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.
This will be considerably less awesome if they're all J-Pop songs I've never heard of.
It's not really like karaoke songs are all that hard to put together. The licensing costs have got to be ridonk, though.
Sounds pretty cool. I hope they have some good songs. :p
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.
How is a Karaoke game at all like Guitar Hero? o_O
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.
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You mean like the Japanese have been doing for years?Quote:
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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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Citizen Bleys
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20,000 songs seems like too many songs. There aren't that many good karaoke songs out there.
Still, every single one of them will probably be available. xP