At Tokyo Game Show, Sony unveiled a game called P-Kara, a karaoke game that's supposed to give users access to thousands of songs. The game is now available in Japan, and although it looks to feature some really great songs, it's also a little pricey: the game retails for 6980 yen. Granted, this includes the cost of a SOCOM headset and 20 songs on the UMD. The game becomes considerably more expensive when you consider the monthly subscription fees the game charges: 840 yen (~$7US) a month for "all you can sing" access. If you want to download songs for offline play, that'll cost you an additional 105 yen (~$1US).
P-Kara will rank your performance against other P-Kara users so you can be sure how awful you sing. Regardless, with songs like 愛しすぎて from CHEMISTRY, * ～アスタリスク～ from ORANGE RANGE, and more [full song list], I want to get it now. Unfortunately, a gaijin like myself can't register for the service (So-Net requires a Japanese mailing address when registering!) Considering how unlikely a game like this will ever leave Japan, that blows big time.
[Via Pocket Gamer, Siliconera & PSP GadgetZ]
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12-15-2006 @ 3:15PM
Saffie said...
Wow. Four songs from Gackt. This is something I should get pronto.
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12-15-2006 @ 6:29PM
theboi said...
KaRakoKi where ever you go madness now how come i want this
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12-16-2006 @ 11:01AM
Claudius said...
Dammit, why can't the rest of the world have something like this? L'Arc~en~Ciel, Gackt, Glay, Hyde...
dammit!
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