For the uninitiated, unless you're speaking about a particularly fast, reliable or high-capacity piece of flash memory, an SD card is an SD card -- and at present, the only thing that sets SanDisk's $13, 2GB "Rock Band 2" SD card (at right) aside from your run-of-the-mill camera fodder is some spiffy Rock Band branding.
But after bumping into SanDisk director of product marketing Chris Moore, we decided that this small square of plastic has a brief spot on GameCyte. Why? Partly because he didn't try to tell us that the card was magically more potent than anything other card we might find lying around... and partly because when we asked him whether some actual Rock Band songs might be included, he said "We've talked about it."
Probing further, GameCyte wasn't able to uncover any specific plans... but Moore told us that the company had both considered including songs on the SD card itself; or including special download codes for the songs inside the card's packaging.
But hey, even if SanDisk falls far short of providing gamers with extra content, it's still a useful SD card -- far more useful for the Nintendo Wii than would be the incompatible 4GB SDHC card one might accidentally procure without being guided by that Rock Band label.
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