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Wii Karaoke U by Joysound |OT| I Wanna Dance With Shibata
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DashReindeer
Lead Community Manager, Outpost Games
North America???? This would be so freaking awesome to have. No more paying the Karaoke places exorbitant amounts of money to have to play by their rules. I know the licenses to the music are hard to deal with, but c'mon guys. Figure it out and get me this right now. I'll be renting every weekend.
CrunchinJelly
formerly cjelly
Trial only starts when you go to sing a song. You can browse the app for free.
Nice! Will check the song list out later today.
Bless this game, I can't wait to have this in North America
haha i guess that is nostalgia talking i always loved the dutch version
. Well i downloaded the game but no japanese songs. guess i will wait until they add those to the song selection to use my free ticket.SporeCrawler
Member
Still no japanese songs.. Fail,
Its not even been out for a week. They said Japanese songs are coming and there is even a Japanese option in the filter.
Who is "they" in that case? Japanese songs would be great, because with the JP-WiiU you have like 100.000+ Songs ...
It's a great app!
terrisus
Member
So, basically, it's a game that one can only rent?
Ick.
Would have thought about getting it for my wife if/when it came out here otherwise.
But, that's a disgusting "sale" model.
Who is "they" in that case? Japanese songs would be great, because with the JP-WiiU you have like 100.000+ Songs ...
It's a great app!
Nintendo Europe announced Japanese songs in the latest Direct. I don't know if NoA did the same.
Why so? You get a HUGE library of songs you would otherwise never get. In other music games you'll get two dozens songs in the base package and then you'll have to buy each and every song individually. In this app, you pay two bucks and you can play whatever song you like from a selection of several thousand songs. That's a pretty great deal, really. Especially for a game that you'd only play on certain occasions with friends to begin with.
Grok4Spock
Member
I have a bad feeling that NOA is going to justify not bringing this over here because of Sing Party's shitty sales..
It really depends on how you want to play this. If you just want to play it when you have some friends over, it's a good model, especially since it gives you access to the whole catalogue.
It mimicks a karaoke bar, see it like that and it makes sense.
I played this with a few friends the other night and we did Karaoke Battle. It was hilarious! It's funny how the simple aspect of having your Mii's perform and dance can add so much to this. Doing Karaoke Battle brings up an American Idol-esque presentation and it picks a random Mii to be the host.
OP should have linked the clip of TM Revolution singing Memeshikute.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-S4sWjUE4M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-S4sWjUE4M
terrisus
Member
I'm surprised we haven't gotten "arcade" games where you have to pay a quarter (or, more in line with arcades now, a dollar or two) per play.
Here:
Bless you sir.
Hell, all I'd want added to that list is Born In The USA and Wrecking Ball, and I wouldn't be surprised if they did come later on down the road. What I am surprised by is how many they already have. I would not have suspected Secret Garden or I'm On Fire; those have to be some of my favourites of his deeper cuts.
Just get Born In The USA and Wrecking Ball in there, and I'd be a 100% satisfied customer with anything else they may have included.
jts
...hate me...
Does this support 2 players/mics? And Singstar's wireless mics work yes?
Also second the motion of having an online song list damm it. Can't be bothered to boot up my Wii U right now and download this (also would work as a potential selling point for others - it's advertising).
Also second the motion of having an online song list damm it. Can't be bothered to boot up my Wii U right now and download this (also would work as a potential selling point for others - it's advertising).
You are ignoring that buying each song individually would be drastically more expensive.
So you want to pay for a 1500+ songs app? Gotcha. it's 200 for you.
You either make a game like Sing Party, or you make this. I think this is better.
PumpkinPie
Banned
I wish I could preview songs first. I wasted my free hour checking out songs to see what they sounded like.
Yeah, and especially the lead guitar in rock and metal songs sounds pretty bad.
Have you experienced any differences, lag-wise, between the GamePad mic and USB ones?
By the way the GamePad is far from being the most comfortable way of singing so I guess I should go USB anyway... but I'd like to know about actual performance first, because with the gamepad there seems to be a noticeable lag (BUT the game audio selftest says there shouldn't be any problem) of my recorded voice that apparently isn't there when I sing.
By the way the GamePad is far from being the most comfortable way of singing so I guess I should go USB anyway... but I'd like to know about actual performance first, because with the gamepad there seems to be a noticeable lag (BUT the game audio selftest says there shouldn't be any problem) of my recorded voice that apparently isn't there when I sing.
frankie_baby
Member
sing party sold shit in Europe too
That's too cheap, usually you get 40-60 songs for 40, like Sing Party.
Killer Yakuza B
Member
It's a video of a very famous guy (TM Revolution) singing a very famous song (Memeshikute) by a very famous band (Golden Bomber). There's no reason to be so surprised XDWhy does this video have over 3.000.000 hits?
