Why in the land of platforming (Japan) LBP failed so miserably?

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RolStoppable said:

Because controls, physics and mechanics matter a lot to fans of platformers and LBP is rather poor in these aspects with its floaty jumps. You may have noticed that Sonic also never took off in Japan and it suffers from the same problem.

The reason why Western platformers have had historically a hard time in Japan is that Western developers in general aren't all that good in making platformers. Donkey Kong Country succeeded, because it does things right. Crash Bandicoot, a non-Japanese game series, also did things right, at least with the first three games developed by Naughty Dog. CB is actually the closest thing we have ever had in transfering a 2D platformer into the third dimension.

Bullshit. Ratchet and Clank, Sly Cooper, Jak and Daxter, Crash Bandicoot (which you mentioned), Donkey Kong, and LBP (debated I know) are all fantastic western made platformers.