Activision explains lack of Guitar Hero track packs on Wii
Monday, November 17th, 2008 at 3:27pm by JakeÂ
The weekly Activison press releases concerning new downloadable content for Guitar Hero World Tour have always confused Wii owners with platform DLC availability. Track packs consisting of 2-3 songs are available on both the 360 and PS3 platforms, but strangely not on the Wii. Wii World Tour music buyers must purchase singles without the convenient (and sometimes cheaper) solution. Nintendo World Report recently received some feed back on the matter…
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Due to technical or licensing restrictions, the DLC offerings will not be the same for every console platform. For example, certain artists prefer to keep the integrity of the track pack rather than releasing singles and the Wii’s infrastructure only allows us the ability to release single songs as DLC.
We are very excited to be the first third-party publisher to bring a library of playable DLC songs to the Nintendo Wii platform. Vicarious Visions has pioneered with Nintendo a seamless way to download, store and access songs via SD Card. The development team is committed to offering Wii fans worldwide as much variety of DLC as possible on a regular basis.
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I suppose that’s a valid exuse, but couldn’t this of been built into the Wii version before the ship date?