Rock Band 2 DLC Coming to Wii 'As Fast As Possible'

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A week after Rock Band 2 arrived on Wii, the multi-instrument music game still has no downloadable tracks in the Wii Shop Channel, despite developer Harmonix's proimise that the Wii release would have 30 downloadable songs at launch.

The missing content is "in the final testing stages," according to a post by community manager Sean Baptiste on the game's offical forum. "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."

Rock Band 2 Wii owners will eventually be able to purchase and download the "entire back catalogue" of Rock Band DLC, which includes hundreds of songs from various artists. Harmonix has yet to confirm pricing for Wii DLC, but it's expected to be in line with the PS3 and Xbox 360, where songs are typically sold for $2 a piece.

Chris Faylor was previously a games journalist creating content at Shacknews.

From The Chatty
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    December 26, 2008 8:37 AM

    How does DLC work on the Wii? Can you only have so many songs on your Wii? How much space can be used for DLC?

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      December 26, 2008 8:41 AM

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        December 26, 2008 8:53 AM

        Those were just stand-alone discs. No installation or transfer required.

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      December 26, 2008 8:42 AM

      The songs can be stored and played right from an SD card.

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        December 26, 2008 10:31 AM

        Hmmm... I wonder what kind of DRM they are using. Because you can be absolutely sure that they WILL use some DRM. Probably an encryption based on the Wii's serial number or something.

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      December 28, 2008 6:07 PM

      I would imagine since the Wii doesnt have an official system for DLC that it would be hardcoded into the game. I'd also imagine you could save to internal memory or the SD card.

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