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LittleBigPlanet Would Be A Clear Number 1 Any Other Time of Year

Sony's head of public relations for the UK, David Wilson, has told GamesIndustry.biz that the company is pleased with LittleBigPlanet's retail performance and expects the title to perform better due to "word of mouth".

The Media Molecule title went on sale on November 5, and entered the UK's All Format chart in fourth place, the same week as the company's MotorStorm: Pacific Rift came in at 29. The following week both titles dropped in the charts to 19 and 35 respectively.

"We're really pleased with the initial reaction to LittleBigPlanet - it has been our highest scoring game ever I believe with a Metacritic score of 95 and a huge list of 10/10s or 100 per cent scores," explained Wilson.

"We are also pleased with its commercial performance. In other times of the year it would be a clear number one - so you have to put the chart in context.

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thor - 406 days 3 hours ago

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It upsets me that so many people are going to miss out on such a fantastic game. Motorstorm 2, also, doesn't deserve to be overlooked. Why would you buy _another_ guitar hero, _another_ call of duty, _another_ version of fifa and not these fantastic games?

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Gam71 - 406 days ago

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Because peoples choices vary.

They might be fantastic to you but not to someone else.

Maybe Guitar hero has more appeal to the wider public.

But you keep bashing people for not liking what you like and being stupid enough to have their own opinions on what works for them.

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jlytle1234 - 405 days 22 hours ago

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i wouldn't let it upset you. Not everyone can have good taste.

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WANNA GET HIGH - 405 days 22 hours ago

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Well not every one wants LBP.I got a ps3 but im not buying the game,it dose not appeal to every one like most of u think.I will rather have RESISTANCE 2,KILLZONE2..E.T.C Yes i like shooters, u can call them mindless but i dont care, that is just my fav type of game.And i dont want motorstorm2 either,il rather have midnight club.

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Fishy Fingers - 406 days 2 hours ago

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Christmas should be LBPs time to shine. Although it'll still require advertising.

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The Matrix - 406 days ago

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Well yeah it might be # 1 any other time of the year but it's hard to be # 1 when you come out within a couple weeks of 50 games including Resistance 2, Dead Space, Fable 2, Gears 2, Bioshock PS3, Fallout 3, Left 4 Dead and a bunch of others.

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Saigon - 405 days 23 hours ago

2.2 - I agree with you

but people have to remember that most to all sony blockbuster games are word of mouth...

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scoobysnacks - 406 days 2 hours ago

3 - Agreed . . .

LBP is an absolute must buy, no matter what your age. There's something about it that even though it has cute graphics and might look like just a kids game, is one of the best platform games, probably ever. With its construction tools, it offers almost endless variation and enjoyment. I can see now that i've got it and tried it (must spend more time on it, MS2 some other games released before it came out, have taken up a lot of my time), why it has all the high scores and a multitude of 10's. Once those other games have been completed, its back to LBP.

Motorstorm 2 is also an excellent game. IMO it should have received a score of 8 minimum across the board. It improves on the original in almost every department, plus the excellent online mode, and now four player split-screen, whats not to like?

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ReBurn - 406 days 2 hours ago

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I don't know how I feel about these comments in the article. Any other time of the year high quality games are few and far between since major releases are typically saved for the more lucrative holiday season. So it's easy to do well then. It's only my opinion, but the real test of quality is if a game can do well this time of year.

It's not easy to stand out with all of the competition in the market looking for holiday sales, so only the games that are really special shine in Q4. We really won't know if LBP is one of those games until the registers stop ringing in Q4.

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jlytle1234 - 405 days 22 hours ago

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you couldn't be further from the truth. Wii's are obviously going to dominate the sales in consoles. Twilight is going to rake it in at the box office. It also happens to be the #1 album on billboard right now. Reality tv shows always do well in the ratings. high school musical 1,2,3. Pokemon.
garbage. all of it. its been this way for years, maybe decades. good marketing turns any POS into a goldmine.

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Jenzo - 406 days 1 hour ago

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Translation: "LittleBigPlanet can't cope with the competition".

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Fishy Fingers - 406 days 1 hour ago

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In sales perhaps not. But thats like me saying, Halo or Gears can't compete with Ninten-dogs or Wii Sports. Just because Wii Sports sold more doesn't instantly mean it's a better game does it.

