User-Generated Content is Here to Stay… on Your Console

GotGame: "LittleBigPlanet hopes to revitalize interest in the Playstation 3 in a pretty simple way: by giving all the creative power to the players. Given how hard Sony is pushing this title, you'd think this was the first game in history to encourage user creativity. The idea of fostering the creative juices that lie dormant in each of our gaming skulls is far from an original idea, given that the modding community has been alive and kicking for well over a decade now. So why is it that LittleBigPlanet is being credited as the next big thing when other new titles that encourage user-generated content, like Kenta Cho's Blast Works, haven't been receiving any kind of recognition?