At the end of last month, we reported on a rumor that Beautiful Katamari would dump the PlayStation 3 and move over to the Wii. Those rumors have now been confirmed and Namco's cult roll 'em up sequel is officially headed to both the Nintendo Wii and Microsoft's Xbox 360. Do you remember the show Animaniacs? Do you remember on that show, one of the characters was a skeleton who had terrible things happen to him constantly? Sony is that skeleton right now.
The idea of Katamari hitting the Wii was never a shocker and is sure to be an excellent addition to the console's library, but I doubt Sony is as happy as Nintendo right now. As per the original rumor, Namco has cited programming issues as the reason why the PS3 is getting left out in the cold. Presumeably, all that Blu-ray was too much for one little Katamari to handle. Given Sony's awful run of luck lately, news like this has become less and less of a surprise and at this rate, anything that can go wrong for the poor company is going wrong. Hopefully in ten years, if the PS3 completes its marathon as Sony claims, this calamitous era will be but a footnote. Right now, however, it still sucks to be Sony. It really, really sucks.
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6:33 AM on 07.08.2007
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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.
Good Idea: Inviting developers to make games for your system.
Bad Idea: Pissing off the developers you invite to make games for your system.
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.
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.
but i'm still waiting for tekken6... c'mon tekken you can make the jump too!
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)
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.)
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.
Do I want Ratchet & Clank, or Katamari?
GUYS HELP. D:
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?
I've always enjoyed Ratchet and Clank more than Katamari, so there is my vote :)
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.
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.
NYAAAAAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR!
MasterMS is correct.
No one else is a bigger enemy of Sony than Sony. They've fucked up, major. Take a deep breath, admit it, move on.
If Katamari 360 is even using thumbsticks, that is. Guess we'll find out about their casual gamer initiative on Tuesday.
"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 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.
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.