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MTV, Harmonix, EA continue conspicuous assery toward Wii

Submitted by on June 30, 2008 – 7:34 pm4 Comments

As the Wii version of Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock is the strongest selling version of that game, it’s become obvious to everyone with a pulse that the makers of Rock Band completely missed the boat by not delivering their game to Wii owners in a reasonable timeframe. After an embarrassingly late PS2 port was announced for Wii with an insulting feature set lacking most of what makes Rock Band worthwhile, Activision came forward and stole the game’s lunch money with an incredible list of promises for the Wii version of Guitar Hero: World Tour.

It’s also quickly becoming apparent that Rock Band‘s makers have no intention of fighting to get that lunch money back. Now that Rock Band 2 has been announced, we might expect EA and MTV to be doing their best to try to step up with a Wii version that matches the PS3 and 360′s feature sets. Alas, mention of the Wii version of Rock Band 2 is being presented very much as an afterthought, which is not promising: the 360 will get the game, followed by PS3, and (eventually) Wii. Sound familiar? It’s the same song we got last year.

My initial shock gave way to the realization that with the original Rock Band in stores less than two weeks right now for Wii, hyping Rock Band 2 for Wii would be a very bad idea. I suppose we could all hope they have their act together more than it seems, but let’s be honest: their ship has sailed. Harmonix invented Guitar Hero, but Activision studios Neversoft and Vicarious Visions are working much, much harder to bring the games to everyone. If World Tour lives up to the claims of its publisher, EA and MTV are in for a bruising.

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  • http://www.thevirtualunderground.net/mclazyj/blog/ Joe Haygood

    But the opposite could be said the other way around. Harmonix, can write off the Wii marketshare, because it is eating Guitar Hero III for lunch on the 360 and PS3, along with the PS2. Downloads are better, play style is better and the online is way, way better. Same thing in band mode. Guitar Hero World Tour comes to the party way late, and still does not give us any hope of good, regularly scheduled downloadable content. Add in the fact that Guitar Hero is determined to water down the brand any way possible, will it be long before we see Guitar Hero Count Bassie, because of all the spin offs they want to release each year.

    And yeah, another reference the kids won’t get. because like Brucie, that’s how I roll.

  • salesmunn

    It’s all about the micropayments of aftersale songs. If Nintendo can’t deliver on the marketplace front, that takes a lot of change out of their profits.

  • http://www.aeropause.com Stephen Munn

    They have no excuse for not having the downloadable songs. GHIV has downloadable songs, which can go straight to the SD Card and run from there. SSB:Brawl did this as well with screenshots. Launch title Excite Truck was able to play MP3s in-game from the SD Card. Where’s EA’s excuse for leaving it out? The same place Activision’s is for leaving DLC out of GHIII, but at least they had online play.

  • http://www.aeropause.com/author/matthew-kellar/ Matthew Kellar

    Has Harmonix announced that Rock Band 2 won’t have downloadable songs for the Wii? If they have ignore the rest of this comment. I would assume RB2 will have downloadable content if GHIV is going to. If not, I’d have to say Nintendo is more to blame than Harmonix. Sure, it is possible, but it might not be economically worth it since Nintendo owners would, on the whole, be less likely to take advantage of this as opposed to Xbox or PS3 owners.

    At least Harmonix is making DVD-based song packs available for Rock Band 1 in store…something Activision isn’t doing for GHIII.

    If we’re going to make comparisons, let’s try to compare GHIII with RB and GHIV with RB2.