DEN writes: "As I believe I made clear in my review of Singstar on the PS3, I do not think highly of Sony's karaoke series, largely because the concept was done first and far better in Konami's Karaoke Revolution series. The Singstar games just have too many flaws that have never been addressed, and it's little surprise that Singstar Pop 2 makes no attempt to rectify them either.
For those who haven't played the Singstar games before, or haven't read any of my reviews of them, the list of issues is as follows. Unlike the Karaoke Revolution games, Singstar has no option to turn down or off the song's vocal track for a pure karaoke experience. Like Karaoke Revolution, Singstar uses a pitch sensor to rate performance, however, the indicator of pitch and timing is far worse, and is placed so far away from the lyrics on the screen that players are often forced to choose between looking at one or the other. What's more, the Singstar games only work with Sony's Singstar-branded microphones, while Karaoke Revolution worked with virtually any USB mic or headset players had lying around. To top this all off, in my opinion the track selection in the Singstar games has never been anywhere near as strong or balanced as in the Karaoke Revolution games (with perhaps the sole exception being Singstar 80s)."
PS3Hype writes: 'Today Sony announced that the SingStar series has surpasses 20 million copies sold after 5 years! A year ago the SingStar series has sold 16 million copies. That means that in one year the franchise sold 4 million copies!'
What a spectacular achievement, especially since you guys have only released 27 titles in 5 years.
Wow what a fanboyish comment go take them somewhere else please. This is great news for them and shows its a popular franchise.
HOLY CRAP!that's a lot!
Also R&C surpassed 25 million few weeks ago
GT is at around 53 million
I think Buzz! is also pretty big
nice to see Sony got some big franchise,they are really important
It's weird, you don't think much of these franchises, see nothing about their sales, and yet...
I remember playing it in Best Buy and I thought it was a very good game. Unfortunately, people in my house don't like to sing openly...no matter what so there was no need to buy it.
yeah two black dudes singing a Britney spears song will not work
411mania talks about this week's game releases. Highlights include MagnaCarta II, Tales of VS., SingStar Queen, and Hearts of Iron III.
On Magna Carta II, 411mania writes: "Even though the title indicates that this is the second MagnaCarta game, it is actually the third in the series, the first being for the PC and the second for the PS2. Unfortunately, Atlus' release of the PS2 sequel a few years ago wasn't very well received - some were impressed with the visuals and a lot of people liked the story, but many found the combat system off and most agreed that the voicework was bad. Luckily, MagnaCarta II features a whole new cast of characters, a new storyline, and a different fighting system, so knowledge of the previous games are not necessary."
Aww it's just the import version of Magna Carta II I thought they would have brought it out here already :(.
GamesRadar writes: "There's an overwhelming number of user videos on SingStar's SingStore and trying to watch them all would be stupidly impractical. So it kind of makes sense that, when browsing the karaoke clips, most people head stright for the videos that have earned top billing with a five-star rating."
