SingStar PS3 finally dated

By Tom Bramwell Published 9 November, 2007

In time for Christmas parties.

Sony has overcome whatever issues were holding it up and stamped a 7th December release date on SingStar for PS3 in the UK, with European versions arriving on 12th December.

The date, announced over at Three Speech and subsequently confirmed by Sony, is accompanied by news of a SingStar Myspace site where you can marvel at pictures of mostly girls (and that stupid sunglasses man) pouting along to all your old favourites.

The new SingStar - originally envisaged as a launch title for PS3 - also introduces SingStore, a way of downloading back catalogue tracks to fill out your karaoke library, which has the potential to extend the game's life considerably.

A number of reviews of the game have already appeared in specialist magazines in the UK, although few if any were able to offer an overview of how well the store worked (since it didn't), so it will be interesting to observe how the new approach is received in the run up to next month's release.

Naturally we'll be taking a look at it around then, and in the meantime you can always check out our fairly recent preview, in which Ellie met producer Paulina Bozek and got her to jabber on about everything from the SingStore and wireless microphones to what she thinks of Rock Band.

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About Tom Bramwell

Tom is Operations director of Eurogamer Network and Editor-at-Large of Eurogamer.net. He joined the company in February 2000.

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  • mkreku #1 4 years ago

    Anyone know how much each individual song is going to cost? Please let them be cheap!

  • MikkyX #2 4 years ago

    It's been delayed that many times it may well FEEL dated by the time I get my hands on it.......

  • Tejstar #3 4 years ago

    Does anyone also know whether we can access tracks that we have bought before on the PS2 version? For some this could be a considerable investment and it'd be pretty disappointing if we were forced to buy those again.

  • Killerbee #4 4 years ago

    Does anyone also know whether we can access tracks that we have bought before on the PS2 version? For some this could be a considerable investment and it'd be pretty disappointing if we were forced to buy those again.

    Of course, it would've been nice if Sony had stuck to their original pledge to keep backwards compatibility in the PS3, since then we could all just play our existing PS2 collections and happily add to those via the Singstore... BUT NO!

    (Sorry, I'll get back in my hole now. ;) )

  • DonnieDarko333 #5 4 years ago

    Songs will be itune prices i reckon...say 79-89p each? I just hope we can download bands from America!

    I doubt it's gonna be out in less then a month mind, my bet is Feb 08!

  • TILT #6 4 years ago

    In the interview, they said something about the wireless mics not being available for launch... has this been sorted out in the meantime? Or will it launch with the wired mics from Singstar PS2?

  • MrGilder #7 4 years ago

    Finally! Christmas is gonna be a lot more fun now!

  • Triggerhappytel #8 4 years ago

    It has been said by Sony a long time back that songs and videos for SingStar PS3 will cost no more than on iTunes. Not exactly sure what the pricing is on there, but I understand it's about 79 pence for a song only and about twice that for the video as well.

  • Garulon #9 4 years ago

    Hmm, Chav game on £300 console weeks after GH III ships, with the most repellant tosser imaginable on the front of the box, and a 12+ rating.

    I smell another AAA hit from Sony firstparty!

  • IAmBatman #10 4 years ago

    Using myspace's bandwidth for your game website is a genius idea.