“We wanted to let you know that we are still working very closely with our partners in the music industry to license new tracks, and we’re sorry there hasn’t been a SingStore update for a while. The last was posted in July 2015, and read: On the official SingStar Twitter and Facebook accounts, Sony remains insistent that further updates are coming. That’s led many to conclude that the game has been abandoned by Sony, yet that isn’t the case. At its peak, SingStore was being updated fortnightly with new tracks, and this went on for over half a decade. At the time of writing this piece – October 2015 – the last listed update to the SingStore dated back to March 2015. This is then compounded by the fact that the promised regular updates to the SingStore have simply not happened. Neither PS2 or PS3 discs, however, can be used with the PS4 version. Those who had bought, for instance, PlayStation 2 SingStar discs were freely able to use them on the PlayStation 3 version of the game.

Presumably there are some rights issues in there, but it’s surprising, given that backwards compatibility has always been one of SingStar‘s strengths. There have been assurances that progress is being made, but for those who invested heavily in song libraries on earlier versions of SingStar, this still rankles. The problem? Only a fraction, a year down the line, have actually become available. You could, through simple app wizardry, use your mobile phone as your mic.Ĭustomers who had bought add-on tracks for the PlayStation 3 version of SingStar were told that they’d be able to download them for free on the PlayStation 4 version as and when they became available. This time, too, you didn’t even need to invest in microphones. A new disc was launched, bringing the game to the PlayStation 4 for the first time. The bigger relaunch, though, came last year. Sure, not everyone wanted to download the core game (grumbles were duly noted), but the change of pricing mechanic was an attempt to invigorate the series in the era of downloadable content and in-app purchase. It made the core game free and downloadable, and you just bought the songs you wanted. But as things slowed down, Sony changed things around. For some time, SingStar was a solid success.

Singstar songs from ps3 to ps4