Lips (new karaoke game for Xbox 360) first photos, check out the mic

Here are the first photos of Lips for Xbox 360 developed by Japanese studio iNiS ( Elite Beat Agents). Scheduled for November 2008, this new karaoke game will be playable with two wireless interactive microphones that react with the player movements and voice. You can also see that the microphones will have light indicators. We hope to get more information of Lips during E3.

[Silogon]

Boy Microsoft is going all out to lose what identity they have, huh? Singstar and wiimote rip offs, loose talk of a mii/home like system. What the hell is wrong with the game industry as of late?

Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo are all working hand and foot to collectively break the empire down to its foundation.

Sony with it' high ass, not worth it price tag, junk bunk ass PSN store and lack of exclusive games across the board.

Microsoft with their need to want to be like Sony and Nintendo so bad it is crippling their very own identity in the process. I mean, they actually think a split between Sony and Nintendo is going to work for their aging hardware.

Nintendo with their need to be so turned on their axis to the ones who made them what they are. Nintendo and that garbage remote has killed any and all interest I ever had in Nintendo. It isn't a supplemental system, it's not even a choice for me.

So with that said, these 3 companies can die off the market for all I care. Bring on APPLE!!!!!!

[Sez]

well i must say you do keep it fair with bashing both companies.

[-Maverick-]

silogon you're such a idiot loser. Just STFU you homo biotch.

[Defectiv3_Detectiv3]

C'mon now, we all know that MS doesn't have an original bone in their body. All they do is copy their competitors. All they have done to innovate was to improve online play and have the first console to come with a HDD(the original xbox).

But honestly, w/o Sony paving the way for MS they would never stand a chance in the industry.

[eagle21]

You will love it! You will complain and complain and complain and complain and complain and complain and complain and complain and complain and complain and complain and complain and complain and complain and complain and complain and complain and complain and complain and complain about that awesome system!

It's perfect for a guy like you!

LMAO :)

[CR7JUVE1897]

You claim that every company is ripping each other off, and this is true.

But, if you think about it. What is left in the video game industry that has yet to be discovered??

Its eerily reminiscent of the music industry, where we are starting to settle for less, because every Lil' Wayne, Jonas, and Britney can basically come out with an album of them saying the alphabet in Swahili, and it will still sell a million copies.

This is a reason why the tried and true sequels that struck a chord with so many people are going to sell, (FF, Halo, MGS,GTA, Mario) because the core product was something that was truly unique when it first came on to the scene.

Much like the way The Rolling Stones, Van Halen, and Billy Joel can go years, sometimes decades without new material, and people will flock, because it reminds them of why they fell in love with the product in the first place

[Silogon]

I agree with what you're saying and think that is probably the most level headed comment I've ever read here on n4g.

It still don't change the fact that the industry is going downhill, though. It's just not something we, as consumers, can stop.

[kazuma]

dwd u should really see a shrink, i really think u have multiple personality disorder

[CR7JUVE1897]

It's a cycle, man.

The main problem, in my opinion, is that the Gaming Industry is no longer about gaming, its about mainstream entertainment.

Ergo, it is now part of the entertainment industry, and it has lost its identity to most gamers out there who got hooked on it in the first place.

We all want more. As paying consumers, it is our right to always want to get what we pay for.

No amount of technology or gimmicky controllers will ever hide the fact that the industry has definitely seen a decline in quality.

But people aren't so much interested in quality in games, at least not the masses who are now snapping up every version of Cooking Mama that is available. They want a quick fix. They want something that they can enjoy for an hour at a time, in small doses. And the industry certainly has picked up on that.

Even great, great titles such as Gears of War, or God of War, weren't as long as they could be.

Why is that? I think its because we, as consumers, and older consumers, simply don't have the time, or not as much time as we used to. Not when a lot of us have to work double time just to make ends meet.

I mean, the original NES and Genesis, in its heyday, were geared for KIDS. Kids that actually have the time to sit through Zelda long enough to actually go back and play the second quest.

The new systems, particullary the Wii, are geared for a demographic that comes home from work, has dinner, and wants to spend a half hour palying Wii Boxing against a Weeble-Wobble clone for 20 minutes.

The days of innovation might be gone, my friend.

