DLC limitations mean no Hendrix for Guitar Hero: World Tour

HAHAHAH! Sorry, just heard something funny. Yep, the Wii gets shafted again... anything with Rock Band 2 restricting Wii features yet? Once again, makes me relieved that I caved and bought a 360; I love my Wii, but at this point, mainly just for its exclusives. If it is multiplatform, the Wii gets jipped, and that's what my 360 is for.

Seriously, yes, this does piss me off a bit, but I've sorta gotten used to it. Now Nintendo, start releasing these core games you promised? At least we can expect quality from [most of] those.

What? wait, WHAT???
You gotta be kidding me.

Hendrix was almost the sole reason I still bought this game, and now, weeks after the game's release and weeks after the anouncement of this pack, just now, they come and say we wont be able to get it??

Freaking unbelieavable.

That makes no sense. How could the set up the Wii's infrastructure to only allow single tracks. They messed up royally.

And I can't even buy the game yet! (Its sold out everyway- despite reserving a copy at Best Buy).

I don't get it. Is this Nintendo's fault? Are they trying to alienate us?

And who are the idiots that won't let the songs be sold separately anyway? That's ridiculous. It's not like the 3 songs together tell a story or some crap.

Not surprising really, the size limit for downloads is 43mb at current, and the track packs would exceed that limit.

FYI for the person responsible for content on this site: Jimi was left-handed. The image on this article shows him playing guitar right-handed.

I died a little inside when I first heard about this. And to Matt B. I was so pissed when my "reserved" copy of it from best buy was backordered i canceled it and drove an hour and twenty minutes to the nearest mall to buy it fom any store other than best buy...and when I got there they were the only place with it in stock. So I ended up repurchasing it from them.

So the songs won't be DLC. As long as the "track pack" can be made available as a disc-based version, I don't really care. *fingers crossed*

Still, it's a shame Nintendo still hasn't realized that a hard drive is pretty much necessary for DLC and online content these days.

I'm calling shenanigans, this is just ridiculous

This is old news.... We knew this with the Metallica DLC.

The hits just keep on commin' for multi-platform titles on the Wii. Oh well... glad I wised up, got a PS3 and sold my GH3 copy and guitar for the PS3 counterparts. And now with the RB + GH interoperability, it's win-win. Sorry guys.

I've already invested in Guitar Hero for the Wii so here's hoping the bands I like are fine with singles. Or that someone at Nintendo can make track packs happen.

Yet another reason why I buy these games for my 360 and Nintendo games for my Wii. Seriously I dont see how anyone can like being a Wii only owner. Not flaming cause I love the Wii and play it more then my PS3 but it is a 2nd system compared to my 360.

Well even though this pisses me off too(and kind of ruins getting this game in the future for cheap), do we still get xavier stone? because i like to be him in the other GH series because he is my fav.

Nintendo Wii Fanboy...indeed.

First of all..some clarity:

The *PRIMARY* issue here is the "rights holder agreements" in place; they want more money per sale.

The way the Wii works, dear friends, is the result of people caving into the insane restrictions of DRM. Nintendo's implementation requires a digital sig on each piece of media xferred...to protect it, essentially, from paying customers :)

Likely, to preserve some sort of sanity on the gtunes store, they didn't code a mechanism to bundle and unpack these things or come up with a way to make them compliant with both the rights holder's (primary cause) and Nintendo's "needs" so it could not be done.

It has little to do with not having a hard drive and more to do with how to protect themselves from you, the, again, paying customer, because as well all know, Nintendo's copy protections have worked swimmingly well so far :)

All that said, this does suck a little and has probably killed the franchise on wii in the minds of many people.

I picked up GHWT on Wednesday love it I chose it over Rockband as I believe it has the better drum set, at first I thought I could use the Rockband game on my GHWT drum kit but it did not work when I purchased the Rockband 1 game on the weekend? I have looked in many places on the web and it looks like the wii is the only console with this problem as PS3 and Xbox360 can play either game with either drumkit. If anyone knows a solution eg. A patch or an aftermarket drum kit that will allow you to play either game. I do not have the space for 2 drum kits. I believe the problem with the wii is that it uses the wiimote in the drums and guitar for GHWT and it has a usb plug for the Rockband drums and guitar, please comment if you have any ideas, There will be many wii users hitting this brickwall, I only I could make a patch myself but I know nothing in that sort of way....... (hanging on) Wayne

Just out of curiosity... if I buy the track pack on PS3 or Live, it costs me something like $5.50, right? But if I were to buy all three Hendrix songs on Wii singly, for $2 each... I'm not sure I understand why the rights holder would tell me I can't spend MORE money? And I don't think it's a fair argument to say "Well, this way you force people to get all three songs if they want one or two", because the current strategy suggests they'd rather force people to get zero songs. It's not as if they aren't charted and easy to put *on* Wii. So we know the Wii is capable of DLC, and I'm not buying the money argument because they get more money if I buy them individually, but I don't have any different ideas either.

This is why I like my Xbox 360 more... :]

Wii owner here. After hearing about this I got rid of my GH:WT and seriously... went and bought the Rock Band Special Edition with what I got from that back. The idea I'm figuring is that since the GHIII controllers will work with Rock Band 2... and the disc for it will cost $50... then I'll have a full band's worth of equipment and both Rock Band discs for $150.

Yeah, it sucks that the Les Paul won't work with Rock Band 1 the way it is but at least RB2 will have the full DLC for Rock Band that PS3/360 owners will have.

Thank you, Harmonix, for knowing how to please your customers. Shame on Activision, Metallica, and the rest of them for basically shafting us Wii owners.