Well, I'm pretty pleased with the level of discussion this thread has created... I'm especially a fan of Borkachev's posts. And only 1 person making insinuations about terrorism. It came fairly early, but the thread has moved on, so I think it will take until at least page 4 until someone compares someone else to Hitler.
I've taken the marketing classes and learned about demographics, and come to the conclusion that you only need to compete along demographic lines when you're packaging bottled water or a politician; when there's no distinguishing values or motivations behind the products.
I just want to mention innovation vs implementation. Blizzard was just talking about it recently, pointing out how they aren't really innovative, they're just better because of a unique philosophy. MMOs are older than WoW. Rhythm games are older than Guitar Hero, and motion controls are older than Wii Sports. So the fact that other user-created content sharing based games have flopped doesn't mean anything towards LBP.
"[Our former customers] are unable to find software which they WANT to play."
"The way to solve this problem lies in how to communicate what kind of games [they CAN play]."
Satoru Iwata, Nintendo President. Only slightly paraphrased.
