The man behind Katamari, Keita Takahashi has lifted the lid on why he left earlier on this year.

After what he saw as a mediocre showing at E3, Takahashi had become disillusioned with the games as a whole and with colleagues leaving to work on other projects he felt his time had come.

Takahashi-san told Eurogamer: "The reason why I quit Namco was because I started to feel like I didn't belong there any more. The games I was making were not necessarily the best-selling ones. I realised Namco was, as a business, going down a bit."

He added: "Also, my colleagues were leaving to do another project. I started to feel like I didn't belong there any more."

By Ewan Aiton