Krill on 17 October 2008
| ZenfoldorVGI said: Good, I needed to get in on the ground floor of this one. I'll mod my last post in the other topic, because I feel it is on point. Yeah, this definitely hurts the game(read on). A. The midnight gamestop launch with Fable 2, cancelled for LBP. B. Game will be released to go up against the later heavy hitters and multiplats, when previously it was the leadoff for big titles. C. Preorders via terms of service will be refunded from most online retailers, including Ebay. D. Bundles will have to be torn apart and repackaged. E. Release date will be unknown to a wide audience, as the current advertisements all have it incorrect, and while they weren't useless, they have now become less effective. Especially if Sony was trying to appeal to a casual audience, and get them hyped. LBP's launch was planned with careful marketing precision. With the street date already broken, and the beta, hype for the unbelievably hyped game has no where to go but down. This isn't a major bombshell, the game will make up for its missed initial sales with legs, as they game has always been one expected to thrive off legs rather than burst. However, like I've said, this is nothing but bad news for LBP, Sony, and the Playstationverse in general. The only question is "how bad." I'd say 4/10 level bad. The longer it's delayed, the worse it'll get. |
Damn! I'm sure Sony had a lot of bundles made up. If this is true and it takes time to rectify, will that mean there is going to be a shortage of PS3's ready to ship?
This game isn't on my system, but from the preview videos I've seen, I thought it deserved the hype and the rewards of good sales. Hopefully people will be prepared to hold out an extra week or two so the sales aren't affected but it can't be good to launch closer to other AAA titles.
