Newsweek's Level Up videogame blog is reporting that Namco Bandai's next-gen rolling-s**t-up simulator, Beautiful Katamari, will be coming exclusively to the Xbox 360. When the game was originally revealed, the title was set to find a home on Sony's console as well, but it seems weak hardware sales and some clever negotiating nipped that one in the bud.
Level Up's N'Gai Croal points out that while a niche title like Beautiful Katamari isn't going to make or break Sony's console, moves like this are quite telling.
"It demonstrates the impact that the continued weak PS3 sales are having on the strength of the platform," Croal writes, adding the fact that Microsoft's strong push towards courting Japanese publishers is finally paying off.
And it only took them six years!
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7:50 PM on 06.14.2007
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I'd be willing to bet a kidney we see Katamari on Wii and/or DS by end of next year though.
I'm still guessing this might happen.
If Namco wants to sell any copies of this game at all in Japan, it has to come out for the Wii.
So you know ... yeah.
What, you'd rather spend $600?
Um... <_< >_>
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Does the idea of playing Katamari on a lopsided (though comfy) controller worry anyone else?
Am I just OCD?
>_>
Why? I watched these videos. And the game looks exactly like the other ones. Sure the graphics look a little better, but other than that, it is a port. I already own this game, no need to buy it again.
Link to three vids vids of the game during interview with the games producer