I was really holding out for this announcement so that I'd have a reason not to get Guitar Hero 3. Since the delay has been so long Wii had better get some of the DLC of the past few months PREINSTALLED.

Sure, Jukebox Hero is an awesome song, I just don't wanna pay extra for it. Or wait 9 months until Nintendo has a viable 3rd party online format set up.

RRRansom

@Chucklestyle: They didn't release any details besides that it's coming.

Lemming To The Sea

@MidnightScott17: I get bored of GH3, too.

Not too much of a fan of Ouendan, though.

Lemming To The Sea

Link plz?

It would also be nice to know if it's going to be a port of the ps2 version or the 360 version, and if/how it will handle dlc.

Chucklestyle

I suppose if you only have a Wii waiting for this is wise.

Len Bias Cocaine Surplus

@Kirbytheslayer: Thinks AAA is a great term:

I've got a bad feeling that it'll be the case ... But if it's not, it will be a guaranteed buy for me !

Shteve

@Green-clad Gamer Dude:

Rock Band all the way.

As soon as I picked up Rock Band, the day it came out, I never wanted to play GH3 again. Got rid of GH3 since then.

EnigmaNemesis

@Lemming To The Sea:
I got bored of Guitar Hero III even by myself. Guess I just like Ouendan too much ;o

MidnightScott17

Hmm, so to buy GH3 on the Wii now that the disks have been fixed, or wait for Rock Band?

Green-clad Gamer Dude

I have never owned a Guitar Hero or Rock Band game (since I don't own a PS or the 360), and decided to skip over GH III for the Wii for Rock Band...I'm glad it's coming.

reddevil

Okay now I need a date, confirmation that the ION will be available for the Wii and the same DLC. I am very happy about this, but these questions worry me.

I think the GH3 guitar I have is the best so I want to get Rock Band on the Wii. Yet the ION drum kit and DLC make me think 360 is the way to go.

I cannot afford the 360 and Rock Band right now.

majsheppard

*crossesfingers*
Here's to hoping that its compatible with the GH3 Les Paul. After playing Rock Band a friend's house, I have to say I'm not a fan of the Strat's strum bar. While quieter, it doesn't feel responsive enough for me.

TOPolk

Is there a link to the confirmation?

Torgen thinks AAA means "Costs $60"

Maybe Europe will get Rock Band on the Wii in 2009 then...

Samos42

I'm just wondering if the Wii version of Rock Band will have the fully-featured version (360, PS3) or the inferior PS2 version.

sonjool

@NeoAkira: Easy choice. Rock Band. GH3 blows.

mindinrewind

Ugh, why?

Rock Band's DLC is actually... desirable.

Moonshadow101

@MidnightScott17: The game is still very fun single player, unlike many "party" games.

Lemming To The Sea

Everyone should enjoy the awesomeness of this game. Even self centered allegiance whores.

The game is just that good!

EnigmaNemesis

@Luke Plunkett: How mature of you.

Lemming To The Sea

I don't really care, no one to play with anyway =s

MidnightScott17

Hopefully, in the future, Wii owners won't have to wait a few months after the official release of each game to actually get it - not that I'm complainin' or nuthin'.

phinehas

Sounds good, now all the people that went crazy and spent 2X retail on the Wii at christmas can go out and buy a $200 on a game. Oh to have money to spend on stuff that will be woth half as much in a year....

Sinnbox

@NeoAkira: They're both good games, but given how the Wii remote works with GH3 I'm not sure Rock Band is going to do anything similar - so there's no saying that the GH3 controller will work with Rock Band, if that influences you at all.

Saxboy

Finally, I've been waintin for a "Wii will rock you" pun in the posts for a while now, so where is it?

carlosrodas

I'm shocked. They'd honestly be foolish not to put it on Wii.

Ollivander

@Luke Plunkett:
Why?

Superstar90 lieks mudkipz

Crap, i just sent this news to Kotaku. I finish sending the email and refresh the page and its already posted. too little too late i guess :-(

youngmike99

FUCK

THIS

Luke Plunkett

I totally saw this coming. Put your product out on more platforms = more money.

HykCraft

Eh, I got sick of waiting for a Wii version so I bought a 360. Yay!

lolToasty: Hates his username

Took them long enough to announce it. Although it doesn't matter to me, I already have it on 360.

