Grand karaoke vizier Simon Cowell has apparently been in discussions with Sony about sprinkling some of that ahem X-Factor magic dust into the world of gaming.
Speaking in an interview with GQ and spotted by MCV, Cowell admitted that one of the few areas to escape his beady all-seeing entertainment eye had been gaming.
"I should have had 20 games, " said Cowell. "If you've got a game that's worth more than our shows and we're in 100 countries, something is a bit out of control."
We're thinking he's probably talking about Guitar Hero there, a fact confirmed by the Cowell's next pronouncement, "X-Factor should have been the initial vehicle to have Activision come to us and say: 'You've got all the traffic. Can you help launch Guitar Hero?'"
An X-Factor Guitar Hero axis? Surely there's only so much reality can bare? But Cowell was unabashed claiming "I'd put guitars on my show to get Guitar Hero."
Anyway apparently Cowell and new partner business partner Philip Green (of Top Shop fame) have been talking to Sony CEO Howard Stringer, with Green confirming the meet.
"I said [to Sony]: 'Look at what we can do together. You've got massive manufacturing capability. You've got retail business. You've got PlayStation. You're one of the biggest TV suppliers in the world. He [Simon Cowell] is one of the most watched men on TV!... Suddenly, people started to say: 'You're right.'"
What could this fateful meeting portend as two entertainment moguls go head to head in a brainstorming session that could surely shake the foundations of entertainment reality?
Well we hardly dare to guess, though perhaps we should leave the last word to Green who said, "Look at Guitar Hero. It's a billion dollar business. [Simon's] got more viewers, more hits, more everything - and he hasn't even got a website!"
Waves upon waves of Steve Brooksteins, before meeting the Final Boss......the behemoth that is Michelle McManus. The possibilities are endless - this man has created so many careers for complete non-entities and forgettable warblers.
*shudder*
No - just f*** off Simon Cowell, you utter cretin.
Cowell is one of those guys that has made loads of money off other peoples ideas. Only a matter of time before he soiled on the games industry, I guess.
Probably better off talking to Nintendo than Sony. Wii's where the money's at for the X-Factor sort of casual game if they want to reach those mums and dads who mainly watch the program along with their children.
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a group as been set up to ruin xmas for cowell... So if u really hate Xfactor like i do, on the 13th december after midday log onto itunes or napsta and buy "Killin in the name of" by "rage against the machine" and help it become the christmas No1 instead of the s**t i can garantee the xfactor winner will release.
So far the group as got about 400 thousand + members so this really can work and should be a good laugh
Cowell's a bigwig at SonyBMG as well as being a self-facilitating media node, so it's quite possible.
I agree though, the wii is surely their market. Can you imagine a singstar style game, where you get to sing the songs they had in that series, as the various contestants, and handily all just in time for christmas?? It'd be fooking massive.
I would think this could be a brilliant game if it actually rated you on how good you are rather than on just your pitch (like SingStar and Lips) so the game could go "You're rubbish. Get off the console and go dig yourself a hole in case you ever think of singing again"
At least if people played it first before trying to get onto that crummy show it could be doing the whole world a favour
I would think this could be a brilliant game if it actually rated you on how good you are rather than on just your pitch (like SingStar and Lips) so the game could go "You're rubbish. Get off the console and go dig yourself a hole in case you ever think of singing again"
At least if people played it first before trying to get onto that crummy show it could be doing the whole world a favour
Hopefully, but some of those people are very deluded.
OOh unless they did Avatar unlockables like Weeeiiird hair and s**t loads of Matalan T-shirts.. than I wont totally f**kin buy this game, especially if I could have Cheryl cole as a pet
It could work out well, but it'd just be a Singstar clone. @ the twat above me, it's easy to ignore things you're not interested in. You can be happy with your sub-standard Lips game.
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