Thread:SecondOpinion/@comment-5688420-20190116070158/@comment-5688420-20190119183244

A liitle experiment that ACS made during '07, To the Beat × Karaoke Superstar: Sing Dance Paradise is a split-screen rhythm game with a dance pad on one side and a microphone on the othef. The idea was to combine singing and dancing together. The song selection was composed entirely of Avex Trax licensed songs, making it the first and only TTB game to have such distinction.

However, there were two things that prevented it from succeeding.

1. It was expensive. Not only is a Sing Dance Paradise machine very rare, but it's also hard to maintain. From a player's perspective, you have to pay for two credits if you want the full sing amd dance experience, since the singing amd dancing halves were treated as the Player 1 and Player 2 sides, and in some arcades. And in some arcades, a credit usually costs two ¥100 coins.

2. It was unfeasible. Having two sides for singing and dancing meant that you must have a friend who knows the songs themselves (granted, most of these are from hot J-pop acts like Ayumi Hamasaki, but). Having one player handle both duties is worse, since more often than not the player would be exhausted just by the dancing alone. This is precisely why several pop acts use lip-syncing.