LittleBigPlanet delayed, says “speculation” (update)

Damn.

By the way, I thought it was just one retail? What other ones have done the same?

I literally just heard a rumour about a potential delay. I don’t know how much truth there is to it but it seems to boil down to an oversight of, for want of a better phrase, biblical proportions.

Let’s just say it’d make the LocoRoco / PSP “White is coming” stuff look like NOTHING by comparison.

Oh dear.

Zavvi emailed people claiming this yesterday, but I thought there’d been a “whoops, sorry, we messed up” email since then?

^^

Yeah.

Rubbish, people have got Euro copies already on GAF.

I take it my chances of walking into a shop and buying it next week are out the window?

Whoops, no. Wait. I’m behind the times. Seems the rumours are gathering again. Some rumour about a fuck up and recall now, I see.

So that’s Zavvi, The Hut and ShopTo with new dates. Oh dear.

Oh dear.

Keep watching.

To add rumor to rumor : a friend of mine has been told by a man in the distribution that It was delayed due a bug that could make those copies unplayable .

Dunno if this is true or it’s just a an excuse or a fairy tale

Let’s just hear what sony says.

/watches

Oh dear, oh dear.

I’ll ring my local Danish shops and ask if they’ve heard anything.

Interesting rumour.

Gamereactor has given Little Big Planet the ultimate vote of confidence our highest grade, but as the release date is only days away we hear that the game will be delayed. While just an unconfirmed rumour at this point (from a source we tend to believe), it would appear that a song on the soundtrack includes lines that could be offensive to people with certain religious beliefs.

The same source claims the game will be delayed by three weeks worldwide, our Nordic distributor has confirmed the delay although they did not wish to elaborate on the reasons behind it. If this is true it is going to be a costly affair for Sony who have been banking on Little Big Planet to kick off their holiday sales with plenty of advertising to back the release.

Delayed for a song ? Seems weird

Hmmm delayed and sony in one sentence? Cant be true…..lol

Guess the religion

/pre-orders Fable 2

I’m guessing Fable 2 will get a mini boost in initial sales from multi-platform owners.

Gah! Religion, the curse of the 21st century.

“Keep watching”

I’m guessing then you know there’s something in this? Bastards, next Friday was my day off :/

Zoinks!

Danish retail has the physical media in store waiting to be sold on Wednesday.

Should be “Religion, the curse of all centurys”

If Gamereactor is right. I expect the delay is not to avoid offending, but to avoid giving the game a higher age rating.

It’s not that kind of offensive, Harry. Check the “Zoinks!” link.

re: Blerks link: I hope they just do what the poster suggested and release an online patch.

MVP’s on the SCEE website already have their copy so it can’t be delayed =S

Gah! Religion, the curse of the 21st century.

QFT. This is ridiculous .

If that really is it, then I imagine they’ll issue a recall. You can’t guarantee everyone will get the patch.

Utterly ludicrous.

Made two updates.

So we’re basically talking about a full recall then? Wow… it’s insane what you have to look for these days.

Who said that there’s going to be a recall?

What a disaster. Poor old Media Molecule.

I just got an e-mail from Game claiming the date has changed to October 08.
It was Oct 24 08, now just Oct 08.
It did strike me that the beta was quite late and the beta level competition voting was also quite late as well.

But there’s a lot of people claiming they already have a copy, and are posting pics on the net.

Who is telling the truth?

The game’s at retail, Eregol. Loads of people are playing it already.

Those people will also be recalled and ‘altered’.

stop bitching at everything muslims. when you guys go somewhere you make your own rules and dont give a rats a*s about the culture where you establish yourselves…so why the hell should we push back a game cuz of you suckers?

I doubt very much that there’s any truth to the idea that they’re recalling the game because of this.

We have someone complaining about a song in the game, then the game gets delayed and people start throwing wobblies all over the place.

Where are the facts that say that the game is being recalled because of this?

Oh dear, that PlayStation forum adds an air of inevitability to proceedings…this will wind up arriving right next to Gears 2 won’t it >:(

@ airdom

Shut up you muppet.

I’m a Muslim, and I know that you wouldn’t say that to my face, so you should just keep your offensive little mouth closed until you know the facts.

Prat.

Here’s a exclusive for you before I put it on my site, dont say I am not good to you Pat

UPDATE 3: It actually may not just be down to a religious song and all that, it actually may fall down to an internal problem in SCEE considering the moderating tools for LBP.

It’s a bug in them or something. It’s a small one but it could end up being a big problem.

Although I was told this weeks ago so it may have developed into a big problem now.

Oh and change the pic from the NXE XD

Hard to tell… you can’t rely on a patch to take out objectionable content because not everyone has the internet. It needs to be taken out on the disc.

That’s assuming this is exactly what’s going on.
(edit – which it appears from the post above, it is not)

If it was a bug in code, it’d be dead easy to patch, surely? They wouldn’t have to delay – you’d only need the moderation tools to work if the people were online, which means you could force a patch on them.

True but thats what I heard.

I even had trouble remember the exact quotes of it, just remembered the context of it.

CTRL+f5, Johnny.

Well, I guess we’ll see. Or we won’t, because they probably won’t tell us exactly why it’s being delayed. If it is.

@patlike
If that’s the case, why haven’t I been e-mailed to say my product has been shipped?
Instead I’ve got a mail saying the release date has changed.

Because it’s been delayed

What is more important: religion or videogames
Is there even a difference?

Deep.