And, were I a game developer – or even a community manager for a game developer – I’d be wary of publicly hovering on news topics about titles my company was producing. It feels somewhat predatory.

Good luck with the game.

But aye, I reckon it’s a nice sneaky bit of association by disassociation. Hopefully it’ll come back to sting ‘em in the arse when both games finally arrive.

I wish we had the foresight to be so devious! In reality, I’ve seen that association made a number of times on NeoGAF already, well before this interview hit the net.

I’m not sure anyone was making LBP comparisons with Banjo. So, if they publicly tell us they’re not competing it introduces a sense of association in the minds of the public.

It’s like when Nintendo kept on going on about how they weren’t competing with Sony or Microsoft. They kept denying it in order to strengthen the association in gamer’s minds.

He is a bear, isn’t he?

Anyway yes, its very silly. I never got on with Banjo in the first place. Not one character was all that appealing, in fact Banjo himself just rubbed up the wrong way. A retarded durring bear is not my idea of a great main character.

They both have completely different focus.

Now…show me the bit in BK3 where you can create something of the scale of Howl’s Moving Castle, in 3D, and power that around the landscape and I’d probably say it’s a comparable product to LBP in terms of just how creative you can get.

One thing keeps coming back to me about Banjo – that bloody annoying object cap in Viva Pinata. I’d still lay even money that there’s one in the vehicle creation bit of BK3 too…

Banjo is simply based around making vechicles though, where as LBP is about creating anything you can imagine.

But I agree – there’s really not much comparison between the two.