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LittleBigPlanet sells more than 1 million

The PlayStation 3 exclusive game LittleBigPlanet has just sold more than 1 million copies. The game is one of the best PS3 games (if you look at the review marks). Click on the link for more info.

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Kush_Reaper5617d ago

The trend of ps exclusives continue. Sony's games sell well over time because there is just too much veriaty. If we had only a mindless shooter to brag about ofcourse it would sell more than what it's worth.

OBAMA!!!

Bon Scott5617d ago

too funny how the droids in here said it would sell millions right out the door.

Buffoons

poos35617d ago

hahahaha took quite a long time to hit 1 million sold even army of two hit 1 million faster./lol

Sir_Ken_Kutaragi5617d ago

1.9 Million!!! So far!!! ;-D
Er sack-boy told me!!!;)
It's more than 1 Million, i'm sure. It's SOOOOOOOOO much FUN with a few Friends or with someone on-line;) It will sell Loads more this xMas and into next year;)

+ 'Gears of War 2' should of sold 20 Million 1st week!!! ;-D It didn't!!! 'FLOP FLOP FLOP OF WAR 2' ;)
Well it sold 3 Million(Hmm)and the other 17 Million downloaded it illegally!!! POOR M$ ;-D

earwax5617d ago

Hahhahahahahahahaha what a turd! It took over a month to sell 1 million "world wide" as the Sont douche force likes to spin? NOT even in the NPD top ten ,SPIN THAT!!!! 1. Gears of War 2 - Xbox 360 - 1.56 million
2. Call of Duty: World at War - Xbox 360 - 1.41 million
3. Wii Play w/ remote - Wii - 796K
4. Wii Fit - Wii - 697K
5. Mario Kart - Wii - 637K
6. Call of Duty: World at War - PS3 - 597K
7. Guitar Hero: World Tour - Wii - 475K
8. Left 4 Dead - Xbox 360 - 410K
9. Resistance 2 - PS3 - 385K
10. Wii Music - Wii - 297K

There are your NPD numbers a-holes!!!

ravinshield5616d ago

8. Left 4 Dead - Xbox 360 - 410K
9. Resistance 2 - PS3 - 385K

MONOLITHICIDE5616d ago

Yea we hyped an awesome games that sells well from the looks of it, sorry most Ps3 owners have jobs and have to save money and pay whatever bills they need to and wait, not like most 15 year old Xbox users begging mommy and daddy for gears of war and halo, you would understand that if you had a job and had to pay things. yea not everybody is gonna run out like xbox fans did with their parents to by them gears of war, spoiled brats

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The gaming GOD5617d ago (Edited 5617d ago )

And ps3 owners don't buy games and all the other ect stereotypes.

The bad part about that is, those are vgchart numbers. And they ALWAYS undertrack PS3 sales. So they more than likely got past 1 million two weeks before they even posted their "estimates"

Edge Maverick5617d ago

I mean seriously, it totally got owned by Mass Effect in November 2007 sales and...

....oh look, it's within a few thousand of topping Mass Effect in lifetime sales. OOPS! I guess games that spread by word of mouth and have legs actually DO sell over the long run. Anyone see a price drop for Uncharted? No such luck yet in Canada. LBP is at a million now. I'm saying at least 2.5 million lifetime. That seems to be how Sony works these days without massive advertising.

Nathan Drake5617d ago

Must be the 360 version of LBP that sold a million copies

SonySoldiers5617d ago

Some random people just wanted to bring the LBP discussion back up.

Danja5617d ago

PS3 games aren't suppose to sell over a million it's just a Blu Ray player *sarcasm*..

I bet the new thing for 2009 will be..

If a game doesn't sell 2 million day one , with a 95 metacritic average it's not AAA , total flop..XD

fishd5617d ago

Ico
Sotc
Okami
Beyaond good and evil
Just to name a few, are some of the best games I have ever played and their sale was Disaster(except for Sotc,it sold more than a million,but for a game being for 4 years in development it is still bad)

jaysquared5617d ago (Edited 5617d ago )

LOL! and Sony sure did outsell the 360!! ohh wait..

Also I would like to see confirmation from Sony or Media Molecule about those sales figures because I wonder how they got Europes number. Europe doesn't have NPD or anything like that.

Danja5617d ago

if you guys think Sony is gonna allow LBP to fade away silently..then NO..

