RedOctane president hints at Guitar Hero III online while denying it

Kai Huang is either working hard to satisfy Wii gamers, or just kind of mean. In an interview with Pro-G, when he was asked about the possibility of online features in the Wii version of Guitar Hero III, he gave an answer that managed to be both negative and hopeful."There won't be online initially for the Wii, but we are working with Nintendo to see how we can get those features in."

This opens the door to all kinds of possibilities, some of them exciting. Maybe the game will be patched with online play when Activision and RedOctane get it figured out! Maybe the addition of online play via update will portend more updates, such as downloadable music through the Wii Shop!

To take a more cynical view, it seems likely that we'll have to pay for the online capability as a sort of "expansion pack." To take an even more cynical view, we may not want to get our hopes up about online Guitar Hero on the Wii. We're trying not to occupy the cynical extremes, ourselves, because we'd be very happy about online play or content downloads.

[Via GoNintendo]