Madnoir

YES! Although I'm on the fence between buying Rock Band or GH3, so I'll have to figure that out by the time this comes out.

NeoAkira

@Kirbytheslayer: Thinks AAA is a great term: it was? that sucks.

bad enough to be cut off from all the DLC, though i wonder if EA's interested in selling separate discs of it? i mean, once the wii has a HDD or something.

still, its cool to see more people get a chance at an awesome game.

TheIrishNinja

EA is gonna delay Rock Band in Europe just like every other game they make or publish in eveyr corner of the world.

Kenaue

I'm sure no one saw that coming.
If only there was a clue of some kind...

Erwin

Will it be stripped of world tour mode and character creation like the Ps2 version?

Really. this is a real question.

Kirbytheslayer: Thinks AAA is a great term

@mindinrewind: amen

geoffcbassett

@Moonshadow101:

i love Rock Band's DLC. I just downloaded "Wonderwall" and "all the small things" today.

they've got a pretty good variety of songs to choose from, which is nice. now please, can we get some old Green Day on there?

presto117

@Saxboy: Wireless Strat is $10 less than the Les Paul. So, the Rock Band wireless guitar is actually cheaper.

Rock Band is awesome. Guitar Hero II is awesome. Guitar Hero 3 isn't awesome. It's merely OK.

mindinrewind

@Luke Plunkett: Indeed!
Our little backwards country means we'll never get to rock out...

jonny_foreigner

@TalKeaton: Well, that is cool with me since that will still make them wireless (like the GH III guitar, it uses the Wiimote and it does it prefectly)

Though that means is going to be one hell of an expensive game if EVERY control uses a wiimote...for someone that only has 2 or even 1 wiimote O_O Yeah, I don't think they'll go that route...I hope.

daknight

I would like it more if DLC was inluded on-disk instead of having to be bought over Wii-fi. Just seems easier to me.

vibe

@Saxboy: I don't hate GH3 really I don't, I think it's a good game for what it is, single player trying to beat your best high score. Something akin to the 80's arcades which I love. I will say though I think I would give Neversoft a B- on their first outing with it. I get a little bit of slow down with my star power and the difficulty curve at the end went from 0-60 faster than a Gizmondo executive.

Pornosaur

Awesome, But Im planning to buy a Ps3 so I may get it for the Ps3 due to the fact that it has downloadeble content and the Wii version may be like the Ps2 version, I don't know now :(

Soyerz

Why all the GH3 hate? It's a good game minus some songs that aren't particularly fun, which is just the same as Rock Band. They're both good games. I'd especially recommend getting it if the GH controllers work with RB, as a Rock Band Guitar costs as much as freaking GH3 does with a guitar... almost.

Saxboy

@eggmanimn,

I hope you're right.

subnet6

SSBB has given me hope for DLC on Rock Band Wii. You can save extras to an SD card and grab from it! Doesn't really need a HDD with functionality like that!
[www.smashbros.com]

mjpm

@daknight: Meh. Everything'll probably hook up to Wii remotes.

TalKeaton

@lolToasty: Hates his username: Me too. Expect I still have yet to buy Rock Band. Either way, the 360 Rock Band's online is obviously the best way to go, screw the Wii version and its lateness.

sanyo

ive been waiting for this day for so long.....*sniff* and it has finally come?

YAAAAAAYYYY! LET US REJOYCE WII OWNERS! WE DONT SUCK AS MUCH AS WE USED T0!!!

skelator316

PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD LET THE CONTROLS BE WIRELESS!!!

You can't imagine the tangle mess of cables we have to connect and people have to avoid when we are playing Rock Band in my friends house...that is my main concern in all honesty, that the controls are all wireless and not connected via USB.

Then I can worry about DLC and still waiting for the promise that GH III would have them after 'new years'...still waiting :(

daknight

Woohoo, Wii version! I hope the GH3 controller will be compatible ...

kupoporo

Wii + DLC + Online= DOES NOT COMPUTE!!! *Explodes*

White-Sharingan

As I remember it from interviews, Harmonix didn't want to put Rock Band on the Wii until they had found a way to do downloadable content.

I'm thinking they have.

EggmaniMN

@EnigmaNemesis: Agreed, I haven't touched GH III since Rock Band has been released, although I have picked up the Red Octane controller. I'm in the can't stand the Rock Band guitar camp.

