SingStar firmware upgrade will allow PS2 disc swapping [Update]

What about those who don't have a backwards-compatible PS3...can't imagine that'll work for those of us who bought the 40 or the new 80gb...

This is great. I can pick up PS2 versions of this game for cheap and add the songs to my collection... Great idea...

This is EXCELLENT news.

Sony delivering value again.

I noticed that the PlayOn beta is offering NetFlix soon on PS3. Again cheaper than the competition (which forces to you buy a XBox Gold subscription)

Fantastic news, I found Singstar 80's on clearance for $15 at Target. Gonna pick it up today!

I hate that guys' face on the cover.

Shouldn't matter... it's just ripping the tracks off the disc not actually playing the ps2 game itself.

That's cool and all, but IMO, all these types of games should be able to do this. In fact, they should go a step further and let you use your own MP3's off your HDD and generate gameplay from there. "Beats" on PSP did it and that game was awesome. Whichever company figures that out first is gonna make a lot of money (and piss off a lot of artists who want to suck us all dry)

Watch now as the price of PS2 singstar titles rocket.

I wonder if this will allow the full functionality of the PS3 SS with the old songs. Will it record my audio, video, etc? Will I be able to up load to the community my performances? What about the quality of the music videos?

At least this should help with the slowly percolating offers from the US store. I always thought all the PS2 songs should've been in the store from day one of the PS3 release.

Since there wasn't an update to the US store a few weeks ago, maybe this patch will be out this week! (Right).

Just hoping for the best for what is already a great game!

Do you think you will be able to rip the High School Musical - Sing It game, daughter keeps bugging me for High School Musical song on singstore but they just don't seem to come

does this mean that sony can release a new firmware and ALL PS3 will work with ps2 games? hmmm damn it sony stop being jackasses and release the patch and make ALL consoles backwards compatible

Well that didn't take long. Sony giveth Sony taketh away.

Why can't they just upload all the songs to the singstore and let you download them if you have the disk. That would be fine by me.

Well when are we gonna get the wireless mics? Can we at least nail down a date for that?

Europe disagrees with you.

sorry, response was for Aerostratos

dis news is so awesome i cant waitt!

Well that bits and to think I was just going to buy Singstar for the PS3. I have three PS2 SingStar games in my house hold for the kids to play. I thought this would be a great feature. Heck with Lips out there you would think Sony would have allowed for this feature to be real. I think MS took an Idea from Sony and ran with it and made it better and so to me right now Lips looks like it would be more fun then SingStar.

Because when you have loads and I mean loads of songs on your Ipod and you can play them on the 360 that makes you really want to buy that game. Heck I could care less about buying a new Singing game and if you could have let your PS2 games stay on the PS3 to be played I would have been all over this.

I really have no need for buying either Lips or a new SingStar game but if I was going to buy a new one I would have bought the PS3 game over the 360 game seeing as the I know how that one would work over the other one.

But if I ever was to buy another singing game I might just have to buy Lips instead just because of the better features. So I hope Sony changes there minds and lets PS2 games stay on the PS3. Plus bring the Disney SingStar game to North America too.

Brilliant! Now do the same for Guitar Hero! :)

so if I have an imported Asia version PS3, my PS3 singstar will run in my system, but I don't think this will work on PS2 singstar game as most PS2 games are region lock,

The reason they don't let you rip the songs to your hard drive is they would have to pay a second round of royalties for each song they have licensing agreements for PS2. Stupid, I know but that's how copyright agreements work. Rock Band 2 is charging $5 for the ripping feature to try and recover some of those costs.