How was Michael ever forgotton, when numerous musical artist were influenced by his music and dancing than any other artists? He was already a legend before his death in my opinion.

I see PS3 owners in this thread say they have never been the least bit interested in Singstar but Singstar MJ is a definite buy for them. Then they go on to say it won't move any PS3 hardware. Uhhhh what?

If there are PS3 owners without the least bit of interest in Singstar who will get Singstar MJ, then you can be sure there are non-PS3 owners who WILL buy PS3 for Singstar MJ. Singstar MJ is a system seller no doubt about it. I think Sony could easily sell 1 million PS3s to people who probably wouldn't buy a PS3 if not for Singstar MJ, possibly more. Who woulda thought a Singstar game would be a system seller when there are few real system sellers left this generation?

While Superchunk is right that there is more money to be made for Sony by licensing his material to multiplat games, in the short term Sony are better to keep it exclusive (i.e. limited to Singstar) until MJ's hardware selling potential has largely played out. Sony can sell the multi-plat rights to the highest bidder, which could include having some PS3 exclusive content.

Singstar MJ would/will sell multi-millions. And Singstar is such a cheap game to make, especially if you own the rights to every song on the game. Probably only need to sell 100K or so for the game to break even.

Should nintendo make mario-games multiplatform too? Keeping them exclusive limit their potential!

Coooool. I'm crazy about the SingStar series... Must buy for the holidays

Since we are talking about the most successfull entertainer of all time I can see the game selling 7-9 million copies and selling 2-3 million PS3 hardware units alone.

You're completely missing my point and obviously didn't read the rest of my posts.

Its not about making a SingStar game for other companies. i.e. similar to Mario.

Its about taking a movie/music IP that Sony owns and not using it in a way that maximizes the company's (aka Sony) profits from that IP. MJ is not a gaming IP, he's an music IP and similar to Sony's Movie IPs they should lease it out and make far more from royalties accross all platforms.

Now, if their long-term goal is to make money from SingStar first, then allow others, i.e. rockband, GH, etc, make their own games months later, then that would be a good way to do it as well.

What other games would work with a MJ license?  Neither Rock Band nor Guitar Hero make any sense.  Isn't Singstar the most popular/best selling karaoke game this generation?  

Also, as others have said exclusives by their nature limit sales of software at the expense of increasing hardware value.  I would love to see PS3 versions of Mario Kart and Halo, but I'm not holding my breath.

Why wouldn't RB/GH work? In the band environment with mics its the full experience. I would jam out on the Beat It Guitar and/or try to sing the lyrics.

Singstar is a great game for the MJ idea, but it just wasn't the smart fiscal move imo.

As for you last comment and others who say the samething, all of you are being stupid. I never said "SingStar" should be made for other consoles. That is a Sony games IP. I said MJ should be leased to 3rd party game. Sony already does this with a lot of its Music/Movie IPs, why? Why not force them to only be on Playstation family? Because, they will make far more money for Sony being open. Same exact idea here.

I don't see any difference. Nintendo could make more money by royalties if they allowed other companies use mario in their games.

Judging from the responses on this thread, you should reconsider who is being stupid.