How MySingStar Online will make you an Idol (or a total goof)

That is the magic of My SingStar‘s networked, Game 3.0 feature: My SingStar Online. As Lead Designer Kevin Mason explains it in the IGN Blogs, it’s a take-off from the concept behind YouTube and Flickr (and other public user-created media sharing sites).

Makes sense. One search for amateur band night, or covers of well-known songs, on these sites, and you get three boatloads of hits results. And sometimes, some of the results have been known to melt human flesh at the first note. God forbid that, in the future, My SingStar post-release era, someone butcher the LocoRoco theme song (because, given that it is the LocoRoco theme, such a feat would be unmatched in human history).

Keep a USB camera (like the EyeToy) plugged into the PS3 while playing My SingStar. Besides vidcapping your headbanging, your vocal ripping, and your air guitar (this ain’t Guitar Hero), it will also take ten still pictures that will form part of your performance’s media library. You can check the video, the audio, your score for that song, and those ten pictures before saving them to the HDD and uploading it to My SingStar Online. From there, your performance will be watched, rated, applauded or laughed at – you know, just like YouTube.

See? So if the last performance was completely butchered, please, for heaven’s sake, try again before uploading. Now about your presence in My SingStar Online: Kevin reveals that your profile will also include your nationality. There are around 260 nationalities to choose from, and will include little flags that go with your profile pic. We’re curious if the game will support multiple profiles (for multiple players on multiple profiles simultaneously), even though the PS3’s running on one user profile.

That is the magic of My SingStar‘s networked, Game 3.0 feature: My SingStar Online. As Lead Designer Kevin Mason explains it in the IGN Blogs, it’s a take-off from the concept behind YouTube and Flickr (and other public user-created media sharing sites).

Makes sense. One search for amateur band night, or covers of well-known songs, on these sites, and you get three boatloads of hits results. And sometimes, some of the results have been known to melt human flesh at the first note. God forbid that, in the future, My SingStar post-release era, someone butcher the LocoRoco theme song (because, given that it is the LocoRoco theme, such a feat would be unmatched in human history).

Keep a USB camera (like the EyeToy) plugged into the PS3 while playing My SingStar. Besides vidcapping your headbanging, your vocal ripping, and your air guitar (this ain’t Guitar Hero), it will also take ten still pictures that will form part of your performance’s media library. You can check the video, the audio, your score for that song, and those ten pictures before saving them to the HDD and uploading it to My SingStar Online. From there, your performance will be watched, rated, applauded or laughed at – you know, just like YouTube.

See? So if the last performance was completely butchered, please, for heaven’s sake, try again before uploading. Now about your presence in My SingStar Online: Kevin reveals that your profile will also include your nationality. There are around 260 nationalities to choose from, and will include little flags that go with your profile pic. We’re curious if the game will support multiple profiles (for multiple players on multiple profiles simultaneously), even though the PS3’s running on one user profile.