SanDisk To Launch Rock Band 2 Branded SD Cards

By Joel Lutherlutherjw. Thursday, January 8, 2009 2:09:32 AM

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In a move that is sure to confuse buyers more than they already are, SanDisk today annouced plans to launch a 2GB Rock Band 2 branded storage card, which will launch this spring and retail for $12.99. According to SanDisk, 2GB is enough storage to hold up to 75 downloadable songs.

Now, here lies the problem: any SD card will work on the Wii, despite whatever logo is printed on the decal. A standard SanDisk 2GB card retails for $6.99, while the Rock Band branded will retail for $12.99, and a card with a Wii logo retails for $33.99. ...what? Does anyone seriously pay $27 extra for a logo? Is it that important to you? Let us know in comments.

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Comments

MatthewHallucin0gen Thursday, January 8, 2009 2:12:06 AM

Lol it doesnt matter to me...

Charles SchlossChas4 Thursday, January 8, 2009 2:48:30 AM

The one I have in my Wii is 2gb and is under $8 USA

http://microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0250133

.edDotEd Thursday, January 8, 2009 3:21:42 AM

2gb from whatever stack of sd cards i wasnt using. free.
i still like that wii uses sd over locked in proprietary memory. and when acess to that memory is opened up for additional wii content without having to move items manually, it will really help those worrying about the 512MB internal.

JasonLlamaBoy Thursday, January 8, 2009 2:42:25 PM

My AC/Brawl one is 2GB and cost... $7.

ωєввѕтαя webbstar Thursday, January 8, 2009 7:38:52 PM

lol branded just so it will sell lol
i bet alot of people ill still get it. like parents going out to buy rock band two have no idea about these sorta things and the shop will ask would they like to purches a sd card so you can download stuff on to it lol.
you can like get 8gb sd cards for like £8.99 now

Charles SchlossChas4 Friday, January 9, 2009 4:30:32 AM

webbstar the Wii only supports up to 2gb at the moment

ωєввѕтαя webbstar Friday, January 9, 2009 6:46:02 PM

yea i know i was just making my point on how cheap SD cards are now

Charles SchlossChas4 Friday, January 9, 2009 7:55:27 PM

It is crazy at the Micro center there 8gb is only $15 to think you could back up very old computers on an sd card

Giovanni MedinaWiidark Sunday, January 11, 2009 2:00:54 AM

sandisk and their crazy schemes...

Charles SchlossChas4 Sunday, January 11, 2009 2:11:32 AM

how much do you think they will make?

seaempty Monday, January 12, 2009 6:59:59 PM

They should sweeten the deal and include a selection of downloaded songs on it.

JasonLlamaBoy Tuesday, January 13, 2009 2:27:13 AM

But not the '20 bonus songs with disk'. I haven't heard of almost all those bands.

Captain FalconTriforceOfAnnoyingness Wednesday, January 21, 2009 12:14:06 AM

this is OBVIOUSLY targeting n00b parents. X_X'

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