First Lips DLC goes live today Comments by Tom Bramwell

Can you mute the original singer's voice? That is the real question.

0.99p on Ps3 all tracks except packs, I hate MS so much for been so greedy. I have also read the price is dependent on the song as well:(

unsure if I will get this now

They're rubbish songs too!

shite songs, extortionately priced. I'll pass thanks. I had high hopes for lips, having had some great times with singstar in the past. M$ could really fuck this one up if they arent careful.

"We shall see and take a more considered look once things have matured a bit."

You better! After your wholly misleading preview from the other week!

I think we can say they have fucked this up, they need to patch the game fast with alot of game changing content and sort the prices out and song list

I think we can say they have fucked this up, they need to patch the game fast with alot of game changing content and sort the prices out and song list

Christ, £1.36? No thanks.

Thanks MS for putting the price pressure on SingStar... :(

It's been suggested that the reason Singstar gets hardly any decent tracks on the SingStore is because of the low price of tracks. Universal are apparently one company who refuse to go on Singstar because of the pricing. If MS charging £1.36 means that they can score bigger artists and tracks then I'll happily pay for better content. Although, some of the initial content is poor for the price I admit. Elvis and others Xmas music is on the 5th December too apparently.

Presumably it's the Muzik biz who are screwing us over. MS are only passing on a certain price plus their cut.

The big record companies hate the fact they have to sell tracks on iTunes at 99p even though they're distribution costs are zero and the tracks themselves are substandard quality to what you actually get on CD.
They must be rubbing their greedy hands at all the dosh coming in from Guitar Hero,Rockband, Singstar & now Lips.

Unfortunately it'll be free champagne & coke for everyone at the Brit awards next year methinks.

I was hoping the whole muzik biz would implode taking Simon Cowell, X-factor Westlife and the rest of the shite Boy/Girl bands with them, so that decent artists could make some money from their music.

Anyway, Lips is fast sinking into a sewage pit of mediocrity of it's own making.

Does the FX rate of the Pound to the Dollar affect the exchange rate between MS points and pounds? In which case its Gordon Brown/Alastair Darlings fault! Screw decent mortgage rates, we want cheap downloads!

"The big record companies hate the fact they have to sell tracks on iTunes at 99p even though they're distribution costs are zero and the tracks themselves are substandard quality to what you actually get on CD"

Really? Not sure where you got that idea from. Most record companies are quite happy selling their wares on iTunes, as they have started making money again. And what have distribution costs and audio quality got to do with anything?

Do you mean record companies would prefer to sell tracks for more than 99p, or less?

"The big record companies hate the fact they have to sell tracks on iTunes at 99p even though they're distribution costs are zero"

If the record companies really think that distribution costs are zero then they are big idiots... Most of them have realised by now that retail is an art (or craft) in its own and they shouldn't mess with it themselves. They're perfectly capable to determine at what price they want to sell their content to the middle man (iTunes in this case) but they should have no say in what the retailer charges to the consumer. This is regardless of whether the retail channel is electronic or bircks-and-mortar.

I bought Lips today. Am I an idiot?

Nah your not lips is good some very good Ideas in there just means Sing have to up there game and what you on about singstar not go any good tracks they have loads

Vol 3 looks ace
SingStar Vol.3 track list:

Aerosmith - Cryin'
Amy McDonald - This Is The Life
Barry Manilow - Copacabana
Coldplay - Viva La Vida
David Bowie - Space Oddity
Deep Blue Something - Breakfast At Tiffany's
Dizzee Rascal feat. Calvin Harris & Chrome - Dance Wiv Me
Fall Out Boy - This Ain't A Scene... It's An Arms Race
Feargal Sharkey - A Good Heart
Fergie - Big Girls Don't Cry
Gwen Stefani feat. Akon - The Sweet Escape
Happy Mondays - Kinky Afro
Heaven 17 - Temptation
k.d. lang - Constant Craving
Kate Bush - Babooshka
Leo Sayer - You Make Me Feel Like Dancing
Lionel Ritchie - All Night Long (All Night)
Michael Jackson - Billie Jean
Paul McCartney And Stevie Wonder - Ebony And Ivory
Queen - Killer Queen
Sara Bareilles - Love Song
Smashing Pumpkins - 1979
Take That - Could It Be Magic
Texas - Say What You Want
The Communards - Never Can Say Goodbye
The Ting Tings - Shut Up And Let Me Go
Timbaland feat. Keri Hilson - The Way I Are
Timbaland feat. OneRepublic - Apologize
Transvision Vamp - Baby I Don't Care
Vampire Weekend - Oxford Comma


raise the bar anyone

For Lips to be a success, there needs to be a LOT of DLC... and cheap DLC at that. MS either need to work out a deal with the record labels or subsidise the cost to the gamer.