it will come out on OCT 31st.

"SCEE just confirmed to VG247 that its LittleBigPlanet bundle will launch in Europe on October 31.

The pack will contain the game, an 80Gb PS3 and a DualShock 3 for £299.

It doesn’t sound like the cute DualShock 3 packs containing nothing but the controller and the game are going to make it out of Japan, either: a rep told us this morning that the machine pack was the “only” LBP bundle being offered in Europe.

LittleBigPlanet releases on October 24."

http://www.videogaming247.com/2008/10/13/lbp-bundle-confirmed-for-october-31-in-europe-ds-bundles-stay-east/

What about America!?

Why is it launching a week after LBP?

To secure software revenue?

Great deal.

How so? 

Current owners will still buy the game, not a PS3 and a game, and new owners will wait a week and buy the bundle.

Don't know why, but it seems to me as if Sony is desperately trying to make every hyped game a success by bundling it. Not that it's bad.....but somehow it seems like cheating to me :P.

not really surprising they pretty much bundle all there big exclusives. i wonder why dont they make way less money when they bundle them

I wish the bundle with controler and the game was coming to Europe I'd buy one for sure.

I don't see a Resistance 2 bundle, so it must just be you. 

 not really, the majority of people that are buying the bundles are people that want the game but don't have the console. this is a great deal for them. plus, it's a clever way to increase console and game sales.