It's not a bad dream. Namco's Official Katamari Damacy homepage has announced that the team behind both the original game and its sequel, We Love Katamari, has been dissolved, and that no sequels have been planned.
There is hope for Katamari fans, however, as the page does mention that 'Professor Katamari' (likely Keita Takahashi, the creator of Katamari Damacy) is currently working on a new game design, though not with the core Katamari Damacy team. "You don't roll things up, or get bigger, but you might find it interesting anyway."
Me and My Katamari, the PSP version of Katamari Damacy releases next week, and is the last announced game in the series. The PSP game was done without the direct supervision of Takahashi, which shows that Namco is not above franchising an IP out to death without the help of its original creator.
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