I love the game, but I am impressed.

Thinking about it, most of the girls I have put the beta in the hands of get it straight away.

But they are girls of my age 18/19. Brought up during gaming.

What, like every Mario game is about a fat Italian plumber? Hello?

“It’s got a casual aesthetic but the concept itself is actually quite difficult to grasp. You mum wouldn’t play it, simply because it’d completely confuse her…..Three levels of depth, hitting R1 to hold onto things, “the community,” all that stage-creation stuff… You have to be pretty knowledgable to “get” all of that. It’s actually very complex.”

Yet The Wife, who until last week had never picked up a games controller a single time in her 34 years, has spent over 20 hours during the last seven days playing LBP, often without me. She learnt the controls after a single viewing of the relevant Fry-voiced training videos (so much easier to understand than a traditional controller map image). And why would it be hard to remember than one particular button has one particular action when it comes to this game?

Becuase why isn’t the 360 selling Wii numbers then?

360 might be cheap, but it’s perception isn’t casual. NXE or not.

There’s equivalent in sales, but none of the consoles are actually a causual/hardcore hybrid. YET.

And LBP kind of relied on that, that casuals have access to it, and hardcore have access to it.

Anyway.. 3 Days on [patchy] sale, where the userbase is half the size of the 360, I am impressed it’s even on the chart.

I am a bit perplexed by dead space @ number 10 though, it’s wonderful game, but it only managed to sell less than 200k.

Humanity is scum, and now deservedly faces extinction. Forgive us, Sack Boy – we know not what we do!

Dear chap – the problem with the entertainment industry is that it’s the entertainment industry.

On the PS2 it was one of Sonys biggest brands and the new one isn’t too bad.

It’s a bit ‘Yeah! Were americans and we have guns! Die terrorists!’ but that aside, it’s quite a decent multiplayer shooter!

“Probably 99% of humanity dies overnight, but what’s left is going to be so amazingly creative and clever that we’ll have a better World because of it. And the clever ones can simply take care of those too poor to have any interest in entertainment.”

I’d you offer my email address but I suspect the information would be misused if I publicised it here.

LBP’s failure makes Esha hate humanity!

LOL!

What I’d like to see: See that every human alive has a kill-switch in their brain, and then activate them whenever someone buys something that isn’t entirely original (game, movie, and book alike).

The end result? Probably 99% of humanity dies overnight, but what’s left is going to be so amazingly creative and clever that we’ll have a better World because of it. And the clever ones can simply take care of those too poor to have any interest in entertainment.

We’d have achieved Planet Love at that point, humanity needs a good catastrophe every now and then.

So… come on, there has to be a mad Scientist out there somewhere who could achieve this! Chop, chop.

“Why not though? Isn’t the whole point, the whole concept behind the idea is that it is for everyone? Hasn’t Sony been saying that this is the game in its arsenal that will have mass appeal?”

And this post covers this here as well, the problem is that most people will buy a franchise or a sequel before they’ll look at something really original.

It’s a horrid thing when one’s own race is such a bleeding disgrace that it makes one feel sick. If it wasn’t for these people, not even capitalism would work. And yet they keep throwing their money at new football games, uninspired sequels, Cake Mania, Match-Three, and expansions for The Sims.

And similar to you skipping ads, I detest advertising in general, so I make a point of channel surfing every time there’s an ad break until my program comes back on.

But I do remember thinking to myself that Sony were trying quite hard with LBP, cos I kept seeing Sackboy everywhere outside.

The other day I even saw two kids purring over an LBP ad in a free mag that they both had one each of, and I even started to relate to how much I used to love Mario when I was their age.

Maybe indicative of Sony thinking the UK revolves around London then. Have you seen any of the TV ads actually aired?

The big casual successes on PlayStation are things like SingStar, Buzz!, and so on, which anyone can immediately grasp and play.

Three levels of depth, hitting R1 to hold onto things, “the community,” all that stage-creation stuff… You have to be pretty knowledgable to “get” all of that. It’s actually very complex.

You’re probably right about the Wii thing, though. I reckon it’d need to be much simpler to hit the Wii sweet spot, however.

I was saying something similar to that before. I reckon if LBP was on the Wii it would probably end up as one of the best selling games of all time.

EDIT
If the Wii had a decent online system, that is…

LBP straddles the hardcore and casual spaces on a hardcore machine. It’s good, but it’s a square peg in a round hole. See also Viva Pinata.

Why? Because it’s a shooter, it was a significant step up technically and it’s about saying, “sweet,” “shit” and murdering aliens with chainsaws.

LittleBigPlanet is about a small cloth toy. Go figure.