LBP will be a superb game, in fact it comes loaded with 50 stages.
all 50 stages were made using LBP so no cheating.

the online and offline co-op looks superb. i especially love the way you can conjour up a vehicle for getting across parts of the level.

12 months of dl content is confirmed including many new creation tools, including a touted yet undecided sound editor.

people will be making mario levels lol.

i bet gaming personalities will make levels then uploaded and people can try them out.

day one purchase for me, in fact ps3 for me has many day one purchases this year.

next stop socom confrontation.................

 I think you proved you don't know what it means.

Achilles was a great warrior. Immortal. Unkillable. Feared. Until he got shot in the damn ankle. Did his one weakness prevrent him from becomming a strong war who won numerous upon numerous wars/battles?

And it was never a problem for him. And who said it's a problem for the 360? No one. They could mean that it will be their downfall later on in the "war"

You obviously know jack so there is no use in talking to you.

Achilles wasn't a nobody. His weakness didn't prevent him from conquering entire armies. He could have worn armor.

(to continue your sentence)

"Not a lot of people will spend more than 4 hours creating a level that could be done in 5 minutes" and charge for that short piece of crap.

Seriously. Who wants to pay for custom levels ???

I've learned a great deal about Achilles today!

The thread title is flamebait and misleading.

It makes it seems as if the biggest flaw of Xbox Live is because LBP is a game that could not go on the service. Last time 360 fans checked, we are very happy with it tyvm. And anyhow, LBP is a RETAIL game, not a downloadable game.

Of course there are XBL restrictions. There are also PSN restrictions (need I remind you about the MGO, firmware disasters?).

And yea I have seen LBP previews and they look great but you must admit its jumping the gun too much to say its going to be a breakaway phenomenon that will warrant saying every other online service needs to accomodate LBP. (which is what I get from the title)

i want this game to fail just to see the screaming matches that would come form sony fans trying to defend their machine

I do think its a good thing that Microsoft gets poked at for some of their choices with XBL. I like XBL, but that doesn't mean I don't think it can be better. They do need to give developers and players more options with multiplayer, like the ability for players to setup dedicated servers on a Live enabled (now free) computer. I can see where a game like LBP would run into problems there.

Another example as to why competition is a good thing. I hope LBP is successful, it looks like a neat game. I don't know if its my kind of game, but it looks like a cool idea.

I give this thread a 9.6.

I might be just me and my application of 'logic' to the situation, but the argument in the original article seems idiotic. Microsoft is choosing not have user generated content on XBox live. It therefore doesn't function as an achilles heel because if LBP becomes are ridiculously successful as the fanboys seem to think, Microsoft can just change their mind.

I think that's the whole point of the article, that it could make Microsoft think about changing some things.

I say bring on the competition.