Easy Piano easing into North America next year

by JC Fletcher { Nov 4th 2009 at 4:45PM }

Band Hero's reign as the DS music game with the silliest peripheral in America will soon be over. Valcon Games has announced that it will release Easy Piano, the piano teaching game with the 13-key keyboard attachment, in North America. It'll join the piles and piles of other games coming out in early 2010, but then those don't have keyboards.

Easy Piano includes a piano teaching system -- a mini Miracle Keyboard, essentially -- but also allows players to record four three-minute long performances, and includes a piano-based rhythm game. What it doesn't include, for obvious reasons, is DSi compatibility. Maybe the company will make a version for the DSi XL that connects wirelessly to one of those floor pianos from Big.

Also, we've changed our minds -- Band Hero is still the silliest.

Tags: easy-piano, game-life, music, piano, valcon-games

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Luke @ Nov 4th 2009 6:20PM

Oh GBA slot, you slut. You love it when I shove that piano in there, yeah? How about a guitar? A pedometer? My penis?

raindog @ Nov 4th 2009 7:41PM

What a shame that this is only one octave, and will never work with either of the Korg DS-10 products. At least it's practically guaranteed that one or more of the homebrew music making programs will support it. It seems like it would go pretty well with Pixelh8's upcoming chiptune synth.

ZonChau @ Nov 4th 2009 7:52PM

The DS Lite / Phat shall triumph with its GBA slot! The end is near for DSi! Or maybe not but still it's a keyboard you plug into your GBA slot.

Shoyz @ Nov 4th 2009 10:31PM

And the DSi can continue to suck, just a little more now.

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