Maneauleau
Member
Not sure if it has been said but buying tickets doesn't contribute towards points with the Nintendo premium scheme
That's essentially the "stamina bar" mechanic found in Asian phone and tablet games.
Most of the comments regarding the video (on youtube or niconico) isn't even about the game. It's just fangirls loving and talking about him wearing shorts.Why does this video have over 3.000.000 hits?
Killer Yakuza B
Member
I can't download this to check the song list myself and Google isn't helping at all. Does anyone remember if there are any songs by Queen, Bob Dylan, Peter Gabriel, David Bowie or The Talking Heads?
Box of Bunnies
Banned
There were a couple of Queen songs, don't remember which. Not Bohemian Rhapsody or Under Pressure.
Don't remember on Bowie, didn't really think to check him.
Only Peter Gabriel I remember seeing is the Don't Give Up duet with Kate Bush.
Stuff it. Hang on, I'll fire my Wii U up and check for you.
Here we go:
Bob Dylan
Blowin' in the Wind
Forever Young
Gotta Serve Somebody
I Want You
Knockin' on Heaven's Door
Lay Lady Lay
Like a Rolling Stone
Mr. Tambourine Man
Rainy Day Women #12 & 35
Subterranean Homesick Blues
The Times They Are A-Changin'
Few more than I thought. Couple obvious ones I forgot.
David Bowie
Wasn't that I forgot to look for him, was that there was nothing there
Peter Gabriel
Solsbury Hill
Steam
Don't Give Up w/ Kate Bush
Queen
I Was Born to Love You
No-One But You (Only the Good Die Young)
Talking Heads
Nada
Killer Yakuza B
Member
Whoa, thanks a lot for the awesome list!
I'm surprised to see so much Dylan (Lay Lady Lay!) and so little Queen, although I Was Born To Love You is a great surprise! I would have though that the more obvious songs by the other three would make it, like Psycho Killer, Modern Love and Sledgehammer. It's a nice selection, anyway, and it makes me wish I could get it all the more.
Phife Dawg
Member
Box of Bunnies
Banned
No worries, happy to help.
Yeah, the selection is mostly pretty good but a bit uneven at times. Nicely stacked for some, pretty decent but missing a couple of obvious choices for others and just plain empty for yet more. It's supposed to be expanding over time though so while I'm pretty happy with what's there, hopefully it'll get fleshed out even more over time.
terrisus
Member
I'd rather 300 songs for 40€, which would make it about the right price for a video game at the same ratio as suggested above.
Maybe I'll get her that then.
Phife Dawg
Member
Gamepad mic really is quite useless in my experience. It isn't even able to rate due to it not picking up the voice correctly. Oh well, a proper mic is better anyhow.
Well you don't. A single song is 1,39 EUR in the Singstore.
To me the most misterious thing of them all is..how in the blue hell is the Wii U failing so much in Japan if it has this Karaoke app?
Zoe
Member
Cause it's not the only Joysound app out there.
Chû Totoro
Member
My wife has Singstar with more than 400 songs (and she bought every physical copy since the first one on PS2) and I can say that this is a way better deal here.
She must have (actually I must have) spent like almost 1 000 for this (god I want to cry now) so for this game she should play more than 5 years to spend the same amount of money.
She'll never get access to 1500+ songs in Singstar without paying a colossal amount of money (1 000 is enough.... tonight I just announce her that the SingStar shop is now closed ) and she can't even transfer the older SingStar songs
I'll convince her to go for this (after trying the game for a day this week-end to be sure).
She must have (actually I must have) spent like almost 1 000 for this (god I want to cry now) so for this game she should play more than 5 years to spend the same amount of money.
She'll never get access to 1500+ songs in Singstar without paying a colossal amount of money (1 000 is enough.... tonight I just announce her that the SingStar shop is now closed
) and she can't even transfer the older SingStar songs I'll convince her to go for this (after trying the game for a day this week-end to be sure).
Chû Totoro;85533154 said:My wife has Singstar with more than 400 songs (and she bought every physical copy since the first one on PS2) and I can say that this is a way better deal here.
She must have (actually I must have) spent like almost 1 000 for this (god I want to cry now) so for this game she should play more than 5 years to spend the same amount of money.
She'll never get access to 1500+ songs in Singstar without paying a colossal amount of money (1 000 is enough.... tonight I just announce her that the SingStar shop is now closed
I'll convince her to go for this (after trying the game for a day this week-end to be sure).
post your impressions then, they might be interesting to read
Chû Totoro
Member
post your impressions then, they might be interesting to read
Sure but I'll post hers first (and her friends). She had so many SingStar nights with friends I think her impressions could be interesting, yeah
She doesn't care about Sony or Nintendo (or gamepad or whatever) so she'll say things without bias I think (I mean if GamePad is useless she'll surely say it lol).
My impressions are going to be on the price (mostly)
Also there is already quite good posts here about first tries and the games seems to be fun