by Edgar - 09.04.08
I saw this interview with Vicarious Visions CEO Karthik Bal from Gamedaily that kind of confirms how we will be able to save our Guitar Hero 4 downloads.
GD:The Wii version of GH III plays wonderfully but owners have complained that the game didn’t offer any of the added downloadable perks that the Xbox 360 and PS3 games feature. We’ve heard that World Tour will have downloadable tracks?
KB: That’s right! Guitar Hero World Tour will be the first Wii game to offer downloadable songs through an in-game music store. Players can preview, purchase and download songs using Wii Points and we’ll have new songs available on a regular basis.
GD: With those downloadable packs, will players download that directly to the Wii’s internal memory or have you worked out a way to store those music packs elsewhere?
KB: Players can either download songs to the Wii System Memory or store songs on a SD Card, called the “Rock Archive”. When you want to play songs from the Rock Archive, players can create a custom set list, and then choose a venue and play!
So if this is true, it gives us unlimited storage, since once a SD card is filled, you just get a new one.
Didn’t we know this already?
jam - 09.04.08 10:41 am
I’ve often figured that SD cards would replace the need for a hard drive add-on… if Nintendo would open up access to SD cards (say, from the Wii’s Channel menu), we could leave saved games and stuff like the Opera browser on the Wii’s internal menu, and put all our games on SD cards… I’m sure there would have to be a “swap” file on the Wii, but it would work well.
Ryan - 09.04.08 10:44 am
Yeah, Nintendo should really open support for SD more.
Like running VC games from it among other things.
Edgar - 09.04.08 11:05 am
@Jam - I didn’t!
Edgar - 09.04.08 11:12 am
- me neither!
MAL - 09.04.08 12:29 pm
@Edgar - Yeah, if Nintendo let us play Virtual Console and WiiWare games from SD cards then that would solve so many problems, especially for someone like me with 40+ Virtual Console games. Granted I’d still rather have, say, a 20 gig hard drive so I wouldn’t have to worry about switching SD cards all the time, but still, it would be much better than having to delete and redownload games.
Dopple Boppler - 09.04.08 12:31 pm
I did, for at least a month now
elfman13 - 09.04.08 3:51 pm
yeah the interview is a month old, just slipped under my radar.
Stupid Stealthy interviews…
Edgar - 09.04.08 3:52 pm
“once a SD card is filled, you just get a new one.” Yeah, I never erase a rewritable SD card, I just buy a new one every time I fill one up.
jeff - 09.04.08 4:17 pm
@Jeff
Well probably would want to get a new one if you wanna keep everything on the previous one. Im sure you wouldnt wanna rewrite over songs you’ve paid for.
Spencer - 09.04.08 4:43 pm
And this should mean custom tracks will be very easy
TakaM - 09.04.08 8:29 pm
Guitar Hero World Tour just keeps getting better.
Now if the price could just make some more sense.
Still they seem to be making wise choices.
shadow1w2 - 09.04.08 11:18 pm
Simple solution but not very practical.
Plaidman - 09.05.08 8:55 am
I`m gonna meet the devs next week.
Do you guys have any question you`d like me to ask them?
Edgar - 09.05.08 12:44 pm
Ask them why ‘Since You Been Gone’ by Rainbow hasn’t been in Guitar Hero yet?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYtdW5bD-7Q
It would be truly epic
MasterSystemII - 09.05.08 2:11 pm
I think a 4GB SD card should more then suffice for any and all downloading needs.
I mean I really was impressed by the amount of games which could be stored on the internal memory. I purchased roughly 20 games on top of the channels, with a mixture of NES, SNES and N64 titles.
And that was on the very minuscule internal memory. Seriously if the system had been given a 4GB internal memory that would’ve satisfied a wider range of players. I think the whole 20GB-60GB hard drive situations are a bit excessive unless you truly are relying on your video game to serve as a store house for every form of media a person owns.
The Maverickk - 09.05.08 3:31 pm
@Mav- I thought the wii only supported 2GB?
Edgar - 09.05.08 11:17 pm
cool
joseph - 09.18.08 6:48 pm