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LittleBigPlanet Sales Are Actually Good

November 26, 2008 in News comments 15

Articles have been showing up all over the Internet saying LittleBigPlanet sales flopped compared to the games that came out around the same time period. Well it turns out that the game actually...Didn't. Right now it it has sold between 100K-200K in the UK alone. The UK has about 1/3 off all video game sales in Europe. Combine the sales from Europe, Japan and America the games is on its way to 1 million sales.

While a lot of people are saying that they need to market the hell out of this game, Sony already knows that. They are planning on releasing a 1 million dollar advertising campaign come December.

Lets just make this clear, the Silver award is given to titles that sell more than one-hundred-thousand units in that particular month. LittleBigPlanet launched on Novemeber 5th in the UK, so the title performed relatively well in its launch month, despite falling down the charts.

Not that many titles received the award this year, so it appears that LittleBigPlanet did get some recognition from the masses. Now, I can hear you whispering "only one-hundred-thousand"? Now listen. These are numbers for the UK, for one month, and the actual sales number will be between 100k and 200k.

After a little bit of research and some simple sums, we can estimate that if the title sold exactly one-hundred-thousand units in the UK, it would have sold over three-hundred-thousand units in all of Europe; since the UK accounts for approximately one third of the European video games market.
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    Capn Droid Nov 26, 08
    Oh, good; they're releasing a campaign around Christmas. Hopefully more people will look at the game then.
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    Blackfalcon Nov 26, 08
    It looks awesome, I can't believe it was said to be a flop! Seems like a really good game, and the advertising campaign should help a lot. They just need to show some of the cool things you can do in the game, and prove it isn't hard.
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    Newcloud Nov 26, 08
    i think it sold really well remember it is a new ip

    as for advertisements sony better not *bleep* it up... they should do something like the wii's ads(show families having fun on the ps3 playing it) and show off the sixaxis a bit
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    Ammy and Issun Nov 26, 08
    I can't believe people thought it would be a flop, It's really good actually, played it at my friend place the other day, it's AWESOME
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    Final Blade Nov 26, 08
    I guess that other article about LittleBigMess was a fanboyish article since this just showed its doing great like me and others stated.
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      Capn Droid Nov 26, 08
      Again, there wasn't any fanboyism in it. The three points were all about sales and advertising. It had nothing to do with gameplay, which is pretty much all of which a fanboy would kill for.
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        Koloth Nov 26, 08
        Nah, claiming that putting the game on the PS3 was a mistake and that it should have been on the Wii isn't fanboyish at all.
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          Slumpy monkey Nov 26, 08
          I genuinely feel that this game would have done better and felt better on the wii. But its good on PS3.
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          Koloth Nov 26, 08
          Felt better?

          Part of the reason Media Molecule picked the PS3 is because the Wii didn't have the space or power for the creativity tools they wanted to incorporate. The Wii's lack of a hard drive and use of standard DVD would have really limited LBP in many ways. In other words the things that make LBP worth buying wouldn't be there. The single player game would still be fun though.
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          Slumpy monkey Nov 27, 08
          As in using the wii mote to place things instead of a controller.
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          Koloth Nov 27, 08
          I don't know about that. The Wii-mote always feels very fiddly to me. Kind of like trying to draw a straigh line with a mouse. I would rather have a digital board.

          And in the same vein when I'm trying to make a straight object in LBP I would rather have a joystick than a Wii-mote. I don't want my own fatigue and the minute movements of my hand relative to the screen to make things overly difficult.
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        Final Blade Nov 27, 08
        Yes cause we all know Nintendo is good with Advertising. Maybe they should use this for Fatal Frame 4, which they so seem to not be able to, but rather advertise Wii Music? Not to mention the fact both Tecmo and NoA don't even know who the publisher for the game, let alone FF4 hearing about the game. Which is sad since Nintendo IS the publisher. And maybe, just maybe, release it on other territories.
        But wait, this is Nintendo we're talking about, yeah they're not known for that.

        Just as Koloth stated, LBP wouldn't be LBP due to the limited Wii console.
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          Capn Droid Nov 27, 08
          The PS3 is any better at advertising?

          But I digress, for this wasn't my point. Nobody ever said "Nintendo would have been better because they would have promoted advertising much more." People said "Sony did not promote LBP enough," and other sales/advertising flaws Sony messed up a little bit on.
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    streetcarp81 Nov 26, 08
    Little Big Planet is one of the best games I have ever played. But I had to do alot of research about the game. There was minimal advertising for this game before release and sony has no excuse for it. I dont remember seeing more than one commercial for it. The only way I got any information for it was checking the boards and youtube. A lot of PS3 owners are not going to put in that effort to find out about a game. It needs to be shoved in their faces in order for someone to want it. There should of been saturation marketing a month before release. One should ask, what the hell is sony doing with marketing department? Did the marketing team have a day off when there was a meeting that said, "market the hell out of LBP!"
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    Bale Fire Nov 26, 08
    I wouldn't say this is selling as well as it could of as of yet, but by Christmas hopefully it will have dragged in a million or two sales.

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