No More RBN dlc for the Wii! Discuss!

[skyttskytt]

Okay, what is DLC and if you want a certain band or genre of music how do you request it?

DLC = downloadable content, the additional songs you can purchase that don't come on the disc.

The RBN (Rock Band Network) is 3rd-party created songs by either the bands/music labels that own the songs, or companies hired by the bands/music labels to do so. This is the part that is being "taken away" from the Wii, since it wasn't financially viable for Harmonix to continue spending money and time making them available to the Wii users as hardly any purchases were being made.

Regular DLC made by Harmonix will continue to be released for the Wii.

If you wish to request songs, you can go to www.rockband.com/request or the Ultimate Setlist section of the forums.

[nicko68]

I'm not sure if the statement was designed to incite a console war or not, but we really can't discuss potential reasons why one system may not receive the same treatment as another without mentioning its weaknesses or drawbacks.

But it sounds like a business decision based on the lack of sales rather than a technical issue since, as we saw, the Wii was able to get RBN tracks. Maybe it cost more per track to get them ported and available for download to the Wii than it did to the PS3, but it's about sales, not technology.

[Nick360]

17 whole songs? I can't imagine why Harmonix is withdrawing support then.

EDIT: Lest I be accused of throwing stones in glass houses, I hereby reference my DLCQuickplay profile to notate that I have to date purchased 193 of 195 overall PS3 RBN tracks.

http://dlcquickplay.com/user/icemage

You are one hardcore RBN fan. Out of the total 159 songs available on Wii, I was only happy enough to buy 20 of them. I don't like having too much unknown songs in my collection, the hit music is where it's at mainly for me.

[Yellig]

RBN was an awesome idea that unfortunately didn't pan out as well as some of us hoped.

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Instead we were deluged with christian rock, christian metal and occasionally just plain Metal.

I know about the Christian metal, but a deluge of Christian rock? If someone can point me to said deluge, I have some tracks I'd like to download.

[J-Bar-C]

RBN is crap anyways. Of my 498 songs 5 are from RBN. Even if they caned it on PS3 no big loss.

[ThatAuthoringGroup]

RBN is crap anyways. Of my 498 songs 5 are from RBN. Even if they caned it on PS3 no big loss.

No one has ever been more wrong in the entire history of the internet.

Congratulations.

[Muhveli]

It's not that it can't, it's that Nintendo didn't want the Wii to be a home media device, just a game machine. Blame Nintendo's shortsightedness and stubbornness, not the Wii's technical abilities for this one.

Yep, seeing as the old xbox and Wii have similar CPU power and the old xbox played DVD's fine, the Wii could too. If it featured a DVD drive.

[raynebc]

You can install Homebrew on the Wii to play DVDs.

[Muhveli]

You can install Homebrew on the Wii to play DVDs.

Oh! I stand corrected.

[Bront20]

You can install Homebrew on the Wii to play DVDs.

Oh! I stand corrected.

It's not exactly a supported feature