i seem to remember when the wii was first released, and the creator of katamari dismissed the wii as a gimmick and declared he would never bring katamari to the system. over 3 to 1 wii to ps3 system sales later, he comes crawling back.

Except the Katamari creator doesn't make games anymore.

You know, they could just port the first two games on one disc and I'd be good to go.

Nice to have official confirmation, finally. The old DS rumor made me gunshy.

They really should re-release the first two on the Wii. Afterall, the colorful graphics and kiddie style fits best on the Wii.

My whistle is going WOOH WOOOH FOR YOU!

honestly, fuck sony

Sony's "Marathon runner, not sprinter" argument is such a turd.

What if the Wii is not a sprinter, but is in fact just a good runner, and the PS3 a out of shape fatso? Wouldn't things look the way they do now as well.

I think what's going on with the console wars right now is if you have a live in girlfriend or live with your family, as either parent or child, or are a video game playing female, you are going to get the Wii. Single guys are split between the 360 and the PS3, and the 360 is kicking it's ass because it's cheaper, has better games, and the best online service out of all three consoles.

I don't mean to sound unkind, but Sony's excuses have been really shameful up to this point, and make me dislike the company. When that one dude at Sony said "Show me a store that has the PS3 in stock and I'll pay you $1,000", I almost pooped with rage. And I never got my $1,000.

They just need to come out and say "We screwed up. We see that you are not buying what we are selling. We are going to make it up to you". If they said that, I could get behind them.

As I recall, the Gamecube price dropped the $99. I'm looking for Sony to make a move that bold with in the next year, and to announce it at E3.

If not, let them fail.

Wow a shame I thought Sony's controller would have worked pretty nicely with this game

I remember Mr. Skullhead! Also, ZOMG MOAR ANTI-SONY BIAS FROM STERLING!!11!!

Ahh, I was half hoping it wasn't true. I wasn't going to buy a PS3 anyway, but come on. Sony's going through enough shit as it is.

Or maybe they aren't. The PS3's still too expensive.

Oh, why couldn't the Wii version be called Wii Love Katamari? (not my idea)

Now it's time for another Good Idea, Bad Idea.

Good Idea: Using your PS3 to play video games.

Bad Idea: Expecting your PS3 to have games that it can play.

(I don't want Sony to fail. But damn, shit is flying at them from all angles.)

Man, Sony's turning into the retarded kid you picked on for a month in high school. Sure, it was fun and really easy at first making jokes at his expense, but the more you look at 'em, the sadder it got, to the point where you almost feel sorry.

Then you see them do something stupid and you laugh again. Looks like the PS3 is taking the short bus with the Jaguar and 3DO.

bwahahahahahahahahahahaha! yet another blow to sony

Aww, come on, Buck. Even I can be a bit of a Sony fanboy at times, and this story isn't anti-Sony at all. Just a story. He woulda done the same for any of the other consoles, had Beautimari been cancelled for 'em.

Only if they grow to be demon hunters, etc.

@Magesx

I've always enjoyed Ratchet and Clank more than Katamari, so there is my vote :)

Triple posts ftw!

Magesx, like SuMizzle, that too was sarcasm.

Honestly, I don't care about this game at all, but it does seem to be yet another tiny thing that is telling me that this generation will be different from last generation. How? That remains to be seen.

Lolololol flaming. Also the game really WASN'T showing much more than youl'd seen on previous versions in those videos. I kept wondering why this was coming to next gen, when it showed no tangible improvements. The control setup should port flawlessly to the Wii... I just hope they keep selling it as a budget title =X.

Yeah, this game will work so well with an asymmetrical controller (PSSST I'm talkin' about teh 360).

MasterMS is correct.

Last night, I hit Kaz Hirai in the head with a brick and raped him.

mock and spin-gamers should be united and see the big picture and how sony's (and MS's success for that matter) is our success at getting to play better games. I think some people thrive on others failures instead of using their gifts to be a positive influence and to put things into a proper perspective. What a waste of talent. Its just like news anchors who love bad news-sick and twisted-write back and mock and spin-I guess if thats all you can contribute....how sad

I'm hungry!

SuMizzle,

I totally understand where you're coming from, and if it were just one or two sequels, I'd agree, but this is just one in a long line of unfortunate things that have happened to Sony. Just the other day, the 360 got online for VF5. Before that, there was talk of exclusive material on GTA4 for the 360. These are things that, were they isolated incidents, wouldn't be an issue, but it's just happening again and again and again. Will Sony be crippled by it? It's Sony, so I don't think so. Nobody's saying Sony will be devastated, it's just they're having a really shitty run lately.

An article where I agree with 'Stalin' Jim, who apparently polarizes readers as much as the defected Summa. Sony sucks right now because they simply don't have enough games and their machines are too expensive. It's basic stuff. If you have no games for people to play, they won't play your machine. If your machine is too expensive, they won't buy your machine in the first place. Their whole process seems to be a comedy of errors. While the gaming world would ultimately benefit from all three companies being successful with their machines, Sony simply haven't delivered the goods in a fashion that allows their own brand the success the other brands have. Pointing out these issues isn't just relevant, but necessary, as much as it is to celebrate successes when they come too. Unfortunately for Sony, they haven't had many this generation.