Expect a LBP planet Bundle....with the price cut next spring.^.^

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The Killer5617d ago

and it didt even pass a million.
as long as the game sell around 500K and above then it will cover the development costs if it wasnt an expansive game, 1 million sellers r successful and can give the team more money and more motivation to make a sequel and if its more than 2 then there will be definitely another sequel

fishd5617d ago

Actually Sotc is BEST GAME EVAR,for me atleast:),And it did sell a million copy,I am sure of it,ICO sold 650k,though

jaysquared5617d ago

360 is a superior GAMING console compared to PS3. XBL is greater than PSN. But the PS3 is a great blu ray player...

On topic- Spin it all you want PS3 fans but this game did not sell one single PS3. Everyone of you said that this was going to be a console seller along with Resistance 2. We can not say they are not console sellers because the PS3 sold less than last years November NPD!

Sez 5617d ago

funny that their source is vg chartz and not sony or MM. so are we to start believing vg chartz now. or is this a special case where we would except these numbers because it's LBP or a sony exclusive. i just want to make sure i understanding the hipocrisy thats going on in here.

solidt125617d ago

You are correct. They passed 1 million over a week ago.

FreestyleBarnacle5617d ago

Sorry, my friend bought a PS3 to get this game. Until now he swore blind he wouldn't get all three consoles again.

ultimolu5617d ago

No, there's just idiots who thought the game would just stop selling. -__-

This game will continue to sell because a) It's an amazing game, and b) People are probably waiting around Christmas to buy it.

Matter of fact, I feel like playing it now. :D

prowiew5617d ago

LBP would be a million seller per month if it was on the wii. But, being a semi casual game for a system at $400, never in a lifetime would be a system seller. Personally I dont like the game but I can understand people liking it. Ive played it two times only. But really I dont know if I dont like the game or is it that games like fallout, fable, gears, prince of persia, are consuming my gaming time.
PS: Has anyone know if any website post the software list (npd) past the top 10? I hate that only you see the top 10. I want 11 to 20. Im sure LBP got to be somewhere in there.

acedoh5617d ago

Think a game has to sell a million in it's first week. The PSone and PS2 have both proven that SONY games rely on word of mouth. Very few have had big openings. Most games gain momentum over their lifetime and rack up amazing numbers. SONY knows that instead of building up a hype train and spending millions upon millions advertising they will let the game speak for itself. Nintendo does the same thing and I don't think it has ever hurt them...

Microsoft has proven that most of their high profile games have big openings but quickly ride off into the sunset as sales quickly take a dive. Although some didn't like the movie Titanic it is the perfect example of SONY games that gain momentum as time passes...

Doppy5617d ago (Edited 5617d ago )

It did sell a million copies a while back, VGchartz didn't update any of their game sells until current R2 had it's day 1 sells up for 3 weeks, I don't know if they've changed it or not.

Edit

They finally updated R2 to Nov. 16 @ .68 mil. There only about 3 weeks off, but it couldn't have sold that well in only 3 weeks could it. I mean it's only one of if not the best FPS this year, and one of the biggest games for the PS3 this year, so no it could have sold those last 3 weeks. :)

BrianC62345617d ago

I have to laugh at people who put down PS3 sales numbers. I see people do it all the time. Uncharted didn't get off to a great start but gradually picked up. I guess since Halo and Gears of War sell huge numbers the first week some people think PS3 games have to do it too.

funkysolo5616d ago

Hey is M$ hiring? I want a job like yours, I mean you must be getting paid by M$ to be worring about sales number. I guess you only played AAA games that sell 3 million copies right. If you don't have a PS3 what do you care about LBP and R2 sales numbers? I guess that's the new idiot thing of this generation....I can't play lbp and r2 so let's talk bad about them WOW. What has gaming come to, for people to act like this nextgeneration douchebags

Gun_Senshi5616d ago

Thats why WiiPlay is the BEST GAME EVER MADE

Bubble Buddy5616d ago

Oh man did I miss a lot? Now 1mil + sales count as flops too? What's next? Not being on 360 is a flop?

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Nathan Drake5617d ago

You're fooling yourself if you think it won't have the legs to cross the said mark

Simon_Brezhnev5617d ago

i agree little big planet is one of those games u can play anytime and be good at it unlike fps i will probably get the game when it becomes a greatest hits i think it will sell 3 million plus in lifetime sales

claney5617d ago

SOCOM, Reistance 2, LBP all come out around the same time so those games arnt all going to sell awesome cause not everyone can buy all those, luckly they delyed Killzone 2 or else who knows what the sales would have been like with 4 games competing for your money lol, anyways all those games are friggen awesome (i dont give a sh!t if you hate socom, i love it!)

