A post on Dave Perry's Blog has thoughts from the former Shiny front man on the passing of Michael Jackson. It turns out Dave visited Neverland ranch a couple of times, and there were discussions of releasing new material through a video game, which Perry seems to think would have introduced a new audience to games, rather than vice versa:

Our discussions lead us to plan for him to release his next music album as a video game FIRST, then as an album. This would have introduced many new players to video games. He was incredibly interested in the idea, and we got quite far down that road, working on the story, mechanics etc. We were excited about the press potential, I remember saying to him, "Oprah never talks about video games", to which he replied, "Oprah is a friend of mine". This was a theme I learned, he had so many friends, and actually spent time with them all. It was really impressive.