Angry_Beaver said:

I don't watch TV and I've never seen any LBP commercials. What's with that?!

See proof right there.

I saw some commercials on TV, but they never explained the concept of the game clearly. They said so you want to be a rockstar? And proceded to show a rock level. It was not clear from the commercial that you can make and share your own level.

In comparison with the Wii ISS commercial. Here Nintendo explained clearly the revolutionary control of the game. They educate people what the game is about, that's were Sony failed! The game looks like an ordinary 2D platformer.

But too be honest the 3rd place PS2 commercials were retarded too, but no one was complaing because PS2 was selling through the roof!

Since no one replied I will stuff this here about LBP.

Note: I'm not saying that the game is selling "badly" just that it hasn't so far blown up into this wildly successful game that gamers and the media were expecting. (sucessful in sales terms)

I knew it wouldn't be a massive initial hit the way Sony wanted it to be. Forumers thought that people would be wowed, it would be a massive triple AAA success. As a game, yes it is, but there is more to working out a games sales than just quality. In a perfect world, the quality would win out but that's just not how it works.

LBP had the odds stacked against it, yes it's on a console with a smaller userbase comparitive to other platforms, but the console also happens to still be an expensive purchase and the world economy is in turmoil too so it's not a system selling property. What will sell the system is a cheaper price. The game is a 2-D platformer and those only seem to sell well on handhelds these days, despite the gorgeous visuals, it's still belongs to an old, almost niche genre the same as Muramasa does.

Yes it has dazzling UCC but joe public wont care and maybe wont even understand how its all made.

User content creation is fantastic, but truth be told, people are lazy about these things and the presentation is at odds with the relatively complex (for the general public to digest) concept of connecting online and creating your own stuff. It doesn't even matter that you can just download other peoples levels and play, even connecting a console to the internet is too much for a lot of the general consumers out there. So who does LBP appeal to with its presentation? How do games like Banjo and Viva Pinata sit at odds with deep, complex gameplay and presentation that seems to indicate that anybody can play it? It's an uphill struggle all the way.

Sony Europe recently tried to put a brave spin and a brave face on the games UK sales, but it's unlikely that it's going to get anywhere near the 9 million predicted sales, to be the massive system seller than Sony initially envisioned.

It's a new IP.

And to top all that off, they release it in the most stuffed part of the gaming year: winter!

SteelAttack said:

gamingeek said:

And don’t forget, you only have until December 31, 2008 to save $150 on the purchase of a PLAYSTATION 3 by signing up for a PlayStation credit card!

Cool, I would get one and never use it. .

You mean the PS3 or the credit card?

Get the credit card first, then buy a PS3 using it. Then die broke and lonely. PS3 is still $500 here.

gamingeek said:

The PS3 is  also a “movie downloading machine” hmmmmmmmmm. I suppose it's a good idea to promote a great feature, but it does seem like they are advertising a PVR and not a games console. Can I ask what kind of crazy internet speeds you guys have to download hi-def ful length movies? It takes me an hour and half to get a 150mb file.

And don’t forget, you only have until December 31, 2008 to save $150 on the purchase of a PLAYSTATION 3 by signing up for a PlayStation credit card!

Cool, I would get one and never use it.

I've seen the same LBP ad repeated on UKTV but strangely with an Aussie voiceover and an exploding dog.