Pornosaur

@Kirbytheslayer: Thinks AAA is a great term: That would be my biggest concern. If, however, Activision wasn't blowing smoke about the whole downloadable content thing for GH3 on the Wii, I doubt EA would forfit all that potential profit solely to them and they'd at least come out with a decent version.

Ampillion : Now with 50% more LJ gaming blog.

Wii version is going to have character creation unfortunately it will be rocking out with your Mii's. Rock Band with out the DLC TLC seems kind of pointless to me.

Pornosaur

I'm praying this means that the DLC content will be on Wii, hell even just the songs up to this point pre-installed will be fine, but I doubt it.

geoffcbassett

Any idea when Europe'll be getting the Wii version?

This is good news for European PS3/360 owners, or for American Wii owners. But I'm a European Wii owner (for now), so I'm feeling a little non-plussed by this otherwise fantastic news.

Thinker

@Kirbytheslayer: Thinks AAA is a great term: Yeah, that's my big question, too. I'd have already bought the PS2 version if not for that.

Roto13

Shweet. As long as it's not TOO downgraded from the 360/PS3 version, I'm in.

TalKeaton

@Luke Plunkett: You read my Mind, Mr. Plunkett...
Release Date in Summer?
W T F? Seriously! WTF EA? A few months delayed, because of logistics? Granted. Thats ok. BUT HALF A YEAR?!?!?
I HATE you, EA! I really do.
Oh, you are going to get a hate mail, EA-Germany!!!

tylerstyle

Rock Band for Wii? But Rock Band is for hardcore gaymers!

Sintariot

Any idea about the Asian release date? Sitting in Japan and wanting to get RockBand might turn me into a PS3 user soon... :(

My feeling is that they will delay that even beyond the european release date. My guess is that they simply can't produce enough controllers - which is a shame.

develin

@presto117:

Green Day is currently under evaluation by Harmonix I believe. More Beastie Boys songs are as well.

There are a lot of lists floating around the music game community of a Red Hot Chili Peppers pack in a few weeks, some stuff by Queen, an ACDC song, Powerman 5000, and a LOT of other stuff.

And from what I can gather, Who's Next is supposed to show up March 11th for 1200 MS Points.

EggmaniMN

Rock Band
-
Downloadable "Who's Next"
=
No Interest

87th

sweet! I don't know for sure if I'd spend the money, but awesome all the same. However, a word of caution to this tale. Nintendo, please don't allow them to make the 'drumsticks' a pair of wiimotes. We can have that as an option (maybe to save $60 on the drums) but I can't imagine it working very well.

Man- I *really* hope that when they do this, you'll be able to download songs for it. I don't like paying more $ for more songs (couldn't they have included more to start with?) but if they didn't I'd feel cheated :P

sliverstorm

I'm not sure how this takes so long to be released in dear old Europe but hey atleast now we have a time frame to save for Rockband which will no doubt be over priced here in the UK.

Crome

what the hell took so long in the first place? now i'm pissed because I couldn't wait so I got it for the ps2...

nissan288

Another potential 3-month wait?

VERY NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Pedro is unhappy with treatment of workers in Old Country!

LoopyChew

@tylerstyle: Yeah, my RAGE-Meter just went up to OVER 9.000!

tylerstyle

@Crome: They do in store, or at the very least in Yorkshire

mysteryboy2k

Game UK don't offer Preorders on Rockband they don't even list the game last time I checked.

Crome

I hope this is wrong. I have a Game UK preorder sitting on my shelf for 14th March. To be honest, I don't mind delays. Not having the game is better than having the it and no working peripherals. Sitting there. Silently mocking.

mysteryboy2k

I honest to god knew they were going to release it for wii even before they released it for PS2.

I WIN!

fastball611

There's little to no reason why there couldn't be downloadable content on the Wii. I have a 4GB memory stick in my Wii and if the entirety of the ps2 version can fit on a CD then 4GB should be more than enough for a couple extra songs. Cutting the world tour or the DLC would keep my from buying the Wii version. I'll just stick to playing my friend's version of the game. This is me voting with my wallet. I'm tired of crippled PS2 ports.

Cerif27

April at the earliest? That's messed up. I sure hope we have some /really/ stable controllers or I'm going to be more than a little annoyed.

As for pre-orders in the UK, you can do so at a bunch of places including Shopto.com, where it's going for (I kid you not), £150 (so about $300).

zoz

Q2? Oh man. ><

shinryoma