I personally own LBP, and I have to admit it is by far the best game I have ever played. Of course, everyone has a different taste, and I cannot speak for everyone, but LBP is a very full game, that if played “correctly”, can provide way more freedom than most other games. The only reason the marketing didn’t go as well as expected was probably because of the delays, patches, and the lack of PS3 owners.

NPD is only U.S. sales. LittleBigPlanet is #19 on the list of best selling PS3 games of all time and has sold about a million copies worldwide. It is by no means a flop, but it also probably didn’t sell as well as Sony and the fanboys expected. You know what else I don’t see on that list? Your point.

1. Gears of War 2 – Xbox 360 – Microsoft – 1.56 million
2. Call of Duty: World at War – Xbox 360 – Activision – 1.41 million
3. Wii Play w/ remote – Wii – Nintendo – 796K
4. Wii Fit – Wii – Nintendo – 697K
5. Mario Kart – Wii – Nintendo – 637K
6. Call of Duty: World at War – PS3 – Activision – 597K
7. Guitar Hero: World Tour – Wii – Activision – 475K
8. Left 4 Dead – Xbox 360 – EA – 410K
9. Resistance 2 – PS3 – Sony – 385K
10. Wii Music – Wii – Nintendo – 297K

Don’t seem to see Little Big Planet in there at all do you? Jackass

It will reach a million sales no doubt, but a million sales only in America by the end of November? Not a chance. It’s got 2 weeks to sell about 600,000 copies and it’s not going to hit a million in that time at a rate of 40k a week.

Our commenting rules mainly are intended to discourage hate speech, and combined with “debate intelligently”, our goal is to have a comment section that does not consist of people bashing each other back and forth using racial slurs and providing no actual arguments.

I understand what you are getting at, but swearing is allowed, though it gets flagged if excessive and must be approved by an editor. Also, calling fanboys “dickheads” isn’t hate speech, it’s justice.

And thanks for your support, Whaler.

Anyways. good article Mr. Landis

Although I really do believe that basing a games quality or how good it is on how well it sells is a very ignorant thing to do. I mean saying a game sucks when you haven’t played it is wrong but saying something like I am just not interested in the kind of gameplay LBP offers is cool because everyone can have there opinion.

I have a PS3 and bought LPB and have enjoyed playing it. I found it fun and while it isn’t immersive and doesn’t have realistic graphics. I like it because it’s different and fun.

It is just too bad Fanboy’s have to do things like I mentioned above. It is a very sad life they must live.

It was fun for a few days but much like the Wii, definitely nothing I would keep, glad I rented it.

Sony’s 3rd party games have been under whelming this year to say the least. Socom failed, R2 failed, LBP failed, Motorstorm: PR failed . Hme will fail, should’ve failed last year but they’re delaying the inevitable. Last year was a better year for quality titles like Uncharted and R&C as far as Sony’s 3rd party devs go.

So much for “year of the playstation 3” claim, lol. But at least all of our games are in 1080P…oh wait ..lol.

Anyways….in response to almost everyone who’s attacking Dan. You need to stop he said plain and clear in his article that he wasn’t going to bash the ps3 or LBP and he DIDN’T. Just because he has a 360 and/or prefers the 360 over the ps3, so flippin what? Deal with it that doesn’t make him a fanboy. Seriously is this how every article about a 360 or ps3 is going to be?

You made a perfect prediction Dan :?

blah, bluh,bluh,bluh, blah…..

In other words, I don’t believe Sony got as many Hardcore gamers to turncoat and try LBP as they were hoping for.

shyguy, I’m impressed that you could see my blatant 360 fanboyism through all that defending of LittleBigPlanet. Good job.

Abaddon, you are most likely correct in your conspiracy theory. Nintendo is evil!

spriggers, I’m glad someone else in the world can see the simple logic behind this article, despite my ranting. Thank you.

Desperado, thank you for the support, and your insight into the hype machine and fanboy retardedness makes me happy that my friends aren’t like that.

Gavin, I did not insult or belittle everyone, I insulted and belittled fanboys and stupid “journalists”. I don’t know why any normal person would complain about that. If you want to compare releases, you really should compare a release on PS3 to another release on PS3. Likely every big release on 360 will be higher than PS3, so you can’t compare its relative success by pitting it against a 360 game, especially one as huge as Gears. Besides, the main point was that LBP’s sales were affected by the delay, and it’s only logical to assume it would sell less copies in 4 days than it would in 11 days. I was bitching about how other websites were spinning the numbers and making completely asinine statements.

kill-halo, good luck with that. I hope you get your money back since you were so unsatisfied, and I’m sure there will be someone out there that wants it.

Greg, I don’t need a hug, but I will accept one.

Morisato06, thank you for your support.

SweetSeka, I’m not sure I remember seeing you comment here before, unless maybe you did so under a different name. Anyhow, it’s nice to know that you can see through my butt-tonguing cocktardedness and read an article for what it’s worth. Congratulations.

Oh well. Good job.

I like the game regardless. The number of sales doesn’t really affect my opinion of the game.

Gears sold over two million in two days and with the hype that the net built around LBP I think it was fair to expect at least 500k in sales over the first couple of days.

It isn’t doing as well as expected and to say that this is purely down to it being out 4 days is a little naive to be honest.

I guess Allen must be pretty clueless about the world around him, Elementary school kids are saying “fuck” all the time these days, gosh dernit, kids these days. Also I’m not quite sure how using the word “lame” makes one unprofessional…

Anyway,
I don’t own a PS3 but I’ve been interested in Little Big Planet for awhile now, but people really expected it to do well?
That’s… so damn stupid…
I mean it certainly hasn’t done bad, but really how could people get their expectations up so high?
“I like the game, so does my friend. THAT SETTLES IT, THIS GAME IS GOING TO SELL MILLIONS!!!”

LittleBigPlanet will sell 1M in North American easily, another $M in Europe, and probably 200k in Japan. Not bad really. Not a Gears type of release, but not even close to a flop.

My opinion is…Nintendo did it,Reggie knew that LBP was a threat to Nintendo after reading a link in N4G named “SAcBoy,tEh NeW MaRIO? Lolz!”,then he planned to spread rumours about Islamic heresy about it to cripple its worldwide launch and ultimately the image of the game,but then got involved in a retarded action plot reminiscent of 1995’s Cristopher Lambert mediocre action film “Hunted”(tm),dying in japan 11/04/08,and is actually replaced by a smiling tanned cyborg.

My point was that I didn’t want my brother to read isults such as “d**khead”,that’s all,the rest of your article is great!

Anyways,I have to go,cheerz!

If that wasn’t your point, then I apologize that still don’t know. But thank you for your comments and happy holidays to you too.