Would not be surprised in the least to see a Wii Sing or Wii Karaoke next year. 

Except that in Wii Sing, you wouldn't actually sing, you'd just hold the wiimote up to your mouth like a microphone, and the game will guess what sound you are trying to make.

I don't totally agree with your logic (I'm sure most recording companies will be happy to sell the song multiple times over to Rock Band/Lips/Guitar Hero/American Idol/Singstar/Everyone else) but you've definitely got the right idea: Karaoke is Red Ocean. Sony and Microsoft already have their own products and with the way music games sell on Wii you can bet there will be many third parties pumping out Karaoke games for Wii by the end of 2009.

Some people suggest Nintendo should go ahead if it can come up with smart ways to "Nintendoize" the genre...I will agree with that, but in general I think the genre is well-established and Nintendo would be better off seeking new ways to bring in new customers or to get recent customers to move upstream to more complex games.

It's possibly Nintendo might make a Karaoke game but I'd highly doubt it. Lot of licensing issues to get over to get a good portion of songs in. Its why Wii Music didn't have a lot of "great" songs. I doubt Nintendo would want to deal with it.

Wii music?

I think this would sell well in the US and EU.
(Remember, a lot of PS2 users have Wii-s now -- and PS2 had SingStar).

The question is access to songs. But with PD, Nintendo library (Hudson makes Mario Party and some Mario sports games, so it is closer to second party than third party in development terms sometimes) and rights acquisition -- there could be enough to put together a good collection.

Mike from Morgantown

we will most likely see a wii sing { or mabey another tittle idk } , but mabey in the next 7-14 months, we will a series along those lines