they want a few months. Another way you can look at it is that we get 5 free songs when some wouldn’t even buy the songs.