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Jenzo - 406 days ago

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It makes them better marketed games. LittleBigPlanet must be published by retards since the game idea should practically sell itself.

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Bathyj - 405 days 23 hours ago

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Well thats all we look for in a game Jenzo, good marketing.

And why do keep thinking sometimes that you're a actual real gamer, and then you keep saying stupid things like that? Did I give you too much credit, or am I just a bad judge of charactor.

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jlytle1234 - 405 days 22 hours ago

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"It makes them better marketed games. LittleBigPlanet must be published by retards since the game idea should practically sell itself."

no, they did their job publishing it and they did a great job. if anyone is to blame its consumers for bad taste.
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Yes i blame consumers. There are tons of things in this world that are popular and have no business even existing. example: reality tv
likewise there are things that should still exist, but poor consumer taste destroyed them. example: futurama and firefly

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Jenzo - 405 days 22 hours ago

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Yeah, let's blame the consumer lol! Are you serious?

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Jenzo - 405 days 21 hours ago

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I'd rather have reality-tv than religion though.

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jlytle1234 - 405 days 16 hours ago

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there are some bad things that come with religion, but you can also find hope, peace, and love.

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die_fiend - 406 days 1 hour ago

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The above is closer to the mark. It would be number 1 any other time of year? It's been outsold by Fable and Gears. It would be number one if it came out when no other good games were out, is that what he means? It's been smashed for sales by those games. It's not even sold a million yet has it? So it's not even sold that well at all, it would only be number one if the only other game out that month was pong...

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heroicjanitor - 406 days 1 hour ago

6.1 - Get real please.

I have the game and it is awesome. It really deserves to be number 1. The wii is smashing the 360 and ps3 in sales but does that mean it's better? No it just means it was marketed better.

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Sitdown - 405 days 22 hours ago

6.3 - @heroicjanitor

I disagree...I do not feel that the wii was marketed better......it is selling well because of word of mouth and people playing it at a friend's house. With that said, I agree with Kill Crow...it really is not an appropriate comparison to try and make.

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die_fiend - 405 days 22 hours ago

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What do u mean get real? Are you even meant to be replying to me cos ur remarks aren't relevant to what I said. I never said it wasn't a fantastic game, I'm very sure that it is. 'I have the game and it is awesome. It really deserves to be number 1. The wii is smashing the 360 and ps3 in sales but does that mean it's better? No it just means it was marketed better. ' Again, I never said Gears or Fable are better than it, just that it's smashing them in sales. It deserves to be number 1? Well it doesn't have the mass market appeal so whatever u say. I deserve to be rich, but I'm not..How is selling about 0.8 million enough to make it number 1 at any other time of the year? That's complete tripe.

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Firstkn1ghT - 406 days 1 hour ago

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I was completely right about this game. LBP caters to a very small crowd. Most sony fans boasted it was going to be a huge system seller or an easy 10 million sold but again they were wrong. This game will struggle just to hit a million. The truth is most gamers want to play games like Gears or Fable or Resistance.

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strotee - 406 days ago

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I know my efforts are pointless against the likes of you but sequels generally sell better since the name recognition is what sells, not the game itself. Creating new IPs is a risk, that's why Hollywood likes to make another sequel and MS likes to make another Gears or Fable or Sony likes to make another Resistance, etc. Why do you think Nintendo is making another friggen Mario or Metroid or Zelda?

Point is, some one needs to take a risk and invent a new game for us to like or we'll be stuck with just another sequel. Some do well, and others, well, don't. Do you honestly want another Halo, Gears or Fable forever? If so, then I was right, my effort of replying was pointless.

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psycho360 - 405 days 23 hours ago

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What are you talking about? Gears1 was sequel? Resistance was sequel? Dead Space was sequel? I never had Xbox original so for me Fable2, Halo were all were new IP. As most realistic people predicted, LBP was just a 2D platformer disguised in a cool way with level creation facilities. I'm in my 30s and woudn't even want to touch this kind of kiddy game let alone try to create a level. I dint' even like Viva Pinata, for me, coming home from work, i want to lie on my couch and just shoot the hell out of the enemies. No time for kiddy jumping games, or where i need 2-3 hours to create some levels. I even din't try to create any level in FC2. Anyway, for all you kids out there this might be a good game.

