Rock Band 2 DLC Details, No sequel for 2009

By Jorge Ba-oh 12.01.2009 9

Rock Band 2 DLC Details, No sequel for 2009 on Nintendo gaming news, videos and discussion

Harmonix recently made a few announcements at this year's CES, including that Rock Band 3 won't be arriving this year.

The main project for the studio this year will be the previously announced music title featuring songs from the Beetles. As for here and now, Harmonix also detailed the DLC features available for the Wii edition of Rock Band 2.

Since Nintendo has skimped out on a hard-drive, an SD card is the ideal route for storing those downloaded tunes. A single track averages out at around 24MB, and so the maximum sized card for Wii (2GB) can take on approximately 75. There are workarounds to access 4GB varieties, but on average Wii owners are looking at grabbing around 70-80 tunes per card.

The downloadable content is in the final testing stages and Harmonix is working as fast as possible to deliver the 20 free bonus songs for Rock Band 2, plus an additional 30 songs from the Rock Band DLC Catalog to fans as early in 2009 as possible.

Box art for Rock Band 2
Developer

Harmonix

Publisher

MTV Games

Genre

Rhythm

Players

2

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European release date Out now   North America release date Out now   Japan release date None   Australian release date Out now   

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JoshSL is offline. JoshSL 12.01.2009#1

With any luck, Nintendo will sort out the harddrive problem in the next few months like they said at their conference last year, and maybe allow support for bigger SD Cards.

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Kangaroo_Kid is offline. Kangaroo_Kid 12.01.2009#2

Bit of a shame since the Rock Band 2 track list absolutely sucked compared to the first game.

 
Laurelin is offline. Laurelin 12.01.2009#3

It sucked? Okay, I get the first game... *lol*

For me with Guiter Hero WT it's absolutely acceptable to store my songs on SD-card. Great, that Harmonix will give us the same possibility. It's the best choice for the moment.
Great, that they deliver us the same DLC. I hope GHWT will give uus Wii-users DLC from past titles. I may want to play a lot of titles from GH 1 and 2 on Wii. And when you are up to it, make a Queen-GH, too. I played Killer Queen till my fingers bled (sorry, couldn't resist to deliver this line).

Since I heard RB 1 and 2 are compatible with my GH-instruments, it's cool to buy them.


And it's okay not to throw out a Rock Band every year. Rather make a great next game with more time. Annual games from a series is what almost killed EA. Take your time...

I find your lack of faith disturbing!
 
jb is offline. jb 12.01.2009#4

Since I heard RB 1 and 2 are compatible with my GH-instruments, it's cool to buy them.

RB2 is compatible with GH guitars, but i'm pretty sure RB 1 and the rest of the instruments aren't.

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Wolvesgod is offline. Wolvesgod 12.01.2009#5

Wow they are finally treating the wii has a Next gen console but o well Nintendo did do something huge with the Wii h311 look at how much was sold.

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TAG is offline. TAG 13.01.2009#6

It\'s about time they got some downloadable content running.


And I\'m sorry, but it\'s killing me. It\'s \"The Beatles.\" Smilie

( Edited 13.01.2009 00:09 by TAG )

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Keven is offline. Keven 13.01.2009#7

Kangaroo_Kid said:
Bit of a shame since the Rock Band 2 track list absolutely sucked compared to the first game.

Couldn't agree more! Smilie


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Kangaroo_Kid is offline. Kangaroo_Kid 13.01.2009#8

jb said:
Since I heard RB 1 and 2 are compatible with my GH-instruments, it's cool to buy them.

RB2 is compatible with GH guitars, but i'm pretty sure RB 1 and the rest of the instruments aren't.

I'm almost certain RB1 is compatible as well. On 360 at least.

 
Laurelin is offline. Laurelin 13.01.2009#9

I'm almost certain RB1 is compatible as well. On 360 at least.

I'm Wii only, sorry. I own the big instrument's pack of WT and the Guitar from GH III. I will not buy another.
And GH1 isn't compatible... Great, just great!
GH 2 has a crappy playlist? even more great! *grumble*

Can someone clarify on Wi? That would be most kind. Smilie

I find your lack of faith disturbing!
 

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