Guitar Hero 5 Expands SD Card Usage

There has been a lot of chatter about Nintendo's lack of storage. With only a small amount of flash memory, it creates a problem to download a lot of content, and attempt to store it all on the Wii. This is where Vicarious Visions comes in. They refused to be hindered, and with their downloadable tracks for Guitar Hero: World Tour, innovated a way to allow content to be streamable from SD cards. They weren't content with just any SD cards however. With the upcoming Guitar Hero 5, Vicarious Visions will continue to innovate, and allow tracks to be played directly from 32 GB SDHC cards as well.

As of now, High-Capacity SD cards are usable as a storage option. If space is tight on the Wii, information such as saves and downloaded content can be backed up onto an SD card of any size, including the 32 GB variety. However, up until Guitar Hero 5 releases, playing games or game content off of the 32 GB SD Card isn't possible, rendering the SD card only usable for back-up storage. With the release of Guitar Hero 5 will also come the ability to stream content from the new larger SD cards, for not only Guitar Hero 5, but also any other games from then on who wish to use the new feature.

Activision estimates that using a 32 GB SDHC card will allow users to store up to 800 songs, which includes not only the actual tracks for the songs, but also all of the animations and notes associated with them. This couldn't come at a better time either, as Guitar Hero 5 plans on adding new features to the store, such as downloading multiple tracks, albums, or track packs. This queue will download each track one after the other, instead of requiring users to download tracks one at a time.

With the new SD card compatibility and shop features included in Guitar Hero 5, previous limitations on downloadable content seem to have been tossed out, and will allow you to download to your hearts content, or until your wallet is empty.

Via IGN

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