As some of you may know, when I went on vacation in Seattle, I played a lot of Rock Band on Hersch’s XBox 360. Just yesterday it was officially announced that Rock Band will be coming to the Wii on June 22. Unfortunately, it will lack a lot of the cool features of the next-gen versions, such as online play, downloadable content and customizable characters. The only plus is that there are five tracks exclusive to the Wii. Personally, I would rather have any one of the other missing features than exclusive songs.
It looks like Electronic Arts is blaming the missing features on Nintendo. A Rock Band spokesperson was quoted as saying, "When developing ‘Rock Band’ for the Wii platform, we focused on making the core gameplay experience as solid and enjoyable as possible…Wii’s online capabilities and potential have yet to be fully realized." You know, it’s great that the core gameplay experience will be solid, but I’d like to be able to play online and download new songs. You would think that MTV and Harmonix would like to stick it to Activision and Red Octane by making Rock Band for Wii an out-of-the-box kick-ass experience. Instead, they make it a Guitar-Hero-III-with-drums-and-mic-ho-hum experience. Boo.
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