How Michael Jackson Singstar will boost PS3?

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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.