Silver (not gold) get Beautiful Katamari demo

by Dustin Burg { Jan 31st 2008 at 11:15AM }

Yesterday, a new Beautiful Katamari demo released to Europe, New Zealand and Australia's XBLM (the same demo the US received back in August), but there seems to be a problem. Gold Live members don't have access to the demo, but silver members do. Oopsy.

This demo release goes in direct contrast to Microsoft's XBLM membership rule where silver subscribers get free XBLM downloads a week after gold subscribers. You know, since a gold subscription costs moola. But, we guess, Beautiful Katamari is all about the silver, snubbing the gold and does what it wants. Or someone in charge of the Marketplace flipped the wrong switch, thus locking out gold subscribers. See what you get when you pay for Xbox Live? Have you learned your lesson yet?

Tags: beautiful-katamari, europe, namco, xblm

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

J @ Jan 31st 2008 11:22AM

"See what you get when you pay for Xbox Live?"

Yes.

"Have you learned your lesson yet?"

No...

EMOruffino @ Jan 31st 2008 1:53PM

ZEBRA NINER @ Jan 31st 2008 11:27AM

Hahaha! Oh man... Failure yet again.

You know, instead of penalizing Silver members by giving them things late, I think MS should reward GOLD members by giving them FREEBIES. You know, a gamer pic or theme here and there.

ZEBRA NINER @ Jan 31st 2008 11:31AM

You know, I bought this game for my GF and she LOVES it. Does anyone know if there are plans to release more Katamari games?

wtfmate? @ Jan 31st 2008 12:10PM

Does anyone know where I can find a girlfriend that LOVES video games? haha

Synergistic @ Jan 31st 2008 12:54PM

@wtfmate?

They're not typically found, they're made.

Tony @ Jan 31st 2008 11:39AM

If you have a PS2 and you haven't already gotten the two KD games on there, those are your best bet. They're significantly better than BK on the 360, in my opinion.

Other than that, there's no news on the series future.

ZEBRA NINER @ Jan 31st 2008 11:52AM

Thanks Tony. I haven't been able to turn on the PS2 since I upgraded to an HDTV. The graphics look pretty rough!

Maurice M @ Jan 31st 2008 12:13PM

Well we're talking about a game that was never about graphics so much as art style. The game does not look significantly better on 360 technically and it looks the same artistically. I think most people would be fine with the 360 version if they didn't own the PS2 versions. Myself, I own both PS2 games, and chose to pass on BK (360) and M&MK (PSP).

ZEBRA NINER @ Jan 31st 2008 12:20PM

Well, I'm just saying that all my PS2 games look crappy on a 57" tv.

mattclarkie @ Jan 31st 2008 1:34PM

I agree with the above post stating that instead of delaying Silver subs getting content for 1 week. They should instead give us Gold subs some freebies, especially us in the UK who never get anything free apart from the Undertow, and the Live is 5ive Carcassone.