PSA: Rock Band 2 SD card not required for Wii DLC

The more you know...

When you get right down to it, the people this is aimed at are the less than techsavvy casual gamers who don't "get" how the Wii works with SD cards.

So when casual gamer customer A is looking for "those card thinigies for the Wii" they see this and KNOW that the product will work in their console.

It's a bummer there's a premium on the branding, but hey...Apple does that all the time.

Actually, there was a person who got SDHC (over 2 GB) cards to work on the Wii. It ended up making transfer times from the card to the system much much faster for some reason. Not sure if that disproves your theory, but thought I should point it out.

It doesn't disprove his theory...
If a hacker can do it, it proves that that is a very skilled hacker, but Nintendo still ships wiis without SDHC support.

It probably has to deal with the fact that you have to pay some sort of licensing fee. Even if that is tiny - the thought of making it a update to the system would mean that they are once again spending money for Geeks and Otakus when most of their consoles will never use it.

Least that is how I figure they would look at it.

My Wii is overstuffed with games that I've had to start "Putting stuff in the fridge" and it is getting annoying - especially at the amazingly craptacular transfer speeds.

Transfer speeds were improved drastically with the last firmware update, and you're right, it is a licensing issue. You have to pay more for SDHC support, but the fun thing is, Nintendo HAS paid for the license by now, as the tech is incorporated in the DSi

Seriously. Especially since 8gb cards can be had for under $20. Scratch that, there is one on Newegg right now for the same price as the 2gb above.

Is SDHC a patchable option?

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Ur right... as much as the branding is unnecessary, the price is still acceptable. The bad thing is that the Wii can't support any more than 2GB. I mean come on!

"as much as the branding is unnecessary, the price is still acceptable"

And paying $250 for a wii IS?

I think it is par for the course.

Just like Apple charging $1 a song when almost any other alternative is $15 dollars a month for UNLIMITED songs.

Face it, most of the people of this planet are mindless sheep that just go along with the other Lemmings on any and every decision.

And paying $250 for a wii IS too right?

It is just par for the course.

Thank you Joystiq again for your wii-like editing for posts.

oh dear, don't compare them to the Wii

You know that's one way to really get under their skin...

About 75 songs (25-40MB per song).

It's the principle of the matter. It's simply retarded that it's not there. Nintendo does some stupid shit to limit their consoles and it has fucked them in the past.
Now they hit a home run as long as they can keep their shit together, but they seem to be sitting on their haunches riding the shitty software tidal wave that will eventually crash.
I'm sure they are just being lazy, cheap motherfuckers going "eh, it's good enough, no need to add something that will increase licensing fees" and this is a simple patch that could be released... hell, even sold as software.

Whoops, that was supposed to be a reply to seth below.

Umm, the wii does have voice chat now. I got Wii speak and it works quite well. Unfortunately, I, like the average person nowadays who plays games, don't have much use for it. When I play games with others, they are at my house and they are my friends. They aren't just random strangers who I really don't want to talk to anyway.

It also has DLC. but who cares. Again, the average person who owns a gaming system probably will not be interested in that. Again, only something that niche core gamers care about.

As for movies, well I have a blockbuster online account already, so I don't need my game system for that at all.

And no, we don't have demos. boo hoo. But I can still do research on games that I'm interested in buying. So far I've been satisfied with every game that I buy. And I've bought quite a lot of them.

As for quality control - yes, there is a lot of shovelware on the wii. But you don't have to buy it. Also, the lower cost to develop a wii game results in more developers taking a shot. Some miss the mark completely. But some of those games come out fantastic and are really unique. The high cost of developing for the PS3 and 360 result in more cautious decisions and more of the same with prettied up graphics and NEW GUNS. WOW!!!

I personally thought about buying a PS3 this winter, but when I looked into the games I really wasn't all that impressed. The great majority of the games are just clones of one another with different dressing. Why do I need 18 different first person shooters when the game play mechanic is basically the same on all of them? Honestly, the only game that excites me is little big planet. But I'm not going to pay upwards of $500 to play that game.

You, Microsoft and Sony are failing to see things from the perspective of the average consumer. Sure all that stuff that 360 and PS3 have that wii doesn't is appealing to hard core niche gamers. But people like myself who don't spend endless amounts of time on electronic entertainment and who aren't as technologically savvy have almost no need for it. What we want is an occasional escape from our hectic lives. The wii provides exactly what we need and nothing that we don't.

There is a greater market for what the wii is selling. And in the end that makes it the more widely adopted system, and ultimately the winner.

So go ahead and complain about what the wii lacks. I personally don't care. And I think the millions of consumers who chose the wii over the PS3 and 360 probably agree.