There's been no fanfare or official announcement from Sony, but there are PlayStation Network pre-paid cards out there. For sale, to the public. And have been for months. So long as you've got a Meijer near your place, that is. If you don't, and are waiting for something a little more widespread - like GameStop, for example - you may be waiting for a while. If this email (courtesy of a GameStop employee) is legit, it looks like the nation's largest specialist gaming retailer isn't yet equipped to activate the cards. They were supposed to be, but they're not. They will be in 2009. Just in case, you know. It was keeping you up at night.
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It turns out that many moons ago, Microsoft once had its eye on the Sony published LittleBigPlanet series.
Microsoft in a nutshell. Always tried to poach Sony employees, games, 3rd party games and devices like the depth camera that was turned into Kinect but was running on PS2 before Xbox 360. Wouldn't be surprised they wanted LBP. Just like they worked behind the scenes pushing the MLB to bring Sony's baseball game to Xbox instead of making their own.
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They didn't spend years trying to develop their own baseball game. They wanted Sony's game.
They're scum.
"However, Healey said Media Molecule wouldn't have felt right doing that, adding it would have been "morally corrupt"."
Major kudos to Media Molecule for being an upright studio with principles.
Great, more stories like this please. Show the last of the zombies holding the line what we've been saying for years: Microsoft is anti competition, anti industry and has no interest in making games at all.
But hey, at least there's an Xbox Games Showcase to look forward to, right?
Well considering SONY just killed the series, LBP would've been dead by now either way. Though MM probably wouldn't exist by now either, so I'm glad they stayed with SONY, hopefully they don't get shut down any time soon or ever honestly.
if its true that just BS then. I mean you can use visa gift cards,i think they work but still. Lucky for me my local gas station stocks them. The just retardted that there at random places and not at retailer like walmart, gamestop and others
i live in phoenix and i can get them at the Luke Air Force Base exchange, doesnt matter any to me seeing as how i am a grown adult who just puts in my card info in and buy stuff when ever i want, but hey people should just keep their eyes open I'm sure theyll start popping up at places like target and wal mart.
isn't it odd that sooo many people quickly reported this the first time it was submitted (see alt link) yet now that kotaku says it, its not fake any more, its real news.
I wonder why it'll take so long to get these to the main stores? It surely can't be that hard to make some plastic cards with codes and then distribute them? I mean, they're sending them to all the places you wouldn't expect to sell them, so why not just redistribute them to reach the target audience?
I also think they're making a mistake not getting these out before Christmas, they'd make a pretty handy present to quite a few people....
Now thats some bullsh*t!!!!! I cant wait till 2009...I was really hopping i can use these as christmas presents...DAM YOU SONY!
and of course Kotaku is the first to put up "bad news" in some peoples cases (theirs) the opposite view