Re: Peter Moore Interview

Date: 24 Jun 2003 07:53:20 -0700
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email-address-deleted (Sam Altersitz) wrote in message news:<email-address-deleted>...
> We all know what karaoke has to do with gaming: to get sales in Japan.
> It's certainly no secret that the Japanese go ga ga over karaoke.
>
> It'll be interesting to see how Karaoke Revolution does in Japan on
> the PS2, and then compare that to how it does in North America and
> Europe. I tend to think that it will do fairly well in Japan, and not
> so well in other territories (if it is even released in other
> territoriies).
>
> Same thing with the Xbox Karaoke Machine, er, Music Mixer. It'll
> probably do fairly well in Japan, while sit on the shelves for the
> most part in North America and Europe. I wouldn't be surprised,
> though, if MS allocates most of the units to Japan and not to the
> Western territories. They may even bundle it with the Xbox in Japan
> to try and spur sales over there, which will probably work.
Point of fact. There was already a Karaoke game on the PS2 in Japan.
Several in fact. One was called Yaoke no Mariko or something like
that. The sales was good enough for them to create a sequel, but we're
not talking about RPG level sales here. I'm guessing 100K max.. and
that's on the PS2. An XBOX Karaoke machine would be lucky to make 10K
in Japan.. very lucky. As for North America, none of these games ever
got ported, that tells you how much confidence they have for its
success in North America.