a sad state of affairs.

mmmm.... the tears of sorrow taste so sweet...

It's time for another Good Idea, Bad Idea.

Good Idea: Inviting developers to make games for your system.
Bad Idea: Pissing off the developers you invite to make games for your system.

Shut up ewe guyz! But Sony has teh bloo-rayz and teh cellz! Teh trippel is teh graydest!

I forgot to mention the bloo-rayz, thanks Joe. Didn't you hear, they are totally awesome and make games even better?

Oh, but as for the news this game is not coming to the PS3, it's really not a loss. Game looks exactly like the other two.

I agree and disagree with some things you say, Tron. I am single, yet I own all three systems. One can word through that all they will, but I don't believe my current state of living had anything to do with that choice - moreso my own love of video games...

Sony is having a serious issue right now with their game department.

But as for Beautiful Katamari itself. I wonder how tweaked down the game will be so it could run on the Wii. From the videos, it looks exactly like the previous games - but there's a whole lot more stuff. I wonder if the Wii will cause the game to lag?

Another thing that irritates me to no end with developers and their choices - are their choices regarding additional content. I am almost forced to buy Beautiful Katamari on the 360 now, if they are both perfectly graphically equal that is, just because of the sheer possibility that the 360 version will eventually get additional content and the Wii will not. The same goes for any game developed for the 360/PS3 *GTA4*.. Maybe i'm the only one who feels that way.

this is awesome!

but i'm still waiting for tekken6... c'mon tekken you can make the jump too!

SuMizzle: I'm gonna assume that's sarcasm on your part. If it were just Katamari, such sarcasm would be warranted. As it stands, however, this is just one in a long line of mishaps as you well know. On the PS3, a minor loss like this is not minor.

To summarize what Jim Sterling is saying: The blows to Sony might be weak, but they are adding up. And you don't want to get hit while you are trying to recover.

Now I ned to decide.

Do I want Ratchet & Clank, or Katamari?

GUYS HELP. D:

More anti sony shit from sterling, guess he just got a pay raise from M$

Dennen- You're right. After posting my rant, I realised I should have said "If you live with anyone female and you have a new console hooked up to your shared telivision, it is going to have to be the Wii".

I know married guys who have a 360, but it's hooked up to their private porn tv in the basement. Their wives play the Wii upstairs, or come over to my house and play it and tell me how much cooler I am than their husbands.

My point it, if a family or couple's choice as to what console they buy is made with any female influence at all, it's going to be the Wii.

Wife-o-meter FTW.

And little girls too. I was at EB today, and a 8 year old girl game in and asked if they had the Wii in stock. 8 years old. I could believe it.

Do you think any 8 year old girls in the entire world want a 360 or a PS3?

Mr. Sterling we appreciate your objective journalism and non-personal smack. Way to go. And yes SOny will recover but it still doesn't help the way the herd of public opinions and popularity polsters will exploit this. "If you cant take the heat get out of the kitchen" is true for wimpy developers as well. While some are stepping up to the plate others are giving up and not raising to the challenge. The cell obviously is difficult to use. While it inspires visionaries to reach beyond themselves and seek to discover what great things the system can do, others for lack or money, wisdom or willpower chose to follow the easier road already taken. Thank God for those willing to risk money and reputation for advancement in gaming. Shall we call it not as beautiful katarmari as could be. Their loss as well as ours. Get some heart developers!

Jim, you gotta' start getting the other writers to brake the news! The PS3 fanboys see you as Adolf up there.

@the GAMEGOBLIN

Sterling doesn't have to do shit. What people have to do is stop looking at their favorite systems as a source of pride. I have a Wii and a 360. Am I proud of them? No. But I enjoy the hell out of them. Will I defend them if Nintendo or Microsoft do something stupid? Hell no. Stupid is stupid.

Game consoles are not like children, so people need to stop treating them like they are some sort of extension of themselves. They are boxes that play games and sometimes movies.

Not all of these mistakes are Sony's. The fact is sony has unleashed some tech that is cutting edge-difficult and too challenging for conservative developers. Their price point is too high for MOST people who are not interested in a hi-def entertainment hub. But for those want to be early adopters of hi-def entertainment(HDTVs, 1080p games and bluray software)a 600 price point is a steal! I mean if you like and want 1080p games that assumes you have a 1080p tv-if that is the case is it not reasonable you would want to watch kick ass movies in 1080p-Sony answers the call for ALL. Sony is pushing the envelope-failures will happen and their will always be flatearthers to every exploration cheering on failure.But their will always be visionaries who wish success becuase they know it will advance their own entertainment and spur competitors on to bigger and better technologies which will benefit us all. All these failures cannot be justly blames on SOnys desire to raise the stakes-but just as much blame or more can go to the public polsters, spin doctors, lazy developers,and flatearthers of all stripes who can only mock and not bring new ideas and risks to the table! Iam a sony fanboy, a MS fanboy, and a nintendo fanboy and a pc fanboy-in short a gaming fanboy-I dont understand why so called gamers just want to kiss one companies ass. SO for now the herd of popular opinion holds sway and spins a good portion of failures onto Sony. All these little things will add up to failure to some but a challenge and success to others-then when there is fairweather the rest of you can jump on board or just continue to mock and spin.

Yep, I cancelled Katamari just like I forced Sega to put online in VF5 for the 360. The monocle's not just for show, I wear it while stroking my villainous moustache and going "nyar har har" every time I score another blow against the heoric Sony!

NYAAAAAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR!

You know. Sony fanboys that are looking at Sterling as the Stalin of the game blogging world should really realise that, creative license aside, every editor here is only reporting what's there. You're shooting the fucking messenger, and it's really sad you don't realise it.

No one else is a bigger enemy of Sony than Sony. They've fucked up, major. Take a deep breath, admit it, move on.

I think the thumbstick layout is irrelevant, considering I've been using the Xbox sticks for 6 years. If anything it will be better due to the tighter sticks...

If Katamari 360 is even using thumbsticks, that is. Guess we'll find out about their casual gamer initiative on Tuesday.

gameronlygame: Did you READ the report? This is what I said -

"Hopefully in ten years, if the PS3 completes its marathon as Sony claims, this calamitous era will be but a footnote."

How is that thriving on anything? If I thrive on anything, it's watching the same old morons make the same stupid asses of themselves every time I dare report the facts about Sony. I'm not spinning a damn thing, I just reported the facts.

Wii Katamari: Awesome.
Wii Katamari with motion controls: <i>Crotch punchingly</i> awesome.

For this, I pray.

I would've liked to stick a Chickenboo reference in this post, but I thought better of it.

Also to add: It's not helped by Sony's approach to problems either, just ignorantly attacking the competition and pretending everything's awesome. Everything's not awesome.

SuMizzle: They're isolated in that they're not *linked* to each other, but in terms of Sony drawing a bum hand, they're not isolated at all. Fact of the matter is, right now all I have for you is bad news about Sony, over and over. I'm being blamed for it somehow, but I'm working with what I have, and what I have is just a long line of kicks in the balls of the PS3.