LBP actually sold extremely well, over 500k WW first week.

I think he should be the mascot, absolutely. It used to be Jak and Ratchet, but they were never official.

If you look at the best selling exclusive on PS2, you get Gran Turismo. A car wouldn't be a very good exclusive, would it? There used to be FF7, but FF went multiplat.

I don't suppose Kratos would make a good mascot? Sackboy is perfect for the role.

I wrote failed to meet unrealistic expectations. 

Considering most people here and Neogaf were predicting this game to be HUGE and give Playstation 3 hardware sales a massive boost, even putting sackboy as mascot material (hint, mascots sell a lot more.)   

But of course the replys to come as usual from the usual slack jawed, knuckle dragging forum members.  Who didn't even read my post right at all. 

1) Sony never declared it a mascot as far as I can tell.

http://www.joystiq.com/2008/08/14/sony-sees-littlebigplanets-sackboy-as-potential-mascot-material/

http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3169329

http://www.gamepro.com/article/news/206538/sackboy-to-become-playstation-3-mascot-says-sony/

Sackboy is adorable, I hope they keep him around for a long time.

Kratos Sackboy!

Its selling well.

I thought crash was the mascot :P

Sony's plan for a mascot (if one even exists) is likely irrelevant to this console generation. It's all about name-recognition. Currently, I'd speculate that most people will recognize Mario more than Nintendo and most people will recognize Playstation more than Sackboy. If Sony wants a mascot, it needs to go full out with marketing of it in advance for next gen otherwise it's just a passing trend.

Also, disappointing sales to one person are not necessarily bad sales. The OP was expecting more from LBP which seems fairly obvious while comparing it to other titles as an earlier quote shows: "Brawl, MKWii, Wii Fit, Galaxy. Those sold over 2 million in the first week." People jumping in anger and attacking the OP are showing their own immaturity as it's also quite obvious that sales over a million are not in any way bad which the OP more than likely realizes.

Of course, it's always easier to post a "you fail" than a thoughtful response. You'd think some of these people with the 4 and 5 digit post counts would have outgrown that by now.

LBP sales are impressive, given that there are only 17.6 million PS3s in the hands of owners. It's a casual game for a console which is still a bit expensive for the mass market, so once the $299 PS3s arrive next year, you'll see a huge "tail" of second and third-year sales.

The real importance of LBP is that it signals a huge change in gaming. Power is slipping away from the giant media monopolies, in favor of fan-based gaming, based on non-commercialism and sharing. Some of the designs created by LBP fans are incredible, better than any commercial designer could have come up with. This is a good thing for gaming, and the monopolies will just have to learn to accept the reality that gaming has its own vibrant, non-profit public spaces.

Sackboy isn't Sony's mascot. This is:

Here is the mascot when it plays away games.

Here is Sony's new marketing plan to aim the mascot towards women.

Here is a store employee dressing as the mascot. Nice smile btw.

This is why Sony does not need Sackboy and his lazy sales legs. They already have a wonderful mascot that has repped PS3 since day one!

you know....oh nvm, I don't want to get in trouble.