Cambridge, Mass. – February 24th, 2012 – Harmonix today announced that more tracks from Huey Lewis and the News are headed to the Rock Band™ Music Store of downloadable content for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system and Wii™.
Rock Band provides the deepest and best selection of artists, songs and albums through the Rock Band music platform, which features more than 900 artists and more than 3,000* tracks via disc and download purchase (complete list of tracks atwww.rockband.com/songs). Rock Band’s gigantic music library dwarfs that of any other rhythm video game on the market. More than 100 million songs have been sold through the Rock Band Music Store since its launch on Nov. 20, 2007.
Rock Band DLC Additions for Xbox 360, PlayStation®3 system and Wii™
As was the case with the escapeVektor releases on WiiWare, the 3DS version will be downloadable. Nnooo said they’ll combine the chapters from the Wii Shop Channel and place the package on the eShop rather than store shelves.
The studio also stated that they are finished adding new escapeVektor content to the Wii Shop Channel.
A company representative said:
“We’re moving the whole escapeVektor story across to the Nintendo 3DS & PlayStation Vita so there won’t be any more chapters released on WiiWare. The 3DS/Vita versions will be digital downloads.”
Square Enix is working on a second demo for Bravely Default: Flying Fairy. It will be available sometime soon in Japan.
It isn’t entirely clear what will be included in the download. However, Japanese magazine Jump refers to the demo as “Demo + AR Vol.1 – Crystal Maiden Volume”, so you can probably expect more augmented reality action and gameplay with the 17-year-old Crystal Maiden Anies.
The boxart for Fire Emblem: Awakening is attached above. What do you guys think about it?
Famicom
Double Dragon II: The Revenge – 500 points
Neo Geo
Soccer Brawl – 900 points
The Last Blade – 900 points
Virtual Console Arcade
Renegade – 800 points
Michael Pachter had some not-so-nice things to say about Nintendo recently. The Wedbush analyst was speaking at the Ayzenberg A-List Summit 2012 event to discuss the impact of social landscape on gaming.
At the end of his presentation, Pachter fielded some questions about Nintendo.
First, Pachter spoke about Nintendo being “in disarray” and commented on how he feels that the company has “completely blown Wii U by not telling people what the price is going to be.”
“I think Nintendo is in disarray. I think they’ve completely blown the Wii U by not telling people what the price is going to be. It’s going to launch at $249 because it has to. I think they’re dead anyway because Xbox with Kinect will be priced below that by the time they launch. …[the] Wii was a bubble and that the Wii bubble has burst.”
Pachter then went on to say that Wii owners have moved on to social titles like FarmVille and that these games, along with tablet/smartphone software, have killed the console. He feels these games will lead to the death of Nintendo handhelds as well.
It wasn’t all doom and gloom, though. Pachter complimented Nintendo for their success with Wii through their use of the Blue Ocean strategy which has made gaming a more mainstream activity today.
