Katamari rolls up half a million sales in Japan

*cough* 'Nuff said...

The first katamari grabbed me by the balls and shook me around till i didnt know if i was a man or a woman. loved that game.

it should not be legal to sell a game that's the addictive equivalent of crack

I'm not too sure about Me & My Katamari, but Both original and WE

good to see a game that is original (albeit most likely concieved under the influence) and fun to do well, as oposed to the games endorsed heavily by huge corporate conglomerates without an ounce of originality in it.

Not bad

I'm glad that some gamers nowadays still buy games that are original and not games that have been copied about a billion times. Congratulations Namco!

Half a million copies! They must be making money rite now

500,000 copies for a genre that, when released, probably about 0 people knew about, that's very good considering that err...opinion o.o;;

half a million...

Hmmmm, Katamari is addicting. I picked it up and was like meh at first, now I am like must roll!

Way to go guys !! Show them that different and innovative CAN be highly successful !!! And to think that EA's VP quoted Katamari Damacy as an example of an innovative game being a commercial failure... 8-|

It's no Halo or Half Life sales, but it's still good.

I have both Katamari Damacy and We Love Katamari and there is definately an improvement over time. We Love Kataarmi is bigger, longer, and more open than the original which is definately to the benefit of the developers. My hat is off to Namco for making a game so original. I definately hope they make a Katamari game for PS3.

500,000 for three games, one of which has been out for over 18 months... can't say I'm overly impressed. I know why they're celebrating. Non-genre games rarely sell over a 100,000 units after all. I'd be more interested to see what the sales of the original vs. the sequel are though. I know the original did over 300,000 copies, but I'm not sure on the final number. Really what matters here is the momentum of the game. How well did We Love Katamari do. If its' sales surpass the original then it's a good sign. Otherwise it's uniqueness is wearing off and it doesn't bode all that well for the series.

Congrats to the gamers.

That's super cool

I LOVE KATAMARI MORE THAN ANY OF YOU!!!! lol jk

Yay for good games selling half a million copies!

The japanese market are huge fans of simple, interesting looking games they can just relax and play while on a bus or when they are just relaxing during lunch and these games do that for them. Doesn't exactly need to be a killer app handhelds do well. Expect Microsoft's handheld to do extremely well over in japan. Should start hearing about the microsoft handheld around late 2006 early 2007.

I don't understand everyones love for Katamari. It's good, but it's not that good. You push a ball that picks up stuff.... to the sound of some of the most annoying music EVER!!! I'm glad you all like it, I'm just not sure why.

Should probably "get into the game" and buy those...

500,000 is impressive, hats off to Namco for taking the chance on the first one and then following thru. Gaming could use more off the wall ideas. People don't want to just play anothe clone of yet another mindless FPS. Nintendo is doing very well with their offbeat games, it would be nice of more in the industry started to notice and take heed.

Here in the US Madden for PS2 sold over 2.9 million!!!!!!!!! W007 go capitalism!!!!W007.

sweet, id like to see what they could do with this game on PS3

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Half a million? HOLY CRAP.