Comments on: WHERE’S SINGSTAR?

By: Ed Curtin

Ed Curtin — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 12:46:11 +0000

My friend was doing promo work for singstar and was playing the game for a whole day in London, she cannot believe that it has not been released yet, as there did not appear to be any bugs. I just wish someone could give us an honest idea of when the game will be released. If they dont know, maybe after months of waiting we could find out why??

If you hadnt guessed Im beginning to feel a little desperate, Ive had this on pre-order since May/June and I told believe any of the stated release dates….especially the official site which has constantly had the release date scheduled for a date in the past (currently set to June -Sept release)

By: Jenny

Jenny — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 13:03:50 +0000

Gamekult.com published a video today, they have the official Singstar PS3 french version on their hands, and they shown the complete french playlist + all the menus and the new mic on the video. So the game is ready and the wireless mic are working… Why waiting october ??

By: Neil

Neil — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 13:31:55 +0000

@tricky: Thanks for the confirmation, that sucks.
If they have the same tracks available for download they could at least do some sort of offer for people who already have the old games. Like ‘bring your games to a game shop (for proof) and get a credit voucher to use on the SingStore’. Or even trade in.
I’d even put the discs in the post.

Swapping discs is just not on. Not only do you lose out on the integration - whilst flipping through your songs you realise it’s on a disc and have to reboot - but also there’s no online scoring/videos/whatever else they’re going to do for those songs.

I highly doubt they’d bother to do a highscore importer from PS2 savegames.

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Still seen nothing to explain why the release date keeps slipping.
Unless it’s to do with negotiating songs and prices, but then you’d have thought they’d have done that as one of the first ‘business case’ steps after conceiving the whole SingStore idea…

By: yamster32

yamster32 — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 16:07:34 +0000

Well the official release calendar STILL has it slated for August release, Until yesterday amazon still had it down for Aug 24th but now has it as September 28th.
So Who is to be beleived?
My Money says we will not get it in August which Sucks, as My wife & Kids were looking forward to this- And I got the $$ burning a hole in my pocket for this and GRAW2.

http://uk.playstation.com/games-media/release-calendar/

By: Tricky

Tricky — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 13:17:02 +0000

@neil - nope, if you want to download the songs from the original Singstar PS2 discs then you’ll need to pay for them. Sony are sticking by their guns saying that if you already have the PS2 Singstar discs then you can play them on the PS3 anyway…

Plus, I suppose the music videos will be upgraded to HD.

As for why we haven’t heard an official price for the downloadable songs yet, I suspect that could also be part of the reason for the delay. The music companies could well be attempting to charge more than Sony want so some negotiating may well be in order.

Personally, if it’s going to cost more than Â£1.50 a song then I’d be very tempted to tell them to stick it and I’d prefer it to be closer to Â£1. For Â£20 you can get a PS2 Singstar disc with 30 songs on it. That’s 66p per song if you take the simple maths route. Now obviously they’ve got to fork out for server costs for supplying all these downloads to us, but even so, that shouldn’t mean that they’re going to charge the earth for them.

Some kind of confirmation from the marketing team would be great, but if the game really isn’t going to hit until October then I suspect we’ll be waiting until the end of September before we hear anything concrete on pricing.

By: Darkie

Darkie — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 09:23:30 +0000

at all: why didn’t we hear the official price yet of which the songs a piece are costing while downloading/purchasing….

or aren’t there any technical difficulties but only financial ones

By: Darkie

Darkie — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 16:53:18 +0000

@ 24 thats something i deff hope for
since i already spend a big amount on the original Singstar,
the least they coud do is build a rip function in,to allow the ps2 owners also to use the cd’s they purchased instead of rebuying them or disc-swapping,if i wanted disc-swapping i would have bought a xbox

By: Neil

Neil — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 11:28:39 +0000

@Katana: Microphones?
They’ve always said, mentioned in various blogs over the months, that they are not looking to release new hardware with the PS3 game launch. The last comment I remember on the subject was along the lines of ‘nothing for launch but we’re assessing the possibility of some new mics for later in the year’.
Now if they’ve changed their mind and decided to hold back the game until they can sort out Bluetooth mics then that is really stupid and annoying.

@tricky: ‘Plus all the ones from the PS2 versions will be downloadable at launch’
Great, do I get to download them for free after I register the disc in the machine? Or can it ‘rip’ the tracks off the discs?

By: bsk

bsk — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 09:41:19 +0000

Dissappointing especially for those that bought the console for 600â‚¬ at release thinking they would atleast get some good promised games until the first packs and price cuts come.
Well you cant even sell the console again for a good price, as nobody buys it now.

I am really annoyed. The PS3 wasnt worth the money until now. I’d say, I would better have waited till Chrismas 2008 ….

By: RiotPelaaja

RiotPelaaja — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 12:23:13 +0000

The game’s done, but there’s apparently some legal issues with the songs and downloading and red tape stuff like that, which is a bit surprising considering how long SCEE has been doing this SingStar stuff.