Do not let that stand in your way.....pick  up a ps3.  The creators also have a very charming game by the name of noby noby boy as a psn download.  You do not have to go without and if you have a console you are not playing you can always trade that one in to help with the transition.

I agree with you on the "keeping the industry afloat" thing, but that still only indirectly affects gamers and that is through a possible chain of events down the line. On a game by game basis, the only times we sould be hoping for exclusivity is when a game is actually going to take advantage of the inherent strengths of a certain console, and I don't think Katamari Damamcy Tribute is going to be that game the same way I don't think the last Katamari game for 360 took advantage of that console and could/should have been ported over to allow more gamers to get their hands on it. Games like Killzone 2, Gears 2, Heavy Rain, etc. I get why they are exclusive even outside of the first party ties. They are trying to push hardware as far as it can go in one way or another. Unfortunately for every exclusive that does this, you have others like Too Human or Motorstorm: Pacific Rift that don't push a damn thing and in many ways fall behind technologically against multiplatform competition.

Me too.

Just to finish up, I think multiplatform games this gen have been overall better than exclusives for one simple reason. I feel a lot of the best studios just happen to reside in the roster of third party publishers. Sure in a perfect world, all the best studios would be housed inside Sony/Microsoft/Nintendo and push single system specs and break the mold with innovative products, but in our world, a multiplatform Burnout Paradise can be better than an exclusive racer like Motorstorm Pacific Rift simply because of the pedigree of the developers themselves.

There's also the problem that to tap each system's strengths, whether it's the inards of the 360 and PS3 or the Blu Ray disc space takes some major investment, and most games won't see the return from it because both consoles came out with this tech too early to properly implement it the way it could be implemented years later. So even if a developer wanted to let's say create a PS3 exclusive just to max out a Blu Ray disc, could they really afford to? Is their idea ambitious and space intensive enough to warrant doing so without dragging the game along for too long? Not every game can sell like MGS4, and in fact almost all games cannot.

yea, and there is a Noby Noby Boy Multiplayer update coming soon.

So are we moving on from Noby Noby Boy then? Because it's going to take too long to get to mars?

Lookin forward to the next game, I really enjoy these games even if they initially start of with alot of W's T's and F's

OK, I am going to do something that I scold others for doing ... but would it not make more sense (and be more interesting) to do a Katamari game for the Wii?

I think it is great that the PS3 is getting an HD makeover of the original great game. But given how poorly the most recent entrant into this series sold on the Xbox 360, and given that this is basically a re-release of an old game, how well will it sell?

This sounds like what Nintendo is doing with some of its old GC games (motion: Wii as HD: PS3). And those are selling well, but not incredibly, on an install base that is 2x what it was before (of course, BC makes it less necessary to pick up the game again).

Just a though -- maybe Namco can show some Katamari love to the Wii this generation. It already has on the Xbox 360 and is doing it on the PS3.

Mike from Morgantown

Notice I refrained from saying that kiddie games don't sell on the PS3.