Microsoft is not copying Sony. If this becomes anything like LBP, it will simply be that Microsoft is capitalizing on Sony spending money to break down console barriers to an existing PC genre.

Says it all.

I already have a hard enough time finding hours in my day to play the games I have. I dont want to create levels or create a crappy game. After a hard day of work I want to unwind with a game made by professionals. In some other thread someone said it took him an hour to create a fire truck in LBP. I don't find any of that fun or interesting to me.

This is not my type of game. More power to those who like this stuff though.

Yeah, you're right. They didn't add it out of nowhere, but they surely didn't add it because "it sells games". They implemented it because they listen to their community. Go to the official Playstaion forums or the Playstaion Blog, and you will see tons of posts from users complaining that they wanted in game XMB and "entitlements/accomplishments/trophies". It wasn't until then that they started working on the firmware to put it into PS3. In the meantime, they even toyed around, letting people know that they were listening (think back to E3 07 "IN SHIRT XMB")

What you people don't seem to realize is that it's R&D. They are creating a tool to teach children how to program their own games but... if Microsoft decides to go with the idea or create a video game out of it is entirely up to them. They could use the idea and create a copy of LBP but they could do something completely different.

Again, this is in the Microsoft Research domain. This isn't a game. This isn't a response to LBP. This is a learning tool with probably 1/100th the budget of LBP. In other words, between the low 100s of thousands.

Look at what else is listed on the Microsft Research:
http://research.microsoft.com/

This isn't listed on xbox.com. Do a search. It's not there. This is not a game and it's not somehow supposed to directly compete with LBP.

And I wondered why they wanted achievements. By the way, it does sell games. I know people who buy really crap games just because it's easy to get achievements. Funny that. I personally think Achievements aprt from the motion controls is this gens best new addition. I get much more out of games because of it.

I don't care how much you smile!

GIVE ME MY COKE BACK!!!

If this reinforces the notion that "Microsoft copies Sony", then I want to reinforce the equally ludicrous notion that "Sony copies Nintendo" for LittleBigPlanet being a SMW knock-off.

it seems a lil boring.. I think a 7-9 yr old would find LBP a lot more interesting to look at..

pass...