• Posted May 23rd, 2011 at 22:17 EDT by Steven Williamson
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New evidence today suggests that Sony may well be hoping to put its SingStar Dance embarrassment behind it and work on a new dance game that will hopefully mirror the success of Xbox 360’s Dance Central. And with Sony’s access to an extensive back-catalog of great music, and the PlayStation Move peripheral to take advantage of, there’s absolutely no reason why it can’t.

The evidence of a new dance game stems from three newly registered domain names: ‘MyDanceGame.com,’ ‘EverybodyDanceGame.com,’ and ‘MyEverybodyDanceGame.com;’ all of which were registered on May 20 by Sony. The websites currently have no content on them and are registered for one year only, possibly while Sony decides on a firm title for the game.

With Xbox 360 owners reportedly having a great time shaking their booties to the commercially and critically successfully Kinect-enabled Dance Central from Harmonix it’s no surprise that Sony is keen to replicate its success. And with Sony’s own SingStar Dance unable to capture the imagination of bedroom-mirror dancers, and Michael Jackson: The Experience largely failing to make good use of the PlayStation Move peripheral, there’s still a gap in the market for a decent dance game on PlayStation 3.

We’ve no idea, of course, whether Sony will create a fun game aimed at the casual gaming audience, but if it takes things seriously - like it has done with the singing component of its SingStar franchise - then there’s no reason why we too can’t have a dance game to be proud of on Sony’s console. We’d expect to hear more about Sony’s plans at E3 in a couple of weeks.