No Hard Drive for Wii – No DLC for Rock Band
By Stephany on Wednesday, April 9th, 2008 at 12:03 PM PST In Electronic Arts, Game Companies, Game Consoles, Gamer Life, Games, Nintendo, Nintendo
More bad news concerning Rock Band.
Apparently, the reason behind the Wii version’s lack of DLC has to do with the fact that the Wii does not have a hard drive.
Once again, Rob Kay a representative for Harmonix, weighed in on the Rock Band situation, but this time it was a plea to Nintendo:
“Come on Nintendo, we need a hard drive. That’s what we want. The whole problem is there’s nowhere to store it… If the platform could do it, we’d jump on it. It’s something that we championed to Nintendo, that we’d like to do it. Who knows what will happen down the line… but that’s the reason there’s no DLC in Wii Rock Band”
Nintendo has stated from the get-go that there is no need for an external hard-drive, but maybe if enough people complain they may reconsider.
Thanks: CVG
This is bullcrap. I’ve got a 2 GB card in my Wii. At 20 megs per song (using Still Alive as an example), I could store 100 of them. Then I could pop the card out, plug it into my laptop and dump the data and plug it back into the Wii fresh for another 100 songs.
Except the Wii cant acess the Mem card while the system is doing other things.. its ONLY for storage.
If this is true, where the hell do all the Virtual Console games I bought go? Do I download them temporarily ever single time I play it?
Fail.
“Except the Wii cant acess the Mem card while the system is doing other things.. its ONLY for storage.”
If I can play MP3 stored on the SD card while I play Excite Truck, then it’s clearly accessing the SD card during gameplay. I call bullshit. This could be done with the SD card no problem. But, yes, I would like HDD support too, so please NIntendo make it happen!
I love Nintendo, but they are so damn stubborn sometimes it really makes me mad.
It’s Harmonix being ignorant, not Nintendo being stubborn.
Please Nintendo GIVE ME A HARD DRIVE!
I love the whole fast-ass flash memory deal you got going on, BUT FLASH MEMORY ONLY GOES SO FAR!
I can has HDD? Nintendo, it’s in your hands now.