First it was assumed to be, as its predecessors had all been, a Sony exclusive. Then, it was announced as being available for the Xbox 360 as well. Then it was available for all platforms. Then, horrifyingly, it was just Xbox 360 and possibly Wii. Apparently Namco Bandai's latest website update puts PS3 back on the menu for Beautiful Katamari. Will they ever stop playing with me this way?

I'm concerned, as I am with all cross-platform games that include the Wii, that the game won't take advantage of HD. It is listed as 720p, which seems somewhat ridiculous, since the game's style lends itself to a far lower than average polygon count. I'd assume, not knowing the slightest bit of what I'm talking about, that this would make 1080p reasonably easy on the graphics hardware. . So why limit yourself, Bandai? I just hope that cross-platform issues due to inclusion of the Wii aren't dumbing down the graphics on this title.

And, as with all non-PS3-exclusives, I suspect that this game won't take advantage of the Blu-ray Disc to add ridiculous amounts of content. Though, to be fair, I think game developers haven't really gone down that road yet even for games that are PS3 exclusive. Warhawk, the only game I've actually purchased on BD for the PS3, comes in at a whopping 850MB, leaving the BD approxiamtely 98.3% empty. I guess Lair put a ton of texture data on their disc, but the game was such a disaster that it hardly matters.

Update: Just to prove my point, Bandai has now removed PS3 and Wii from the list of targets for Beautiful Katamari, so we're back to the wholly unholy position of an Xbox 360 exclusive. How sad is that? Why have you forsaken me, Bandai?