BrianC62345617d ago

"luckly they delyed Killzone 2"

That was the smartest thing Sony did. We've waited this long. We can wait another two or three months. It's foolish for these companies to keep releasing everything at Christmas. If you have a smaller game you should wait until late January or February to March. That's a much better time now to release games. I buy games all year. I think most gamers do now.

Simon_Brezhnev5617d ago

lol so 360 fanboys is this still a flop?

butbutbuttehcell5617d ago

Not a flop but has underperformed. PS3 owners said systems woud fly off the shelves upon release, but the game hasn't really flown off the shelves itself...Looks like a quality game, but somehow hasn't got the sales it should have. I think the sales could increase a lot more over time than your average games because the best level creators are surely gonna come up with some immense levels which make a purchase more attractive.

ultimolu5617d ago

Please give me the names of the people who said that directly or you can stop talking right now.

It's a new IP and it was delayed. How do you know people aren't waiting around Christmas to get this?

Obviously 'long-term' flew pass your brains didn't it?

360 fans at it again with the multiple accounts. Why am I not surprised.

evrfighter5617d ago

whoa there. Even I have seen the claims of LBP being the new mario. It was hailed the next big thing since sliced bread. But there's no way I'm gonna start digging through old articles and start looking for names for something as petty as a fanboy argument.

instead im just going to go outside and have a smoke.

no-spin5616d ago

I just saw in xbox360fanboy.com the attach ratio is 8.1 games per console for the X360
I mean, i like my PS3 better as a console, but the x360 gaming is catching on fire!!!!

But anyway, LBP will have a long and successful life cycle, no doubt

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LarVanian5617d ago

Flop! Confirmed!
Lol seriously this whole retarded flop and AAA crap needs to die.

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Most Offensive Video Games That Would Never Cut It Today

Times are changing, and these games would have never been made in today's climate.

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thorstein41d ago (Edited 41d ago )

Every single time someone uses this phrase whether it's music, movies, books, comics, video games, etc it's always the same claim.

The ubiquitous "they" won't allow it to be made. And every decade these claims are made the claimant completely ignores all the "offensive" material that is published when the claim is made.

In ten years, you can write a new article about how you can't make games like Helldivers 2, Resident Evil VIII, Mortal Kombat I, Dragon's Dogma 2, Alan Wake 2 etc etc etc any more.

MrBaskerville40d ago

Yeah, people wouldn't be constantly outraged if there weren't games that people found enraging. The whole SBI discourse shit wouldn't be a thing if all games were inoffensive. A game like Starfield can make a guy froth at his mouth, so there will always be room for a list like this.

0hMyGandhi40d ago

Normally, I'd be inclined to agree with you, but there are massive caveats.
TV shows like Venture Bros, Ren and Stimpy, and Aqua Team wouldn't/couldn't be made today. Hell, Ren and Stimpy was a *children's* show, same thing with Rocko's Modern Life.

It's not for some arbitrary reason, either. It's branding and IP alignment. Companies are far more risk-averse than they were when I was kid in the 90's. Of course, you have companies coming out of the woodwork to hell spur on similar content, but remember: Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon and some incredibly provocative material.

And for movies? it's pretty obvious. American Pie/Wedding Crashers/Eurotrip among many other "raunch coms" have fallen out of style, and are absolutely outside what the modern day film industry is willing to stand by.
Ace Ventura 1 and 2, Dumb and Dumber, Freddy Got Fingered, Rat Race, Harold and Kumar, and Van Wilder follow suit.

Remember: I am not explicitly talking about films put onto streamers. I am talking wide-releases in actual theaters. Same thing goes for games: Carmageddon, Duke Nukem, Manhunt, Six Days In Fallujah (with their original concept), Hatred, and so on and so forth. Of course, I'd be inclined to mention most tactical shooters like Rainbow Six and Joint Ops as well, due to cultural sensitivity regarding *who* you are shooting and why.

And not all of it is bad (obviously). Tastes change, and perspectives change to fit the demographic.
I should add that I'm a lefty, living in L.A. Working in film.

thorstein40d ago

The Boys, Invincible, Jojo Rabbit, Deadpool, Gen V, Last of Us, Banshee... There are plenty of media being made today that people will claim "can't be made today".

