Arnold Katayev reports:
''With a number of American releases under its belt, the Singstar franchise is trying to penetrate the American gaming markey the same way it has the European gaming market. After getting numerous PlayStation 2 iterations, our PlayStation 3 entry of Singstar has finally arrived, and I couldn't be any happier. Here, the same rules apply as the previous games, but the differences lie in the abilities of the PS3's network,
I've always preferred games with legitimate, licensing tracks, as opposed to covers - one of the reasons why I couldn't appreciate Guitar Hero for a while, as well as Konami's Karaoke Revolution games. So naturally, I've taken a liking to the series because not only does it feature licensed music, but also their music video playing in the background to go along with it.
Singstar uses a very clean user interface, one than even a five year old can navigate. You can either play a practice session, or play for points and attempt to score the best record. Because, karaoking is an activity that you don't normally do alone, feel free to call over another seven friends and compete in an eight-player Pass-the-Mic mode, or a two-player Duet mode. If you're wondering how Singstar games work, the game's superb voice recognition system will measure the tone and pitch of your voice, and instantly display your performance on the screen, as the vocal bars scroll along.''
IGN India says: “ Interior Night’s Charu Desodt on bringing Singstar to life on the PS2, winning a BAFTA, and upcoming Xbox Series X|S and PC game, As Dusk Falls.”
This may come as a bit of a shock to Americans, since it never really took hold in the US, but Singstar was one of the most important series ever released on a Sony console. And in January 2020, after 15 years of PlayStation karaoke, it’s finally going to be shuffled off the stage.
This game could live on as a VR game. Karaoke as different created characters or franchise characters from other games. Sing as Kratos or Nathan Drake or Parappa the Rapper, etc and post to social media if you're into that internet thing. Would be funny. And interesting if you had individuals who could really sing. Alloy becomes a virtual singing idol.
Sounds crazy but it's creative for VR. And you could use Dreams to create your backgrounds and music videos. I don't really sing but don't think they should give up on Singstar.
So if you invested potentially hundreds of dollars in the game with DLC songs, will all of it continue to work or are you just SOL now?
I loved SingStar but it hasn't been supported most of this gen. It had a half-hearted revival with a couple of discs but very little of the PS3 library transitioned across. I will probably keep my PS3 just for SingStar when PS5 comes out.
SingStar was huge in the US. Where did the idea that it wasn't popular in the US come from? It wasn't a hardcore game, so the hardcore gaming community never really noticed it much, but the game was a huge money maker for Sony.
Sony is shutting down online servers for SingStar and Driveclub in early 2020.
Extremely disappointing how Sony has treated one of its best exclusives this generation. Love Driveclub. Such a shame it never received the love, attention and respect it deserved from Sony, post-launch.
everyone can make mistakes and definitely Sony made one by letting to die Driveclub, if you didn't know is still best looking racing game out-there , not only looks heavenly stunning but plays awesome as well, not sure how hard affected Sony to take such decision but for what we know is a very bad decision taken.
I can only agree with Yi-Long and masterfox...Sony just made a HUGE blunder with no doubt.
I adore DriveClub and I've been playing It a lot the last couple months. I even just got Platinum in both DriveClub and DriveClub bikes this week. But the multiplayer in both is absolutely baron. There's no matches on either to play online. You need to arrange online meet ups
we just got it had to buy it as it was the selling point for the wife letting me buy our ps3....
now to save up for another ps3 so i can get back to gaming lol
ps kinda cheep on the song as they only give you 30 on the disk waste of b/r and an obvious cash grab as they sell songs online on the positive side tho songs seem to average 1.50 canadian so no too bad...
@JoelR: jeez st loiuse, way to a make a point...couldn't post a link? have a bubble for the herculean effort....
on Singstar '80s. I learned a valuable lesson when I bought that game... I should never go to the store when I've been drinking.
Is the Mics in Singstar for ps3 wireless?