But Hints at Steam PC Download
This afternoon, Steve Lycett clarified and expanded upon some of the finer points of Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing, and unfortunately for Wii owners, it’s not good news with regard to downloadable content, as is almost the case with PC users.
“Chances are DLC will be limited to 360/PS3,” Lycett said outright under his S0L handle. “Whilst it’s entirely possible to do it elsewhere, the big stumbling block is how you actually make it available.”
Lycett said Sumo Digital would have needed to create an in-game store for DLC for anything to be possible within the Wii, and even then, there’s the matter of storage limits.
“You’re looking at over a 100Mb for something like an extra track and character. Which would soon fill the Wii’s internal memory, meaning you then have write SD card support – which has it’s own set of problems,” Lycett said.
We say it’s not as bad for PC users because while Lycett paints a similar scenario for DLC on the PC, he also said may be available easily through the Steam download service.
“Whilst the game will likely be made available via Steam, and you can offer DLC via the same method – what about disk owners?” Lycett said, comparing the limitations to that of the Wii.
The bottom line–it looks like both Wii and PC owners will be shut out of any DLC offering Sega makes for ASR. We’ll continue to follow developments.
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100 MB for a track!?!
What are these guys putting in them!?!
…well that sucks…
How?
Well if Nintendo can send DLCs to Animal Crossing: City Folk, then Sumo can too :/
@Golden~Hedgy:
Animal Crossing’s DLC is not 100mb(roughly 1/5 of the Wii’s internal memory). Sonic and SEGA’s DLC would be though, making it largely impractical.
Steam, YES.
Can you say-
“WE BLOODY TOLD YOU TOO MANY TIMES ALREADY! Now get back to complaining like you usually do!”
*cries*
can someone please report on that new Sega console, it kinda just appeared out of no where so i wanted to read some info on it o.O
What the fuck is with Sega always giving the Wii the short end of the stick.
Its a “Chances Are” bit. You could probably make a DLC section on the game, but wether or not Sega/Sumo makes an in-game store for Wii and what it will offer is entirely up to them. I’m not complaining…yet.
Should the Wii version see the success rates of other Sonic titles on Wii, we’ll see it on DLC Wii.
@Cryssore:
You don’t seem to understand what’s going on. If you had read the article you would know that the Wii version will probably not get download content because it is difficult and impractical to do so.
Download content on the Wii is impractical because of two things:
1) There’s not enough space. Files that are 100mb+ will fill the Wii’s internal memory very quickly.
2) There’s no store on the Wii shop channel that offers download content to disc based games. Quoting Steve Lycett “On Wii there’s no DLC store as such – so you have to write some form of in-game store, that also safely handles transactions and deals with downloads that may get paused or corrupted.”
So yeah, SEGA is not giving the Wii the short end of the stick. The Wii is just very limited.
@Skai Cyan:
The issue is not about how the Wii version will sell, it’s about how download content is too difficult and impractical to deliver on it in large sizes.
no problem to add DLC to the wii version. Many already do that. it can easily be read from the SD card for those that run out of space. Dedicated channel has been done many times too. Wii is not limited at all in this sense.
I’ve been wondering concerning the pre-order bonus:
Ryo riding his forklift is already in the game in All-Star move form. I don’t see the impossibility of making that playable for the Wii version. It’s there.
I sure hope they’ll eventually make DLC for the Wii version. It’s unfair not to do so. I wouldn’t even mind them reducing the quality even to 64 standards just to make the file size reasonable for the Wii internal memory, as long as the Wii version is getting it.
Heck, there is easily enough space for over a dozen whole N64 games.
I wonder if it’s possible to release what the XBox360 and PS3 got as DLC in a form of a disc or external harddrive or whatever crazy gimmick you can stick in the Wii. The Wii got all sorts of crazy accessories, it makes your head spin, so I say anything is possible.
I say SEGA/Sumo should keep looking for alternatives, consider every possibility to grant the Wii the DLC. The Wii deserves it just as much as the XBox 360 and PS3.
I think they should make at least 1 character for DLC. Maybe a Wii-exclusive character like Pikachu or something