RUMOR: Microsoft’s Answer to Sony’s SingStar is ‘Lips’

We are well aware that the rumor of Microsoft’s Lips rumor has been circulating the net for some time now, but no one was really sure if it was indeed a karaoke game or not until recently.

According to Xboxfanboy, Lips is a karaoke game that utilizes a “specialized microphone with built-in lights and a limited motion detector”. Two microphones will be included in the package, the game consists of 30 songs and features the ability to import music from one of your CDs or your iPod to sing along with.

The neat part about it though is that the game redduces the vocals of the imported songs, and allows you to input the lyrics so that they will scroll across the screen just like the actual karaoke machines you see in dank, smoke filled bars across the world.

Lips will also have “hundreds of music videos” available for download and more songs will also be made available via the download service. However, I have to agree with Xboxfanboy that with the ability to download your own music, the likelihood of that happening seems pretty slim. If you can download a song you have already paid for and input the lyrics, why pay for it twice?

This is, though, a Microsoft game therefore they will find a way to force you to pay for it and you would be naive to think otherwise. Most likely, you would have to be logged into XBL to download your own tracks and to be able to play them, be logged in so that if you are violation of the rights to the song, you will either a) not be able to download it in the first place, or b) be forced to purchase it from Microsoft.

With that being said, it sounds like Lips would definitely give Sony’s SingStar a run for its money, which is MS’s intention anyway.

Via: Xboxfanboy