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SingStar on PS4 Turns Your Phone into the Microphone

Given everyone's pretty tired of buying new music peripherals, this is a brilliant idea.

May. 21 2014

Posted by: Patrick

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SingStar: Ultimate Party

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This game killed the franchise. Absolutely terrible game.

Hey guys, how can we make an awesome new Singstar game for the super popular ps4? How about we remove half the features from the old games that people really liked? Sounds good!

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But they don't do the most obvious thing of all - let you use your Vita as the microphone for this, voice chat and all that stuff.

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Just when I thought I had escaped that song...damn you Sony!

Cool idea though.

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YEAHHH! However I don't want my friends, drunk or otherwise inebriated, to touch my phone. Then again the Xperia Z1 and 2 are drool-resistant....

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Cool idea for Karaoke at home.

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It's a good thing phones tend to be incredibly shitty microphones.

Whatever, it's not like added functionality is a bad thing, I have no reason to complain.

Especially since i will never play this game.

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Hey they're all attractive and young, yayyyyy!

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If I can't use my ps2/ps3 discs this is going to be absolute garbage. I'm not going to lose hundreds of songs just to play on the ps4.

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@turboman said:

Why is everybody covering up the place your supposed to talk into on a phone to sing into the "microphone".

That drove me crazy for some reason.

Same here :) Also music video games are usually crappy if they have latency problems, certainly over a crowded wifi connection.

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Pass.

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@fuwano: Hey, it's the french touch :) !

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@darkstalker: They develop and publish the series, it would be kinda silly to use anything other than a sony phone for this trailer

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Fuuuuck! How did know one else think of this first!? It's obvious!

Shit, I could've been rich!

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This is a good idea. Not requiring a peripheral means a lot more potential customers are accessible to the publisher/developer.

This game can be sold as a digital download, which would be impossible if it needed a peripheral.

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@bicycle_repairman: Because if you are having to hold any device to issue voice commands you may as well just use the controller.

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That dancin'......

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Made it 10 seconds to the video, no thank you, next.

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Why does this look so much like a Microsoft commercial? They are basically using a bunch of modern UI tiles at 0:40.

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Just makes me wish I could play it without the PS4 on my phone.

Karaoké

The accent make isn't necessary, not that it's a big deal or anything.

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Is there a secret club where everyone loves singstar or something? I always thought it was kind of dumb. Kind of surprised about the reaction to this.

Also, phone microphones suck. Doubt it would pick up pitch as accurately as a usb mic directly plugged in to the console. This is you singing into a shitty phone mic which is getting piped over your shitty internet into your ps3/4. They'd have to really work some magic for this to work perfectly.

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This is awesome, no more stupid mic clutter.(Thanks, RB3 and Lips)

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For all the things Sony's done right lately, that still drives me crazy.

BUT HERE'S MY NUMBER

SO CALL ME MAYBE

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This is slightly off topic, but this got me wondering about something. Do EU PS4s have Singstar on the XMB (or whatever you call it on the PS4) the same way it was forced onto EU PS3s?

For all the things Sony's done right lately, that still drives me crazy.

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You could say this allows you to KINECT your voice to the ps4?

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Curious to know what the actual microphone quality is like though - aren't most phone microphones pieces of shit compared to the real deal? In fact I remember the PS3 Singstar microphones being highly sought after because they were of fairly great quality, and also being wireless.

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pretty smart idea. and it gets people talking. good stuff.

Isn't the idea to get people talking rather than singing?

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Just don't leave it on people's dashboards as a permanent unremovable advertisement.

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Very smart.

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@somejerk: Dude fuck yeah, they better have fixed that shit. I remember when my original 60gb ps3 broke and when I got a new one all the songs I bought wouldn't transfer over, leading me to quit playing that game. YOU BETTER GET YOUR COPYRIGHT BULLSHIT RIGHT THIS TIME SONY!

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You could say this allows you to KINECT your voice to the ps4? I bet some people would really like to use this to control their ps4 ui or watch tv... This could get really big.

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I want to see the terms and conditions. Could be neat if it isn't also used for data-mining.

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As someone who been playing the series since the first game came out 10 years ago, I'm definitely looking forward to it on PS4. Oh, how I can't wait for people live streaming their drunken SingStar sessions.

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Very cool idea, but if I was gonna bother I'd want a mic-ass-mic.

...plus I have very little confidence in my wife's Sony phone's battery.

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Pretty neat.

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@mackinder: The GBA had come down in price by the time any game was using it and people were outraged they'd be paying 50-100 for a "controller" for a $200 or less console. Crystal Chronicles released at $40? Many people did own a GBA. The minimum for a xperia phone is $180 and the PS4 is $400. A PS4 controller is around $60. Assuming this runs on other smart phones the price of them is just as high or higher than a Sony phone.

The median wage has fallen since the GameCube was first released.

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@olemarthin: @turboman: How else would people be able to see that it is a SONYâ„¢ XPERIAâ„¢ phone?

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@bigd145: If everyone at the time had owned a GBA, then sure.

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FUCK YEAH! Time to restart my wishlist for 107th time!

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This is genius. I will buy this.

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Karaoké is the best. I'm weirdly excited for this.

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why are all the singers singing into the speaker of the phone instead of the microphone??!

hahaha!

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That's pretty interesting and could help to make it a cheaper game as far as microphone/game bundles go. But at the same time this is totally weird. And as said before, this is probably what SmartGlass could've been.

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If it works on the iPhone, and it works really well, Sony may have just hit it out of the park on this one. Also I hope there's a regular good microphone out there for PS4, just in case. I've never cared for SingStar, but this could be a big hit for them, especially knocking the mic out of the box they can sell it for cheaper and get a lot of people into the system.

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why are all the singers singing into the speaker of the phone instead of the microphone??!

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Now if they could make the phone take OS voice commands also...

This is really clever.

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Great idea as long as it's not just sony phones. If it includes other models through an app, then its a brilliant idea.

Just seen on another site that it does. Hmmm, good work Sony

I should imagine it'd work the same way that Beyond Two Souls phone app did, in that it'll just be a free downloadable app that connects to your system over your local network to interact.

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I'm sure this app won't be on my Windows Phone. *Sniff* I'll go back to hunting cables. On a side rant I wouldn't mind if they released the Bluetooth mics here in the US.