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Lingyis on 09 July 2007

whatever the case, the next installment of katamari will be a million seller, especially now that it's coming on the wii.



the Wii is an epidemic.

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ckmlb on 09 July 2007
Lingyis said:
whatever the case, the next installment of katamari will be a million seller, especially now that it's coming on the wii.

 Not likely. It's not such a popular game.



Thanks to Blacksaber for the sig!

sinha on 09 July 2007

Why 360 and not PS3? 

Namco Bandai revealed earlier this year that it was developing the next-generation Katamari Damacy sequel, Beautiful Katamari, for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. Up until recently, the developer continued to work on both versions of the project. However, sources close to Namco Bandai tell IGN that the studio ran into some trouble with the port of the game to PlayStation 3 and these issues, coupled with the stalled sales of the system, have led to the project's quiet cancellation. Looking to better-than-expected sales of Wii, the company has, say insiders, re-shifted resources to ready a Wii build of Beautiful Katamari instead. Given that the title cannot be ported from Xbox 360, the game is being re-concepted for Wii.

 



We don't provide the 'easy to program for' console that they [developers] want, because 'easy to program for' means that anybody will be able to take advantage of pretty much what the hardware can do, so the question is what do you do for the rest of the nine and half years? It's a learning process. - SCEI president Kaz Hirai

It's a virus where you buy it and you play it with your friends and they're like, "Oh my God that's so cool, I'm gonna go buy it." So you stop playing it after two months, but they buy it and they stop playing it after two months but they've showed it to someone else who then go out and buy it and so on. Everyone I know bought one and nobody turns it on. - Epic Games president Mike Capps

We have a real culture of thrift. The goal that I had in bringing a lot of the packaged goods folks into Activision about 10 years ago was to take all the fun out of making video games. - Activision CEO Bobby Kotick

 

scotland yard on 10 July 2007

I loved the original, but never played the second one. I might have to pick this one up.

I also think it's a perfect title to bring to the Wii. The mechanics are simple enough that the wiimote will really shine.