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Next-gen SingStar at Leipzig News
PlayStation 3 News by Tom Bramwell
Sony Europe boss David Reeves has told Eurogamer to expect "the next generation of SingStar" at Games Convention.
We were speaking to Reeves at an event in Santa Monica today and asked for his views on Microsoft's new karaoke game Lips.
"If you come to Leipzig, you will see the next generation of SingStar," he told us. "That's all I will say."
And it really was, even when we coaxed him to say something more dramatic about what a massive rip-off - albeit an impressive one - iNiS' upcoming Xbox 360 singing game seems to be.
SingStar, we heard at Sony's E3 conference on Tuesday, has now sold more than 15 million units worldwide, with nearly 2 million songs downloaded via the PS3 versions.
Games Convention is just over a month away, so tune in then to find out what Sony has in store.
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keyboardmonkey
17/07/08 @ 06:54
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I've put this through the bullshit extractor 2000 and what he is really saying is:
"We didn't expect to have to release another singstar so soon. What were going to do is wait for the release of Microsofts game and then any feature that Singstar doesn't have that Lips does were going to build it into the new all improved Singstar" |
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tonynibbles
17/07/08 @ 07:31
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Microsoft have got a long way to catch up.
SingStar is THE console karaoke game. I shouldn't think they've got much to worry about, it's like Scene It vs Buzz. Great to hear there are new features on the way though and well, looking forward to the wireless mice. But PLEASE, no more dongles... |
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Mentalist(air)
17/07/08 @ 07:44
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Out of interest, how are the MS wireless mics connecting to the XBox. Surely there's a dongle involved.
Yes, just like the dongle that the wireless controllers connect to, that have Xbox Live headset microphones plugged into them. |
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Thought SS PS3 was supposed to be next-gen, well apart from the lack of content, wireless mics, etc...
Oh and for god's sake make the wireless mics bluetooth, the fact that the buzz wireless controllers need a dongle is ridiculous. For a so-called next-gen console my PS3 has more than half its USB ports filled with PS Eye, Singstar and Buzz dongles. (If you own a 40GB, you need a hub or you're boned) |
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Mentalist(air)
17/07/08 @ 07:49
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Microsoft have got a long way to catch up.
Well... there seems to have been general murmurs of dissatisfaction with PS3 Singstar. Also, PS3 isn't anywhere near as cheap as PS2 was when Singstar first came out. But a £150 Xbox 360 Arcade is. It might be the next step for Singstar which would be... instruments. I think instruments would ruin Singstar. The difference between it and other music games (except perhaps drumming ones) is that the singing is real, not some plastic toy abstraction. It's just karaoke with a scoreline. Turning Singstar into rockband will put a lot of people off. |
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kangarootoo
17/07/08 @ 08:28
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"I enjoy Singstar PS3 a lot but God help you Mr Reeves if wireless mics aren't included, if Buzz can do it why can't Singstar?!"
That makes no sense. 1. Buzz! doesn't have microphones. 2. All platforms ALREADY have wireless controllers, which is all Buzz! buzzers are. |
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FladgeMangle
17/07/08 @ 09:16
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Perhaps the next step for Singstar is a free paparazzo and eating disorder in every box?
@keyboardmonkey You trying to drag the old "sony steals" cliche into this? Sony steals from a company that copied something they invented? That's not the best way for you to show off, is it? |
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Well we know that they've been working on wireless mikes for a while now, who know's why it's been taking so long.
But yes there is an element of "Oh bugger we weren't expecting lips to be any good now we need to get off our arses and do the stuff to Singstar we should have done when we first launch the PS3 version" |
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Eighthours
17/07/08 @ 10:25
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Are they admitting that the present incarnation of Singstar is lazy, then? (Music store aside.)
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keyboardmonkey
17/07/08 @ 10:50
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/ I thought Sony had already released 2 versions of singstar for the PS3.
Wireless Mic's should be in the new version, along with a lot more content. I'm not sure how many different types of modes you could make from singstar that works well e.g. The rap thing, (i am totally pants at it and haven't seen anyone be really good). @FladgeMangle Nope not trying to say they will steal it, just that i am quite surprised that this bit of news appears after the main E3 presentations and he won't give any details as to what's new in it. I jumped to the conclusion it was a bit of a panic announcement and that they are waiting to see of the Lips offering. I hope the new version has no old songs on it that have already been released on other versions of singstar. |
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Still, in the "stealing" thingy, it's very, very bad that the consumer is taking sides with the companies and asking them to not improve good ideas.
In a semi-related analogy, the medicines industry is hurting civilization big, big time with the patents for the AIDS medicines, which are in control of one or two companies which put astounding prices to their products and don't let others compete with them and therefor lower the prices. I'm not taling about Chinese kinda patent infrigement though. |
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@miiiguel - I agree
Microsoft Lands Milestone 5,000th Patent http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press... |
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miiiguel,
Drug companies would argue that the high costs are due to the fact that they have to recover R&D costs and the patents expire after 10 years at which point generic medicines are introduced to the markets. In a similar vain, Sony has passed on the high costs of BR development onto the consumer in the form of the PS3 |
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@oreillymj:
see..., you, and some fellow gamers mistaken my undenied passion for my 360s with the passion for the brand Sony (or MS) some have. johnnybrn: I agree with all that, but higher values are a stake (that's my socialist side talking, but I read a lot of Marx...).
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Well one thing I'm willing to put money on that will be in the next Singstar update is something more with EyeToy. We already have the very funny videos online, but I'm sure these will be able to be directly uploaded to Youtube from within the game next, as this was added to the Sony SDK recently and among others announced for another Sony producted game (MLB 09).
But it does indicate that the stuff we've been missing from E3's conference, among which for me personally more EyeToy stuff, may well have been saved for Leipzig! |
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SpaceMidget75
17/07/08 @ 14:40
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We use our PS2 Singstars a lot at parties and there are only 3 things that this demographic would really like:
Wireless Microphones Import/Use own music library Downloadable songs That's it and MS have fixed two of them (if it works). No doubt Sony will do the same but they'll pretty much be the same products then. Any other innovations would just not get used by most SingStar users. The thing that WILL make one better than the other is how many tunes are available and for what price. If I was MS I would capitalise on Sony's slow start to DLC and flood the bloody thing with just about every song you could think of for 70p a pop. That shit right there would sell 360's to about 4 different friends of mine. |
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SeesThroughAll
17/07/08 @ 15:14
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Where are the bluetooth mics, Reeves?
Can anybody here tell me if people can use BT headset with the PS3 singstars already?
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