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ultimolu - 405 days 22 hours ago

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You tried dude, you tried. :/

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Dragunov - 406 days 1 hour ago

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Bubble up! My last purchases, LBP and MS2, really awesome games. All the retards above can continue playing his mindless shooters over and over again, not everyone have taste in gaming

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Sitdown - 405 days 22 hours ago

8.1 - Is racing games..

really any less mindless than shooters? And was there really the need to label people as retards because their view point is different than yours? What I hear you saying is that SOCOM is mindless and does not require strategy...playing what, 59 other people in Resistance is pretty mindless as well....capture the flag and other modes are mindless?

I guess some people can understand how moving forward in a racing game around tracks you will soon come to know is less mindless than playing a shooter where you have movement in all directions with enemy who can attack you from various angles and sides. Hopefully you catch the sarcasm.

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WANNA GET HIGH - 405 days 22 hours ago

8.2 - Dragunov

Just because peoeple dont want to buy LBP dose not mean there taste is bad.Every one has there opinion and not every one will buy ur fav game.I am not buying LBP but i am buying resistance2.Not every one fell for a cute puppet and not every one finds creating a level fun.U guys should just learn to respect people opinion,its not a must that LBP should be played buy every one.And if it dose not sell like most of u thought it would then to bad.

Y should u care about sales of if people buy the game,u bought it so have fun with it, not every one must like it just because u like it.

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heroicjanitor - 406 days 1 hour ago

9 - I have littlebigplanet

I also have fallout 3 and far cry 2 and Littlebigplanet is the best game of them all

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Skerj - 406 days 1 hour ago

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Delaying the game the week of its launch when they could have just patched it was a major f*ck up.

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Firstkn1ghT - 406 days 1 hour ago

10.1 - LMAO

That's the biggest joke of an excuse yet. You really think that a measly 7 days was enough to lose "millions" of potential buyers??? I guess sony fans are running out of excuses.

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dale1 - 405 days 23 hours ago

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i thought far cry was going to be big look at the sales of that and its a multi

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helrazor343 - 405 days 23 hours ago

12 - I think it'll still sell more...

as it is one of the games, that I also am looking forward to, but since I only have so much money that I can throw at my favorite past-time, I'll just have to wait to receive it as an X-mas gift (I'm sure others are in the same boat as me). I agree that Sony needs to advertise better, but word-of-mouth is still generally positive.

Why wish for games like this to fail, I wouldn't care what system it came out on or who developed it, games and ideas like these benefit the whole industry. It's a creative concept that when pushed and developed further can enhance many different genre of games.

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SmokedOut - 405 days 23 hours ago

13 - Excuses.... Excuses.....

If a game is great it shouldnt matter what time of the year it is, you better make sure your game is better than the competitions or its gonna sell like LBP has, slowly...

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jlytle1234 - 405 days 23 hours ago

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so by your logic, wii sports is about 4million away from being the greatest game of all time.

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ultimolu - 405 days 23 hours ago

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Played a friend's levels last night. They were absolutely adorable.
Definitely playing again tonight, after I wage war against some Necromorphs.

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jlytle1234 - 405 days 23 hours ago

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I think sony doesn't market games and the ps3 very well in america and that might have some effect on sales. but...

Also some games have legs and sale a bunch, but over a long period of time. LBP isnt really a mainstream game and even as fantastic as it is, its taken a back seat to resistance 2 for now on my ps3. I occassionally whip it out and play the newest levels and download the latest costumes. I also have ideas running in the back of my head for levels i want to make, but want to plan them on paper first.

Sales dont always translate into good or bad product. Summer blockbusters tend to way outsell the oscar movies, but one is a masterpiece and the other mindless entertainment.
The good thing is sony can tell this is a masterpiece and completely supports it despite lower than expected sales. Just like the brilliance of team ico games.

you can lead a horse to water, but you cant make him drink.

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DJ - 405 days 22 hours ago

16 - Wow, there's a bunch of LBP haters on here. Jealousy is cute.

It's a great game that's gaining popularity, and is definitely a perfect Christmas gift. All Sony needs to do is continue the advertisements for this game and Word-of-Mouth will take care of the rest.

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Shortstop - 405 days 22 hours ago

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I think it just comes down to this:

So many great games of the type of games I know I will enjoy
VERSUS
a new type of game I never really was interested in and I just personally can't see the appeal of it.

I've only got so much money to spend and I went with Fallout 3. I can't really get over the fact that LBP just seems like a kid's game to me. I hope to try it out someday and be surprised by it, but that could be a few months down the road. I know I enjoyed platformers as a kid, but at some point, platformers became boring to me.

