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Roto13
03-29-2008, 08:20 PM
http://au.wii.ign.com/articles/863/863040p1.html?RSSwhen2008-03-28_145800&RSSid=863040

For those of you too lazy to click the link, there's a Karaoke WiiWare game coming out in Japan this summer and they're aiming to have 20,000 songs available at launch, with an additional 1000 new songs per month.

Not something I'd play, but that's a pretty ridiculous number of songs.

Captain Maxx Power
03-29-2008, 08:20 PM
This will be considerably less awesome if they're all J-Pop songs I've never heard of.

Shoeberto
03-29-2008, 08:33 PM
It's not really like karaoke songs are all that hard to put together. The licensing costs have got to be ridonk, though.

KentaRawr!
03-31-2008, 11:53 PM
Sounds pretty cool. I hope they have some good songs. :p

Citizen Bleys
04-01-2008, 01:10 AM
It's the Japanese ripoff of Guitar Hero~!

Good to know that the JP rip off the Yanks just as quick as the Yanks rip off the JP. One could consider it an alliance. Ambrose Bierce's definition.

KentaRawr!
04-01-2008, 01:24 AM
How is a Karaoke game at all like Guitar Hero? o_O

Citizen Bleys
04-01-2008, 04:40 AM
It's guitar hero with voices instead of instruments.

EDIT: It's also people with absolutely zero musical aptitude attempting music.

Not that I'm not guilty of that myself, especially with a bellyful of rye and a bunch of New Brunswickers around me bursting into a chorus of Barret's Privateers.

Big D
04-01-2008, 05:38 AM
It's guitar hero with voices instead of instruments.Singstar?

Behold the Void
04-01-2008, 05:39 AM
It's guitar hero with voices instead of instruments.

EDIT: It's also people with absolutely zero musical aptitude attempting music.

Not that I'm not guilty of that myself, especially with a bellyful of rye and a bunch of New Brunswickers around me bursting into a chorus of Barret's Privateers.

You mean like the Japanese have been doing for years?

Citizen Bleys
04-01-2008, 06:29 AM
The Japanese get liquored up and sing Barret's Privateers? One would think they'd have a hard time with "Elcid."

Behold the Void
04-01-2008, 04:38 PM
The Japanese get liquored up and sing Barret's Privateers? One would think they'd have a hard time with "Elcid."

Japanese have been getting liquored up and attempting to sing English songs for decades. The pronunciation issues become less of a problem when you have several shots of alcohol in you, as I understand.

Old Manus
04-01-2008, 04:40 PM
This will be considerably less awesome if they're all J-Pop songs I've never heard of.Seconded

Flying Mullet
04-01-2008, 04:44 PM
20,000 songs seems like too many songs. There aren't that many good karaoke songs out there.

Roto13
04-01-2008, 05:00 PM
Still, every single one of them will probably be available. xP