Profchaos40d ago

Yeah but if you consider manhunt which was basically a snuff film could you seriously make that game with high than PS2 era graphics.

thorstein39d ago

The Outlast Trials just came out.

But the storyline of Manhunt was that you were executed. But then lived. And if you didn't do as you were told, you'd die. And the people you killed were not innocents.

It was all filmed by a psychopath.

As we speak GTA VI is being finished up for a release. You get to play a Bonnie and Clyde type of protagonist who run up against the law.

Bodycam looks so real.

People are making those games. Articles like this will always exist no matter how incorrect they are, no matter how many times they blame "them" for whatever it is "they" do to prevent "those" games from being made.

Number1TailzFan40d ago

The UK is the biggest junk country pandering to that nonsense as well, with laws against free speech and expression to match. It got so bad even Rowan Atkinson made a video on free speech about it.

Now the UK raises the age rating on harmless films like Mary Poppins, it's just a load of pansy weak ass nonsense.

MrDead40d ago (Edited 40d ago )

The right wing Tories have been in power in the UK for the 14 years you know the ones that are "anti-woke", blame them for your perceptions.

Killer2020UK40d ago (Edited 40d ago )

Are these snowflakes in the room with us now?

This is more faux outrage designed to get hits. The consequences are unfortunately creating hysteria amongst those willing to buy into it and blame "them" or "the left" or "liberals" meanwhile the left are kicking off about genocide, actual real world abhorrent acts. Nobody is campaigning to censor this shit.

Huey_My_D_Long40d ago

Not too mention the fact that some of these game are controversial for you know, underage porn and encouraging rape.

So either the guy just came in to comment snowflakes without reading anything, or he is calling people snowflakes for having a problem with said titles. Crazy how much brain rot someone can have.

banger8841d ago

Dead Island: "The early PC version of the zombie game swapped the playable character Purna’s Gender Wars skill with a prototype name, which shouldn’t be mentioned directly. The skill name made fun of both Purna as a character and feminists."

"Feminist Whore" lmao

gold_drake41d ago

ill add one more to the list.
drakengard 1.

its ridiculous tho, especially since they'd still be able to find their place in alot of places in the world. except america of course ha. and maybe Australia.

ppl are so sensitive these days. ha. but it is what it is.

Barlos41d ago (Edited 41d ago )

They're not offensive.

And we need another Fat Princess. Fantastic little game!

Some people just have no sense of humour if this sort of thing offends them. They need to lighten up and stop taking themselves so seriously.

Deeeeznuuuts40d ago

Would love a new fat princess game 🤟

CantThinkOfAUsername40d ago

Games literally about sexual assault, mass genocide, bombing civilians, and school shooting. None of which is satirical.

isarai40d ago

Actually it's about fat princesses

Huey_My_D_Long40d ago (Edited 40d ago )

Its crazy that people are fixated on Fat princess when clearly the list is going over controversies, and not all of them are equal. Like way worse examples but pretend the entire list is like that.

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Top 20 Best PlayStation 3 Games (20-11)

Alex DS. from Link Cable Gaming writes: "Is the PlayStation 3 retro? This is a surprisingly hard question to answer as the system definitely has the age to be considered retro, having launched in 2006, over 15 years ago now. But with it being home to so many massive games, many of which still hold up today and in fact were released for the PlayStation 4 when that console was released, make the PS3 a retro console that doesn’t feel retro."

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shinoff2183727d ago

No ps3 is not retro. I dont even consider ps2 era retro. All imo.

shinoff2183727d ago

Typically, the term retro is given to items which are at least 20 years old (but not yet 40 years old).

Quick google search

badz149727d ago

No the PS3 is not yet a retro console. But if you're gonna put 1 game from a series in this list, then LBP2 should be there instead of the original, Motorstorm PR is also an overall better game than the 1st game and to put Tools of Destruction over A Crack in Time is a blasphemy when ACiT is the best game in the series.

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An update on the LittleBigPlanet server and online services

Classic LittleBigPlanet servers are to be shut down permanently following hacks.
Sony’s drastic move comes after months of downtime for the older games.

darthv72958d ago

It was fun while it lasted. And some of the user created stuff was a blast to play with.

Snookies12958d ago

Whaaa-? That's crazy. Didn't expect it to be permanently shut down...

