When reached for comment, Activision said:
Due to technical or licensing restrictions, the DLC offerings will not be the same for every console platform. For example, certain artists prefer to keep the integrity of the track pack rather than releasing singles and the Wii’s infrastructure only allows us the ability to release single songs as DLC.
We are very excited to be the first third-party publisher to bring a library of playable DLC songs to the Nintendo Wii platform. Vicarious Visions has pioneered with Nintendo a seamless way to download, store and access songs via SD Card. The development team is committed to offering Wii fans worldwide as much variety of DLC as possible on a regular basis.
This statement raises even more questions. Why can't Wii have track packs? Why don't certain musicians and their representatives allow single song downloads? We're still looking for answers, but at least for now, Wii owners will be missing out on the chance to jam on these Jimi Hendrix songs.
Flames, that's a good point about Samba. I guess maybe the SD card system that VV developed for Guitar Hero could have some limitation that won't allow track packs.
Wii can have track packs, Nintendo's Policy is not to have the same content twice on their servers meaning no track packs and no singles if they both contain the same thing in them.That can't be true, as My Life as a King has some content (like the race unlocks) available both independently and in a bundle.
Wii can have track packs, Nintendo's Policy is not to have the same content twice on their servers meaning no track packs and no singles if they both contain the same thing in them.That can't be true, as My Life as a King has some content (like the race unlocks) available both independently and in a bundle.
Wii can have track packs, Nintendo's Policy is not to have the same content twice on their servers meaning no track packs and no singles if they both contain the same thing in them.That can't be true, as My Life as a King has some content (like the race unlocks) available both independently and in a bundle.
Wii can have track packs, Nintendo's Policy is not to have the same content twice on their servers meaning no track packs and no singles if they both contain the same thing in them.That can't be true, as My Life as a King has some content (like the race unlocks) available both independently and in a bundle.
Those are just unlock codes though.
[...]Nintendo's Policy is not to have the same content twice on their servers meaning no track packs and no singles if they both contain the same thing in them.[...]
http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/tabs/jimi_hendrix_tabs.htm
Well so much for the Wii having the best version of Guitar Hero: World Tour. I still haven't been able to find the game and well this puts Rock Band 2 more in consideration for me. It does afterall support the GH3 guitar I already have. But it probalby will be compromised too.
The sad thing is what I REALLY should consider is getting an Xbox 360 for my music game needs. The Wii is pretty much completely f*cking useless for any game not made by Nintendo. You either don't get the game at all or it's compromised.
I blame Activision, I blame the Hendrix estate and I blame Nintendo. The fact that the Wii always gets screwed like this and happens to have by far the stupidest model for DLC and storage and by far has the weakest hardware puts a lot of the blame on Nintendo. This isn't directly their fault but this sh!t just keeps happening and they designed the hardware and all the limitations that came with it.
If Nintendo ever acknowledged third parties as anything more than competition then maybe I wouldn't be so hard on them. But they don't see to care at all about these problems. Meanwhile regarding third party games Microsoft tries to get exclusive Xbox 360 content and limited exclusivity and that all the instruments are compatible with all the games. Nintendo doesn't do that sort of stuff at all. All they seem to care about is if I buy their console and their games. Whether I'm actually satisfied with the Wii and have a wide variety of good games to pick from is of no concern.