Oh, I thought Burkhart's name said Buckhart. My bad.

huzzah. I'm so glad that I don't have to spend the 600 bones on a PS3 now.. had me worried.

much more love for the wii.

/does the neutron dance

Why can't they just release it for both?

*dramatic pause*

Is it really so difficult to develop for the PS3 that they can't even make a frickin' Katamari game for it?

*rimshot*

HAHAHAHAhahahahaaa... ...I kill me! ...ha ha... ...ha... er, *ahem* ...never mind. That wasn't funny at all. Sorry, I guess I'm still in Nintendo Fanboy™ mode after that "no lightsaber game" story. Seriously, though, this sucks pretty hard for Sony. Really, why can't they release it for both? *shrugs*

Anyway, to all the people bashing Jim for posting bad news about Sony all the time... well, it's kind of hard to post good news about Sony when, you know, there isn't all that much of it to post. And for those still comparing Jim to Summa, this is totally different. Whereas Jim only posts bad news about Sony because that's pretty much all there is lately, when there is good Sony news every once in a while, he posts that too. Summa, on the other hand, had the awe-inspiring ability to make even bad Sony news seem like good news (and, more egregiously, the ability to make good Wii news seem like bad news). Also, I don't think I've ever seen Jim make a snarky, snide pot-shot of a comment at Sony fanboys in the same manner that Summa always, ALWAYS baited those of Nintendo. For what it's worth, I made the same mistake of comparing Jim to Summa at first, too, but I've long since seen the error of my ways.

If anything, I think it's more an issue of the void that was left with Summa's departure not having been filled yet, so people are trying their best to mold someone into that void simply to return things to some kind of shitty status quo. In this case, the victim of this seems to be Jim. Personally, I hope that void is never filled, because we can do without that sort of shit.

I personally caught that the 3y warranty only covered the RROD... But that's just me.

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I have long said that I think all this losing exclusives is pure BS - as well as lost multi-platform games. Now, before I am to continue - let it be known that I am no fanboy. If I buy a game that's exclusive, then it's exclusive. If I buy a game that's multi-platform, I buy it for the best offered version. Thus is why I only own two games for the PS3 at this current moment.

I see these issues as a double-side. For one, it's always the argument from development that there are too many problems programming for the PS3. Is the problem a PS3 caused issue, or a developer caused issue? It is in their own choice whether or not they want to step up and take that challenge to overcome the obstacles of learning to program for it. But lately, developers have been really dropping the ball on effort. Instead they just go with the easiest route possible, damn the attempts at harnessing a greater processing power - despite what that might mean for a game. Now, i'm not saying that properly coded games for the PS3 are going to look God Almighty greater than the 360. But how will we, the consumers, ever know if Developers are unwilling to show us the possibility...

The only thing we PS3 owners have to look forward to, that has the slightest chance of sparking developers into action, are their first party games and their ties remaining on definite exclusives.

So here's looking to the future. May it not be reduced to generic repetative gaming due to lazy development.

Additional note since it sounds so much like I am saying the PS3 is the future. Makin me sound like some kind of lame ass Sony PR monkey...

I currently see the PS3 as the only option for the future. The 360 is a great console, as is the Wii. But graphically and from a technical standpoint as spoken about - the Wii is running a different race. A race that the PS3 and 360 are battling with... I honestly asked myself this and I still don't know the real answer - when MS releases its new console here in only a few years now - given the projected timeframe for the 360's lifespan... How will they deal the processing? Do we honestly expect that MS will simply slap 5-8 General Processing Cores in a box with a giant fan and an old DVD player? I sure as hell hope this is not the case, and I personally can see MS eventually, with their next console, taking the plunge into the winner of the High Definition Disc Format, and most likely attempting to utilize and strike a deal to gain the cell processors power... I honestly don't feel that a console the size of a small PC is the "future" of gaming.

@ Burkhart:

I love how I made a comment above yours making fun of the retarded "Sterling is biased against Sony" claim, and you go right ahead and say pretty much the exact same thing.

@ SuMizzle:

In regards to favoritism, you guys report on the 3yr warranty, but fail to mention it only covers the RROD. Had it been Sony that extended their warranty to only cover a specific error, that had been occurring since the system's launch, lords knows how it would have been reported. Again, that may be why you catch the misguided shit from commenters. Who knows.

Maybe you should read the article again.

Wow ... you really hate Microsoft. What'd they do, kill your dog?

I don't know, Jim. I am personally rather confused as to whether or not he's a Sony fanboy, an Xbox Hater, or a Sony Hater!

Wait wait. He must be a Nintendo Fanboy *nod* It's the only option! Sonyhater in the name, microsoft hater in the message! Rather villainous.

A hater who hates all but Nintendo. We see. Yes, we can see how this can happen... Fearsome... With a Royal Puff, we finish this message.

" seem to remember when the wii was first released, and the creator of katamari dismissed the wii as a gimmick and declared he would never bring katamari to the system. over 3 to 1 wii to ps3 system sales later, he comes crawling back. "

Um... not really... he left the project after "We love Katamari" stating that Namco would probably release more sequels without his involvement... the first of those was "Me & my Katamari" on PSP and now the same guy who oversaw that game is working on "Beautiful Katamari"

Console Wars are awesome!

...

...wait, no they're not.

I'm late, as always. Whatever.