The console will be bundled with two microphone peripherals and a copy of SingStar Pop, the firm's massively popular karaoke-em-up that, we hear, Simon Cowell claims is the first port of call for those training toward a chance of winning American Idol. Surely that couldn't explain the myriad of truly awful auditions… could it?

The white console (teamed with an ice-cool blue that makes it look suspiciously like a Nintendo Wii aesthetically) will retail for $149.99 USD and is expected to help Sony further bolster sales of its stalwart PlayStation 2, which currently stand at 44 million units sold in the US of A.