"The karaoke of the TAITO appears!" (Only on JP PSPs)
by Dan Choi 
{ Jan 25th 2006 at 1:00AM }
Taito has launched a song download service for aspiring karaoke masters on Japanese PSPs through Sony's P-TV service. Yeah, and that Japanese headline's a bit awkward, but that's what you get when Google does the translating for you.
According to GameSpot: "The site only offers about 70 songs at the current time, but Taito plans to expand the available selection to over 10,000 songs by early summer. Each of Taito's Karaoke songs can be downloaded for 105 yen ($.93), and can be played back on the PSP for 15 days."
A dollar per song sounds good, but it only pays for 15 days' use? We hope there are some well-paying karaoke competitions in Japan for those limitations, but that's a lot to pay for choice. Hopefully, Konami/Harmonix can do better with downloadable songs (or custom-song capabilities a la Dance Factory) on future versions of Karaoke Revolution, with hopefully a few hitting portable system or 2. There's no support mentioned for countries other than Japan, but who knew Taito was "one of the country's major karaoke providers"?
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Davis @ Jan 25th 2006 8:46PM
I hate it when Sony does stuff like this, they offer the best features in Japan....not in the country with more users and more sales.