They are definitely overusing the Singstar franchise.
PS2
* 2004: SingStar
* 2004: Party
* 2005: The Dome
* 2005: '80s
* 2005: '80s (Special-UK-Edition)
* 2006: Rocks
* 2006: Deutsch Rock-Pop
* 2006: Anthems
* 2006: Legends
* 2007: Pop Hits
* 2007: '90s
* 2007: Die Toten Hosen
* 2007: Deutsch Rock-Pop Vol.2
* 2007: R&B
* 2007: Rock Ballads
* 2007: Après-Ski Party
* 2008: Summer Party
* 2008: Amped
* 2008: Hottest Hits
* 2008: Turkish Party
* 2008: Boybands vs. Girlbands
* 2008: ABBA
* 2008: Best Of Disney
* 2008: Singalong With Disney
* 2008: Schlager
* 2009: Queen
* 2009: SingStar Multipack
PS3
* 2007: SingStar + SingStore
* 2008: SingStar + SingStore Vol.2
* 2008: SingStar + SingStore Vol.3
* 2008: SingStar ABBA
* 2009: SingStar Queen
* 2009: SingStar + SingStore Pop Edition

*games released in Germany

You didn't know the Halocaust is coming?

As long as tehir quality is superb as it always is, they can release them every year... I'll buy 'em.

NO

No. They have a ton of franchises but they also have a lot of new IP's in recent years. It may seem like they milk a lot of their franchises but it's really only a small fraction of them.

Ummm... Sony overusing their franchises???

Isn't it Nintendo that has released like 1000 'different' versions of Mario and Zelda etc... If anything it would be them that SEVERELY overuse their franchises!

Well alot of people mention Nintendo. In my opinion nintendo actually does the opposite to an extreme. A franchise game like Mario, Zelda, Kirby, Metriod, or even Smash Brothers, are rarely release (about once a generation).

BUT they over expose their characthers by placing them into other games like Mario Party or Mario and Sonic at the Olympics. Pretty much any nintendo character can be whored out anywhere at any time and very cheaply.

This isnt what I'm talking about in this thread. What sony does is make a franchise game almost once a year... Imagine nintendo making Smash Brothers every year. Imagine if we had as many Mario Galaxy games since 2006 as we did Resistance games. That would be a problem.

I believe so, yes.

yes they do overuse their franchises. It is actually quite foolish to keep releasing rehashed games with little varience over and over just to say "hey we got another one".

you gotta let a game sit and build up hype for it to have amazing sales. They should learn from microsoft. Sony is in last place for a reason

Example - Halo 3