
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!!
P-kara Is Dead [Eg]






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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.
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...
Never heard of it
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!
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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