Little Big Planet is actually my most anticipated Exclusive Non-Nintendo game, pretty much ever. It's the first game to actually take any of my interest away from Nintendo this generation, and the only exclusive game to ever do it (all the other games went multiplatform; Thief 3, Psychonauts, DDR) It's also the primary reason that I changed from bashing PS3 during its launch to rooting for it to catch up with 360 and pass it.

But I've been looking at the charts, and sure, PS3 is doing well, it's been consistently selling better than the 360 over the past year, but only by a little. Kinda worrisome, to be honest. Now maybe I'm late to the party, and even Sony fans have accepted a 3rd place at this point, but I honestly think this could make the difference. Could.

I have always looked at Little Big Planet as the first GOOD casual game for an HD console. Sure there's Viva Pinata on the 360, but that fell pretty flat in general. Little Big Planet has a huge amount of hype, and just with the Beta has already done some incredible things, but what impresses me most is that I can SEE the power of this console being used. I can accept and appreciate that LBP would not look as good on the Wii. At the same time, It's not this nitty gritty ugly complex "see the pores on their skin as they sweat and watch each drop of blood as they are shot" graphics. It's WHIMSICAL, yet still uses that graphical power, and they've been advertising this game from the very start.

So with the game launch coming up soon, I'm sorta marking this spot in the timeline for reference. All the other games for the PS3 have typically appealed to the people who already had or were planning to get the PS3 anyway, or were multiplatforms that left people going "I'll just get the cheaper 360 to play this game" etc. i think LBP is the only game I've seen that actually has teh potential to draw in fresh userbase.

But what if it doesn't? Or perhaps, what if it's just not enough? I don't see any game in the future that looks like it will actually give more than a temporary boost in sales, just like every other game that has come out already.

So what do people think? Does LBP actually have a shot at making a last difference in sales? or is it just going to be the typical "sales go up for a couple weeks, then everythign goes back to normal"?

I think it coudl go either way, but if LBP DOESN'T make a lasting difference, then I do't think any other game in the future is going to do it, which will leave Sony is pretty much locked at 3rd place.

GT5? God of War 3? LBP is nothing compared to those LBP will not be as big as people say..

Well, I mean, technically it COULD fail to give ps3 that boost it needs, but i think maybe LBP is just a small part of the equation.

This holiday season sony has (i think) 9 really good exclusives with LBP leading the charge. starting in november, sales start to ramp up, so combined with these games, plus bundles and console sales, i think sony will get a huge boost in sales.
There are other games on the horizon, none as big as LBP, but i can see LBP becoming ps3's first 10m game, not at first but it has lots of growth potential.

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i think you don't realize how huge this game is...., it's right up there with gt5, maybe not GoW but close. EDIT: i wonder if sales will be tracked for this week because some companies are selling it, but aren't supposed to....

no dude =/ when God of war 3 comes out im buys that siny black box haha

Well, since the x360 doesn´t seem to widen the gap between it and the ps3, any boost is welcome and the next 3 boost will suffice to make them even. They are FFXIII, LBP and GT5. Even FF being a multiplat, will make a better lauching on Ps3, like the soccer titles in Others. If, like MGS4, they push the PS3 sales close 1mln over x360, I think it is feasible. Depends on how hard they hit market. But I disagree that sony depends sollely on LBP.

I hope so, I wouldn't want anyone to miss out on that game.

although, I have a LBP thread where we will be making levels online in teams, and having competitions and we will tag all our levels in game for vgchartz to see and have other members rate them and such, perhaps have prizes, and more.
I think a lot of websites are going to do the same... like a gizmodo team, kotaku team, so on and so forth.
I'm sure there will be many official competitions as well, similar to the 24 hour competition.

anyone saying this is sony's last chance to pull ahead is setting thensleves up for disapointment.

GT 5 is the biggest game in Europe, and FF XIII in Japan, I am not sure what the major one is in America

i saw 21 lbp commercials today:I)