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peanut7990 - 405 days 22 hours ago

18 - a must buy

i had the choice between left 4 dead, and litlle big planet, i already have enough shooters , so i went for LBP, and i was amazed, i played it for 2-3 hours then created a user profile on my ps3 for my wife so she could start her own game, she didn't come to bed till 2am!!!!!!!!!!!the possibilities with this game and psn, with user created content are going to be amazing, just wait and see, and just so everyone knows i like both systems, cause i own them both.

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IWentBrokeForGaming - 405 days 20 hours ago

19 - Sony's advertising sucks for LBP

and it don't do it justice. But there is also too much about the game to cram into a 60 second commercial. I personally really enjoy the game, one of the best fresh expierences to be had this gen. It's nice to have a new IP when everything else is generic, been there... done that!

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socomnick - 405 days 17 hours ago

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This is a niche game. It caters to the Weeaboo Ps3 fans who endulge in anime, hentai, and speak 1 or 2 sentences of Japanese.

This kiddy game would have never been number 1 no matter what time of the year it came out, a flop all year long.

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Fishy Fingers - 406 days 1 hour ago

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LOL.... nice grammar "Boku want fail", well looks like MS have made it to accommodate it's wishes.

EDIT: Nice Edit PP, shame it was a little late.

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Magic_The_Celt - 406 days ago

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Lmfao pp proves his stupidity

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ultimolu - 405 days 23 hours ago

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Good God, you cannot be this stupid. :/

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Silogon - 406 days 1 hour ago

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People don't want to sit around and create levels.. They want to play them. If they wanted to create some levels they could go to school for it. Face it, not every gamer wants to make games. I don't...

LBP is geard towards a small group of gamers and that's that. Now, it could've been geared towards a much larger group of gamers but Sony didn't want to let go of some advertising dollars to make sure that happened.

LBP tanked...Sony hasn't even sold 300,000 ps3 units this holiday season... Gamers don't care about Home... and it's all sony's fault.

Remember that.

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Magic_The_Celt - 406 days ago

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Dude you never know what your talking about

remember, in LBP you cant even upload levels!!! according to your dumba$$

lets get it right

YOU dont want to make levels, you couldnt know less what other gamers want its just you once again. go fail somewhere else

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foxeye13 - 405 days 23 hours ago

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''People don't want to sit around and create levels.. They want to play them.''

How do you explain the crazy amount of levels that are already created then??? :| Or are they all made by Sony themselves??? Another conspiracy maybe??? Or heck, they all where made by 2 or 3 gamers who are making them 24/7 and have nothing else to do in life...

I know I am making one, and can't stop thinking about it... This game is simply addictive...
And even if you don't want to make levels, you can always play the levels that someone else created... It's really a very simple design that makes a great game... Sure not everyone will enjoy it, or even touch it for that matter, but there are also a lot of gamers who don't like shooters, RPG or whatever exists... Its a matter of opinions...

This didn't sell well?!?! Maybe there are alot of reasons for that, but it sure isn't because this game is a flop, cause it isn't... Just look at it's score and then tell me witch console has it's exclusive on top...

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vega75 - 406 days ago

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i knew sale for LBP wasn't going to be as good as fanboys and web site claim it was going to do. or move system like sony would have like it to do.

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ultimolu - 405 days 23 hours ago

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Does it have to sell billions to be a great game?
And stop saying 'fanboys'. The game will continue to sell well overtime.

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vega75 - 405 days 22 hours ago

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i say fanboys and web sites. because they where the one claiming that it will sell systems and be the game that was surpose to kill off the 360. but when the smoke cleared. it didn't do anything. now your here telling me that it will sell over time. hum... sounds just like what you guys have been say before. that it will sell systems. fact is the only people interested in this game is die-hard sony fans.

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ultimolu - 405 days 22 hours ago

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And I have heard of people buying PS3's for this game.
Yeah, get real.

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vega75 - 405 days 21 hours ago

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must not be many buying it then. that must be the reason for the low sale. i think it's you that needs to get real.

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ultimolu - 405 days 18 hours ago

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And I think sales will increase overtime and it's far to early to write this game off.

Again, get real.

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Magic_The_Celt - 406 days ago

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LBP will probably win GOTY :D

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