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PSP Karaoke Game Sings No More

Online services for PSP title P-kara will cease June 30, 2007. Put on the market December last year, P-kara is an interactive karaoke game in which players use the portable's LAN function to access music for ¥840 (US $6.98) a month and provide more than the 3,000 streaming songs. Now that the service is ending, players can enjoy twenty downloaded songs on their PSP. Wow, twenty whole songs! How fun!! Brian Ashcraft

P-kara Is Dead [Eg]

4:00 AM on Wed May 16 2007
By Brian Ashcraft
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  • Image of Ampillion = That Man. Ampillion = That Man. at 03:20 AM on 05/16/07
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    Kinda sounds like it was a foolish venture from the get-go. Not the music access part, but the portable-system karaoke. I think most (if not all) the enjoyment of karaoke comes from one of two scenarios.

    1. Laughing at people attempting to sing a song who have no musical talent. (Laugh at friends/people you kinda know only. Do not risk violent karaoke outlashings.)

    2. Making a drunken fool out of yourself, your party/group, and making your date totally dig you in the process. (Not proven to be accurate. Or even logical)

    A portable system isn't party-centric at all. Makes the entertainment somewhat hard. Instead, it becomes solitary. And karaoke by yourself... that's a frightening concept.

  • Image of Duoae Duoae at 05:45 AM on 05/16/07
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    And this is why i dislike any full priced game that requires internet connection to a dedicated server. I wish more companies would go with the Warhawk method.

    Though admittedly this is a little different...

  • Image of Kyle81 Kyle81 at 06:33 AM on 05/16/07
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    Never heard of it

  • Image of Overlord11001001 Overlord11001001 at 07:00 AM on 05/16/07
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    Abd stuff like this is why you don't rely on an external server for your game/activating your game/getting content. Once it goes, the game is useless even if you have all the code and data!

  • Image of topaz420 topaz420 at 09:20 AM on 05/16/07
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    I thought this was a cool idea. Many of us sing in our cars anyway, this would've been a cool way to stop at a red light and check out your score after an in-car performance.

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