The next company that comes out with something truly revolutionary, not evolutionary, bet it Microsoft, Sony, or Nintendo, will be the company that will be remembered for ushering in a golden age, just as Nintendo did with the NES, and Sony did with the Playstation

[TheColbertinator]

Luv Burger,your analysis of the videogame archives deserves a bubble,my friend.Also I am a Hendrix fan.

[tojfs7931]

even a gamer then?

[THE_JUDGE]

I don't see this going over too well in the States but maybe EU will like it.

[chaosatom]

i thought they already use singstar for this kinda of stuff on the ps3.

[sonarus]

singstar is fun so this is nice. Unless the game has some lip synch technology then the name is stupid

[gaffyh]

I can't see this game being adopted by the 360's more "hardcore" audience. Plus the name just sounds stupid for a game.

[NO_PUDding]

Well how does it differentiate itself from Singstar?

Or is it just a downright copy-cat? I mean I know it's copying somewhat, but the 360 isn't at all that biug in Europe and that's the only place Singstar sold.

I know I am goign to pick up Signstar next week. It seems liek a lot of fun.

EDIT:

About Xbox Mixer below... What a laod of crap, that was awful, you coudl sing alogn to the music. And it wasn't competetive.

Was a totally different thing.

[KingME]

"I can't see this game being adopted by the 360's more "hardcore" audience."

WRONG, this is exactly the type of game needed on the 360.

I think this is cool. I already have Singstar and love it, but I will still buy Lips as well. One thing that it already has that I like better than Singstar is the "Wireless" microphones. And if they add more up to day music it'll probably make me stop using Singstar. Right now, Singstar has a very stale music selection. And seems to be very high on rock and pop, while rnb, rap, and indie fans are getting the shaft. So if Lips has more rnb, rap and indie, I'm in.

[kewlkat007]

a little different, well they won't buy it anyway...WTF

Anyhow these are not my types of games, thePS3 does have Singstar and I don't know anyone that has that game..it's def more popular in Europe and such

I bet you if the Wii gets something similar it will sell like hotcakes, it's all about marketing with these types of games.

[sonarus]

You would be surprised how many people play singstar in the states. Since i got it girls have been coming over to the crib a lot. Thing is a better chic magnet than a wii lol

But seriously lips sounds nice and i am liking the dancing part but what kind of name is lips.

[xhairs9]

Do you need batteries for the microphone?

[BLaZiN PRopHeT]

Before everyone starts with the its a Singstar rip off MS had a karaoke game back in 2003 a year before Singstar came out. This game has the same basic features just a new name.

[BulletToothtony]

and i'm surprised MS abandoned it... i guess they gave up too quickly, because according to wikipedia there's more than 70 different SKU's of singstar around the world..

I love singstar is the life of every party i have.. that and alcohol of course

[BOSSMK XXIII]

I swear this guy does covert PR for MS.

Doesn't matter if they had some game 5 years ago, they're still trying to monopolize on anything that's succesful.
And this is pretty much a blatant ripoff.

[ps3FTW]

It is still a rip off of Karaoke Revolution.

[JOLLY1]

I still have that game. There are a few peoplethat still come over and play it. What the crap is the name!

[Kyur4ThePain]

You're hilarious.

[Bnet343]

They had some game I think it was called Music Mixer for Xbox 1

[Dir_en_grey]

If you are trying to say who's first....
Dreamcast had a Karaoke add-on with downloadable songs and a library of more songs than any of the current music games.
Heck the original Famicom (Red & White Nintendo) had Karaoke games, the friggin mic even came with every Famicom built into their controllers...

They need to bring that mic on controller thing back... imagine playing a stealth game and you get detected because the mic picked up actual noise. Or you actually having to yell "Sunlight!" in MGS4 with the Solar Gun.

[BLaZiN PRopHeT]

@2.1 its was called Xbox Music mixer its the same features as Lips they came out with 2 of them.

@2.2 and i swear all you do is troll 360 thread it doesnt matter what site huh?

@2.3 it came out before Karaoke Revolution.

@2.5 how am i Hilarious?

@2.7 im not trying to really say whos first. just that they had a music game with the same features as Lips 5 before singstar hit the market. I figured there would be a lot of people typing singstar ripoff. just trying to educate the masses.

[NO_PUDding]

Noen of them were competetive though.

Singstar was competetive and based on Karaoke, not being a multimedia enhacement DVD, like Xbox Music Mixer was.

Singstar is all about the music, (which it has tons of of) and the competition in accurate tonality. Lips will be copying that.

