Does it matter if it is sold in a bundle? Yes.

I fail to see why it would cast Kung Fu Panda sales in a negative light. If people are buying a 360 with Kung Fu Panda bundled in, it may very well imply that people are buying a 360 for Kung Fu Panda, or at the very least suggest that new 360 owners think that it's a great game to pick up along with their 360. How is any of that negative?

Neoraf do you have little big planet?

If not why not?

My VGChartz thread forecast: Mostly cloudy with a chance of senseless drivel.  Expect on and off fanboy arguments and warming temperatures as fanboys blow more hot air into the thread.  Chance of internet precip: 100%.

I don't agree with you at all, and yet I can't think of any rebuttal against that vicious paragraph. Well played.

I think it sold well. I hope to see it pass 3M lifetime.

People are offered a choice of 4 games with the PS3.  You can either pick up LBP, Resistance 2, Motorstorm Pacific Rift, or Singstar Abba. Hence, people picking up a PS3 can choose from a selection of games to buy. If they did not like LBP, they would pick another game. However, in the 360 budle, you have no choice of which games to choose along with your 360, you simply get Kung Fu Panda (along with the lego indianna jones game).

Also, your argument was based on an assumption. It is not known how many bundled copies of LBP contribute to total LBP sales.

LBP sales are absolutely horrible in comparisson to the expectations Sony made us believe. Sony hyped this game NONSTOP and expected it to outsell GT5 prologue (fastest selling game besides MSG4) and move hardware. It has done neither. It met NONE of sony's objectives, therefore it is a failure by their own measurements.

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/sony-littlebigplanet-sales-to-beat-gt5-prologue

@Cura
So let's wait for the American sale figures (no LBP bundle).
You'll have your answer.

 What you are saying (earlier) would only apply in cases where LBP is the only choice of game to pick up with your PS3 and there are no other options to buy a PS3 (i.e. stand alone, or with another game etc.)

The deal, in Australia is as follows:

http://au.playstation.com/news/bonusoffer08.jhtml;jsessionid=0XKWLPUPNQ2SZS3YIXZCFE4LXBC5GIV0

As stated earlier, you have a choice of some games to go along with your PS3.

On the other hand, you can only buy a 360 (60gb) with 2 games.

http://www.xbox.com/en-AU/hardware/x/xbox360prosystemHoliday2008/

 Also, to my knowledge, you are able to pick up a ps3 at retail without LBP in the UK and in America although I'm not sure about the rest of Europe. American hardware sales are unimportant as they are not the only country without a LBP only pack in deal. In fact, I don't think there is a country where you can only buy a PS3 with LBP - if you are aware of one or some then we can get an estimation of the contribution of bundled sales on total LBP sales but until then your argument is baseless and nonsensical.

thats true man, it sold well