Actually the story mode was said to be around 12 hours of gametime which is good for a 4 player casual platformer. During the story mode there will be tutorials on how to build and make levels, starting off with simple things like an item being out of reach and you need to create something to get to it. By the end of the game your knowledge on creation should be well enough for you to test it on your own new level or you can simply edit any level you want and share that. LBP caters to a lot of types of gamers. The learning curve for creation isn't hard and with the options of doing minor tweaks putting a picture of you on a level, editing existing levels, or creating brand new levels I can see everyone having fun with the creation aspect of this game.

Also you say there will be no way to tell if a created level is hard or easy, Media Molecule has added a type of meter that shows how much content and how difficult your level is based on that. Games will most likely be divided on easy - hard planets and niche planets as well.

Because Will Wright is making ridiculous money off of all the Hardcore PC gamers right? Creating content is the very exact idea of casual. There is no goal, there just you doing whatever you want and having fun doing it. There's no buttons to learn, no combos to master, no skills needed to pass a level, it really doesn't get more casual than that.

On track of the thread though. LBP won't come even close to the sale numbers of Wii Music, nor will it move any hardware worth mentioning when compared to the hardware Wii Music pushes out. The quality of the games though will probably be the exact opposite of that.

P.S. To all those who say that everyone that played it said it sucked. Who is this everyone? People that go to games conventions? Wii Music isn't even aimed at those people, so your argument holds no water when it comes to the mass appeal of the game.

Little Big Planet if it gets good review scores will do much better than Wii Music. Wii Music's claim to fame is that it heads everyone's most hated and most worthless products lists of E3 2008.

Regretfully, one does have to admit that Nintendo does seem to have an ability to sell **** as if it were golden eggs, so it might not be so cut and dried especially depending upon if someone like Oprah or Ellen decides to brag about it to their demographic of non gamers as Ellen did with Wii Fit.

The only thing that one can really say then is Little Big Planet promises to be much more fun and it is an actual game unlike productivity software like Wii Fit and Wii Music.

^ Read my post above yours. The people that pay attention to E3 are not the people who this is aimed at at all. It's aimed at the casuals who probably don't even know what E3 is.

Sadly even if LBP receives perfect 10s and has a metacritic/gamerankings of 100% it will still sell under Wii Music. Even if every gamer that has a PS3 buys it it would still only add up to 15ish million, and that's a huge assumptions since every PS3 owner I know irl said they won't "bother with kiddie platformers" and won't be buying it.

What makes you think Sony won't advertise this to the casual market? They have already invested in marketing for LBP and I'm guessing as we get closer to release LBP will have comercials. Sony is also looking to make Sackboy their mascot if the game gets good reviews.

Spore is selling to the hardcore market... that market is massive on the PC it's just that no one has tapped it in a while. This game will not do Sim like number ever. As for LBP it's not "casual" Mario is pushing casual into core and all you do is really jump on top of enemies and bump your head on stuff. Creating viable content will always be the realm of core players. Mind you that Spore may bring in some of those "casual" players into the core crowd much like the Wii is probably doing.

LBP is like all the others 3d platformers or like Brawl. It may have a "casual" appeal even though it doesn't mean anything because the "casual" audience that plays Super Mario World or Brawl isn't the "casual" audience that will buy Wii Music. The audience for Wii Music is the pick and play audience that bought Wii Sports, Wii Fit and now Wii Music. It's the expanded audience that needs extremely simple controls to play a game because they're new to video games.

LBP will appeal to a broad audience of gamers like the Mario game does but not the expanded so-called "casual" audience.

"P.S. To all those who say that everyone that played it said it sucked. Who is this everyone? People that go to games conventions? Wii Music isn't even aimed at those people, so your argument holds no water when it comes to the mass appeal of the game."

What mass appeal? Wii Music has been universally panned since its announcement. People only say it has mass appeal since most Nintendo games do sell quite a bit. However, Wii Music is going to have a hard enough time trying to generate sales with Rock Band 2 and Guitar Hero on the market. What songs are available for Wii Music? The only ones I've seen are covers of old Nintendo themes.


"Sadly even if LBP receives perfect 10s and has a metacritic/gamerankings of 100% it will still sell under Wii Music. Even if every gamer that has a PS3 buys it it would still only add up to 15ish million"

The only way Wii Music will ever sell 15 million units is if it is bundled with the Wii.

Do you know how hungry Sony fanboys are for a *fun* game? Those poor kids are starving.

LBP will outsell Wii Music for the first few months.

Lol, LBP is definitely a bridge game, anyone denying needs to take off the fanboy goggles. Don't like it? welcome to the world of a Nintendo fan, get used to it.