Joysound announced for Wiiware

[Bodhesatva]

stof said:
Ok, bear with me for a sec while I ask what might be the most stupid question I've ever asked but... Is this a game?

So far from what's in that post, it definitely makes your Wii a Karaoke machine with unlimited songs. And that's awesome. It's also something marketable all on it's own. Ok, It does say that there are rankings, but to what extent? This might be far more of an experience than it is a game.

By definition, Karaoke is a video game to start with, whether it's on the Wii or not.

Are you asking if this is a "traditional-on-consoles, competitive, someone-wins-someone-loses" game? That we'll have to wait and see about, I suppose.

But a game is anything that's interactive that is engaged in for amusement. Catch is a game, for example. And any such entity that is displayed on a video screen is... a video game.  Karaoke has always, always been a video game. I'm not even using some obscure, archaic definition by the way; I'm using the primary one in every dictionary I've ever examined on the issue.