Teflon02958d ago

It's still up on PS4, they just shut down the PS3 end because hackers on PS3 can't be stopped and go on the game making announcements that can't be avoided without having to go back to all the old game codes and updating to remove the feature etc. It's one of those sad and garbage things where hackers ruined a good thing. I'm mostly sad about the Vita, I'm not sure if I have my music stages saved to my Vita, meaning they're gone forever if I didn't save them back to it. They were good too :(

Profchaos958d ago (Edited 958d ago )

Have to say I expected them to be permanently shut down problem would be in the underlying server architecture and possibly something like a depricated authentication protocol which has to be replaced that the PS3, PSP and vita can't support which is why they can't be securely restored on those consoles but the PS4 does support it.so lbp3 was restored on that.

Given the attackers were able to breach the server there was obviously a fear of lateral movement once inside their servers so I can't blame them for this and it makes sense despite the huge blow to the community millions of hours spent building that community.

Despite this blow I believe the millions of creations are going to be available via lbp3 and it's capability of backwards compatibility with user generated content so that's something to be thankful for still not a huge consolation to the many players who only own a older console but unfortunately that's the world we live in these games are old the older they get the more insecure the servers get which the company that make them.host them on and the more likely they need to be shut down.

MadLad958d ago (Edited 958d ago )

Feel bad for the people who dedicated so much time into this game.

Battlestar23958d ago

Nice edit to your troll comment.

MadLad958d ago (Edited 958d ago )

I reread the article, and changed it, to be as honest on the topic as possible.
Let's be real, it was an easy reaction to have considering their actions of late.

CaptainHenry916958d ago (Edited 958d ago )

He's been on a roll and it's comical 😁

RedDevils958d ago

This guy love stealth troll on playstation article as I see the pattern, but he doesn't want to admit that he's a MS fanboy.

Christopher958d ago

I am also sorry people enjoyed the online aspects of the game?

mikey15958d ago

TheRealTedCruz10h ago(Edited 10h ago)
Feel bad for the people who dedicated so much time into this game.***

I'm sorry for the PC fans port begging for Dreams to come to PC... You do realise that

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Little Big Planet 3 PS4 - PS Now PC gameplay
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LBP is on PS Now and PC right?? So less of the crocodile tears/crap when you stated PS Now was crap... Clue

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The man who earned a job by playing LittleBigPlanet
By GamesRadar Staff March 03, 2015
***“We've hired four people from the LBP community" reveals Alex Evans, co-founder of UK studio Media Molecule and creator of LittleBigPlanet. Including one lucky soul who dodged death to get a job on LBP2. Enter John Beech, or 'johnee' to his PSN friends. Two years ago John was a builder with absolutely no qualifications to speak of. But now? He's a full time designer at Media Molecule working on LittleBigPlanet 2, one of the most anticipated titles on PlayStation 3. This is his story.***

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Dreams players are being employed by game studios
DEVELOPERS INCLUDING MEDIA MOLECULE HAVE HIRED FROM THE COMMUNITY

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Tom Ivan***

The CREATIVE CONSOLE creates JOBS... What are they using to Sculpt??

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the failure that is the MOVE controller. lolol

John_McClane957d ago

Why would anyone disagree with your statement? I don't get get it.

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John_McClane957d ago

@mikey15 Actually my comment was for TheRealTedCruz. There is absolutely no good reason for all those disagree votes.

mikey15957d ago

John_McClane9h ago
@mikey15 Actually my comment was for TheRealTedCruz. There is absolutely no good reason for all those disagree votes.***

lol
of course there is.. He was stealth trolling stating all LBP contributors wasted their time making levels for LBP... I pointed out that some of the contributors for LBP + Dreams have actually got JOBs because of the CREATIVE console. Just like Gran Turismo fans

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***Team GT Academy Competing at the Nürburgring 24hr This Weekend with Kazunori Yamauchi
May 18, 2012 (updated Mar 13, 2016) · News Article
by Jordan Greer · 37 Comments***

If you are so clever, step up and show me where I was wrong, or keep schtum and we'll see what a hero "John Mclane" actually is. lol

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Battlestar23958d ago

Understandable they had to do this better to be safe then sorry. I just wish those right wing racists that hacked the servers and started posting homophobic slurs would get want they deserve a good few decades in prison.

Profchaos958d ago (Edited 958d ago )

That's the thing I guess if it wasn't them it would just be someone else and we would still be in this position regardless of their intent.

darthv72958d ago

What are you going on about?

Profchaos958d ago

The attackers breached and manipulated the servers to place abusive messages all over the game ccontent https://www.ruetir.com/2021...

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