Singstar for Playstation3: Sony Brings It
Leave it to Sony to have one game that makes you buy shit for it, then keep meta-buying until you're broker than an MMORPG addict with a Mastercard. Singstar looks like alot of fun, until you factor in the $600+ you spend to get the PS3, the $80 you spend on the game with a microphone, the 30 you spend for the extra (because the game's no fun if you don't pretend you and your buddies are the hipsters advertising this game), the $50 you spend on the camera and the 99 cent+ karaoke videos that you could get for free if you watch enough MTV (to the point they actually air a music video). The other bitch is that since this is just another gimmick game to them, there will probably be more firmware updates to keep their DRM shit in check than actual content updates. Just look at what happened to the PSP, what had the potential to completely rock Nintendo's shit. It had better graphics than DS, had movies you could watch on its big beautiful screen, and all kinds of customizable goodness. What content did we get after that? A bunch of UMD movies and a scant catalog of decent games. No movie trailers (with Wifi they could have delivered it straight to the PSP), no music videos, nothing. We got stiffed with nothing but a big rubbery one in the ear, and annoying ad campaigns and commercials in the other.

Good part of this little trailer is the extra glimpse we get at the spiffy GUI. I'll probably still buy it (can't rent it without a mic) and sing Queen and Duran Duran way too much for a healthy heterosexual male my age. No matter what I say, I'm still buying the PS3 for the same reason I bought the 360, the same reason I am going to buy the Wii, and the same reason I write for the AFB: I love games.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, July 26, 2006 at 4:36 AM.