[mcgrawgamer]

how you get disagrees for stating facts? the likes of this site will never cease to amaze me. but I forgot MSFT is the kakashi of the gaming industry. The copy ninja, LOL; at least in the eyes of fanboys.....

[Dark_Vendetta]

Elite beat agents was actually damn good. Hopefully they can make a good Xbox360 game too

[Dark_Vendetta]

By the way this should pretty much confirm Xblade (the list with Lips and Xblade was released few weeks or months ago)

[Mr PS3]

That are Excited by this !!!

Check out the mic it says
It looks like that Dildo controller
What is wrong with you
You Sick Freaks

[QueefyB]

it does look like a dildo i feel so sad for xbox 360 players they have nothing to play for ever

[QueefyB]

i think i know why this game will flop the cover looks so bad

[Bladestar]

damn... here we are observing the mic the features that no other karaoke game ever had.. and both of you are thinking about dildos and how you planning to have fun with it... wow.. you guys should team up for some hardcore love... you both think alike.

[Skerj]

Wow, that mic sure beats Singstar's mic.

[AllroundGamer]

true, at least it's not just a copy, but also has some new features.

[Captain Tuttle]

I'll pass

[highps3]

And Mii's...

Whats going on Microsoft? Wheres all the games? You had a great first year but what bout the rest?

Is there an US, hardcore audience aimed games coming out? Or just japanese and casual games?

Microsoft has clearly lost their way.

[BIoodmask]

with a screen name of Highps3 to say anything nice about an Xbox 360 game? Probably not.

[Bnet343]

http://www.xbox.com/en-US/g...

[joemayo76]

im not sayin MS is copying sony as karaoke has been around waayyy before, but this looks to be MS answer to sony's singstar which is pretty big in the EU, and fun as hell. diggin the mics man, comon sony where's the wireless mics for singstar? :D

[Aclay]

The majority of Microsoft's casual game titles hasn't fared that well because it's mostly just hardcore gamers that own the console. Even with the 360's lower price point, I think that Microsoft still has a long way to go before they attract casual gamers by the masses and attracting casual gamers is something that Sony has been able to do almost naturally for the past 10+ years without even trying.

Singstar is still WAY more well known when it comes to singing games, and Microsoft will have to advertise Lips like crazy if they want to compete with Sony's Singstar.

[Dir_en_grey]

I bought Singstar thinking I could learn some English songs... but the library sux b@lls...
The songs they put on for download are totally catered to women and gay men...

Not that I'm against women or gays... but come on... put on some songs that are worth while learning.

The song list is the biggest factor in any music game imo, hope this one will have a good and HUGE song list.

[JasonXE]

ddru2 but i did enjoy safety dance.

[power of Green]

Wonder what mindless rubbish these moronic PS3 fanboys are talking about in here.

I even heard some fool in the gamerzone(highPS3) clown MSFT for not having hardcore games for Hardcore gamers when he is probably one of the losers claiming MSFT doesn't do anything to win over casual gamers.

[power of Green]

LOL Some angry troll hit dissagree.

[Vojkan]

one of biggest rip offs since scene it riping off Buzz. Can MS do something original for once?

[thenickel]

Can you ever do anything rather then complain about what MS is doing?

[Bzone24]

Actually "Scene It?" first came out in 2002 and "Buzz!" came out in 2005. Looks like if anyone copied, Buzz copied Scene It.

[KidMakeshift]

Is anyone else uncomfortable calling a game "Lips"

[JasonXE]

that girl looks hot holding onto that mic though.

[Shmammy]

Yes! Cant wait Im a karaoke freak!

[vhero]

OMG do MS have to rip off everything sony do? they ripped off the eyetoy, buzz and now singstar. I smell desperation... Also the buzz clone didnt do well and i doubt this will MS audience in general are not into these games.

[Yellow11]

So sony never copied microsoft??

[RecSpec]

Holy crap, iNiS are geniuses when it comes to music games (Gitaroo Man, EBA, Ouendan). I wonder what they'll do with this.

