Oh, No She Di'int!: Universal Music Announces U-Sing
People here in the States may not know this, but over in Europe Sony's Singstar is a big seller, with over 16 releases in the United Kingdom alone! Because Sony has access to the vault over in their music department, finding songs has never been that hard and they've been able to include a few picks here and there from other record companies looking to make a quick DLC-infused buck. But one company has almost always been absent from my favorite piece of PS3 software and today we finally have the reason why we've never seen TLC's Waterfalls up on the SingStore. It's because Universal Music Group is making their very own karaoke game entitled U-Sing. Outside of the clever name, not much is known about the game other than that it will sport a different playlist in each country it is released in (No word on a US release yet) and that it will be availible on "all platforms." No one can blame Universal for trying to get in on what is an established game formula, but it's going to take some big guns to attract the eyes of gamers already hooked on Sony's series. I'm hoping that we see a serious effort from them to give Sony a little competition (Sorry, Lips, I wanted to love you, but...).
While the bulk of the playlist is unknown at the moment, sharp eyes can spot a bit of Lady Gaga's logo in the top left corner of an announcement image taken from casualgaming.biz. It appears that the inescapable pop phenomena's "Eh, Eh (Nothing Else I Can Say)" will be included in a least one release.
[Universal takes on Sony's SingStar] CasualGaming.biz
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Posted to Video Games on 9 July 2009
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Hmm if they do this well they could stomp Sony over it's US version of "Sing Star". The US version is very un-supported here in the states compared to the EU version. That's always been sad thing to deal with specially since it's a fun game, and is capable of much more in the states.