Horrible Katamari News

[OzCatter]

An update has happened on the Official Katamari Website. The update says in Japanese that the website is closing and the Katamari team is being disbanded. The PSP version will be the last Katamari game.

http://www.psxextreme.com/scripts/news2/new.asp?newID=3663

 

Katamari No More

 

Before all the hub-bub of the Business Brief, we brought you a story about the official Katamari website, Katamari on the Web, being shut down in three days. Well, that time has transpired and what are we left with? Not a mention of a new Katamari, but instead a goodbye note of sorts heralding the shutting of the website and the dissolution of the team behind everybody's favorite series.

 

It would appear that, at least in the foreseeable, there will be no more games in the franchise (the last of which is the impending Me and My Katamari for PSP releasing later this month), which is a shame because the possibilities for a next-gen adventure would've been insane! Perhaps all is not so bad, though, as we were never meant to get a sequel or a PSP game in the first place. Those came from the demand of gamers and Namco brass.

 

While the Prince may be shelving his magnetic ball of stuff for good, the message also gives us a silver lining: "The Katamari Doctor" (series creator), as they call him, is working on a new game of a different type. It cautions, however, that there will be no rolling around or making large things, so it may not be any fun and would be a waste of your time to anticipate it.

 

 

NO!

[SharkTums]

Worst. News. Ever.

[Homer]

F*** Namco... first they scrap the DS version and now they won't do anymore Katamari's.

 

Thats as bad as Nintendo ending Mario or SEGA ending Sonic.

[Erik Johnson]

BOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooooooo! Well at least the PSP version is coming out soon.

[Damien666]

This is such a Darth Vader emo "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!" moment.

 

What a bummer, the series rocked and was such a fun game to play.

[YoshiFan]

Yeah, there was an intereview in Hardcore Gamer magazine a few months ago with the creator of the game and he said he didn't want to make any more games because I think it was something along the lines of the game not being designed to have sequel after sequel. I guess it's similar to Yugi Naka and NiGHTS where he said there would never be a NiGHTS sequel because it could never be as good as the original.

 

On a side note, 1up.com kind of gave Me and My Katamari a bad review of 7.0 and said:

"By the end of the game, you will have replayed the same six ministages half a dozen times apiece. That's about 30 minutes of unique content, chopped into pieces and pasted together to give the illusion of length. "

 

Doesn't sound like the greatest way for the series to end.