Harmonix Wants a Hard Drive on the Wii

Rock Band

This comes as no surprise, but the reason that Rock Band sucks so much on the Nintendo Wii comes down to the fact that the Wii doesn’t have a hard drive. Harmonix wants people to know this too. Rob Kay, design director at Harmonix has stated about downloadable content, “The whole problem is there’s nowhere to store it” and that “If the platform could do it, we’d jump on it.”

So will the out-of-touch idiots at Nintendo listen to this advice and get with the times or will they shrug it off as something that they believe isn’t wanted by gamers. Probably the latter for now, but I sure wish Nintendo would think about this one already. Nobody likes storing stuff on little SD cards.

Harmonix Offering Stand-Alone Rock Band Peripherals Finally

Drums and Guitars

Harmonix and MTV games have made an announcement that is sure to make every Rock Band owner happy. They’ve announced that individual Rock Band instruments will finally be available in the U.S. starting on February 12th. The drum kit will be priced at $79.99. A wireless Fender Stratocaster guitar controller will cost $59.99, but for some stupid reason, won’t be made available until April 1st. The instrument that everyone really wants, comes last. Oh well, at least it’s coming.

Rock Band Holiday Update

A Beautiful Lie, 30 Seconds to Mars Cover

Harmonix and MTV Games have provided some special holiday content for you today. There are five new tracks available and as a holiday gift, there are discounted at a price of $0.99 each. You can get these right now if you are an Xbox 360 owner, but you have to wait until next week if you are a PS3 owner because Sony’s offices are closed for the holidays. That sucks. Check out the songs below.

  • “Attack” – 30 Seconds To Mars
  • “The Kill” – 30 Seconds To Mars
  • “Dirty Little Secret” – All-American Rejects
  • “Move Along” – All-American Rejects
  • “Song With A Mission” – The Sounds