[kazuma]

they should really start referring other inis games like gitaroo man, or the 2 ouendan's, elite beat agents sucked monkey balls lol

edit: wow at the disagree, u probably never played ouendan lol

[RedVsBlue]

Karaoke Revolution was released in November, 2003

The Xbox Music Mixer was released on December, 2003

Can you moronic stupid ass fan boys please stop whining about Microsoft copying each other. Both Sony & Microsoft released the same type of game almost at the same time. How about we just say both companies copied each other & be done with it. Why don't you morons actually go play the PS3 instead of just stupidly bashing the 360. You seem to bash more then you play the system you own

[Bladestar]

shhhh.. these leg humpers can't do the math... so why ask them such difficult questions... game development only takes 1 month... lol.

[Old Snake]

I'm confused, I don't see lips, all i see is Singstar

[DreDawgg06]

Guys, This will succeed. There is nothing wrong with taking an idea and making it better. This is how everything gets done. There is no super human being creating all these ideas.

[Isaac]

I can see he posted a comment and then posted a reply to his own comment. How pathetic, he has to agree with himself because nobody else can see his comments.

[InMyOpinion]

Singstar goes next gen ;)

[iHEARTboobs]

The cover pic looks pretty damn funny.

[dragunrising]

Could be a fun game with the right songs and downloadable content. It needs to have features that separate it from SingStar. Or maybe I'm wrong and following SingStar, feature for feature is the way to go.

[Ri0tSquad]

But will Lipz have the ability to upload your videos and have camera support? Hmmm. I still think SingStar will remain the king of karaoke games.

[somelikeithot]

lipz, jesus man what a awful name.

Imagine asking your better half to nip and out and buy that game called LIPZ, they would laugh there ass off

[tojfs7931]

Going into a gamestop and asking the sales clerk- excuse me do you have lipz?

[Mr_Showtime1]

What matters is what game is better and im pretty sure its going to stay with Singstar and even if Lips is better, Singstar will still wipe the floor with sales (PS2- like the only game people buy on the PS2 nowadays)

[Solid_Snake666]

a singstar rip off to me

[Qbanboi]

Then people say that Sony is the "Copier"

[running rampid]

not really my type of game but it's good to know that they have also started to roll out with a stream of both causal and hardcore gaming products.

[tojfs7931]

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singstar is fun so this is nice. Unless the game has some lip synch technology then the name is stupid >>>

Is stupid regardless.

[tojfs7931]

Worst name for a game ever. With the exception of Rainbow Warrior or whatever its called.

[titntin]

Well this could be fun! Having wireless controllers is good, though I'm not too sure about the lights..

The trouble this title will have is that it needs to differentiate itself from SingStar.

This syle of game is all about the songs - its no fun singing along if you don't know or like the song your singing too, no matter how drunk you are! Sony hold all the aces here, with their massive amounts of available content and artists, so I'd expect Singstar to remain top of the field simply in terms of available media..

But it'll be interesting to see what this offers...:)

[thereapersson]

Sony has Sing Star, MS comes out with Lips

Sony has Buzz!, MS comes out with Scene It!, and even copies the controller design.

Just an interesting thought I had...

[Bzone24]

The Scene It brand was around 3 years before Buzz.

Just an interesting thought I had.

[thereapersson]

But there was no console video game. Plus, the controllers are exactly the same.

That's what I was getting at.

[Matpan]

Why leave an entire share of the market to competitors? It´s a perfectly normal corporate move... I say it´s great if they can make this kind of game and improve on the competition´s product.

[AllseeingEye]

nor does it have people getting blown up so...epic fail on 360. lol

[Unknown]

The majority of "haters" have the ability to see into the future and read the reviews for this game or the same people who either don't have a 360 to begin or have a huge disdain for it. I'm tired of hearing about who copies who are that MS is a copycat. If you're in business and your COMPETITOR is raking in all sorts of cash from a product then it is well advise that you offer some kind of alternative to that product to try and capture that market share. If companies COPIED the competitor's product exactly then they would get...SUED. So MS isn't so therefore they obiviously aren't just copying SINGSTAR or the DUALSHOCK or any other product that they offer as an alternative to what SONY or NINTENDO offers and vice versa. Business 101 people. Oh and I think LIPS will be great for capturing some casual market share...after all they've had numerous articles talking about how they're going to focus more on winning europe this generation.

[zonetrooper5]

Actually Viva Pinta was another casual game, it didn't sell that well mostly because of the lack of advertising and it came out at the same time as Gears of War. For the most part, its MS's fault for not advertising these 'Casual' games to the masses. As for Lips, I'm not really into these games but if its a way to potentially move more consoles then its a risk worth taking.