ya...the gameplay is the main point why we play a a game
LBP does not seem to satisfy people who really want to play games but not creating games
I mean,why are we doing this in a game?We are not artist,We want to play sports,shoot somebody and kick some ass in games,why bother doing something meaningless and tedious
2 hours for a 2-5 minutes video, come on~~~

Let me make some clarifying commments.

I am certainly guilty of mixed metaphors.

First, I said that if it did not have gameplay, it would be niche title. That is in reaction to the comment that gameplay was not important.

Second, it appears to me that platformers have not fared well on the PS3 "saleswise" -- this was not a statement about game quality.

Finally, the reference to BG&E was a game that did not sell as well as reviewers thought it should. LBP could be that ... but given that we were talking about the quality of gameplay and inference was that it was not outstanding, the comparison is not fully approrpriate.

Objection by Montana Hatchet is sustained!

However, even if gameplay is outstanding, it might still not sell like gangbusters because of the console and the nature of the game (user-generated content does not automatically mean big sales). So in that case, it could end up being like BG&E.

I don't really have any opinion of LBP, as I haven't really looked into it much, but please stop and think about this for a moment.

It takes months or years to create a 2 hour movie or 20-40 hour game.  Authors spend months writing a novel that can be read in hours to days.  I write music, and it certainly takes me longer than two hours to write a song that's five minutes long.  I can spend days or weeks making something, refining and perfecting it.

I highly doubt this has anything to do with the game or the editors, it is more likely due the fact that anything worth playing/reading/watching/etc. takes time to make.  The time required to make a level in LBP, according to your post, makes quite a bit of sense.

If you could throw together a level in a couple minutes, it would probably turn out bad. (look at the Smash Bros. level editor) It should actually be encouraging news to LBP fans that it takes a while to make a level, as that is a sign that the editor can probably actually be used to make good levels.

Exactly. n_n

I played it to it sucks!

I think this game will be a success critic wise and sell good between 1-2 millions, but will fall in expand the PS3 sales because a "casual" will not expend 2-3 hours making a level

off topic here but didnt mm annouce that there will be some sort of story to lbp and some DLC with more than 12h+

Actually, if you think about it...you don't have to touch the level creator at all. You could subsist entirely on levels created by other people.

I swear I could have said the same about HALO 3.

Ahh... The LBP hate is strong with this one.

LBP will be huge.