LBP DLC: Street Fightin' SackBoys

by Jason Dobson { Dec 9th 2008 at 10:47AM }

She may lack the twinkle in Kristin Kreuk's eye, but any lack in feminine wiles are more than made up for in burlap charm. Sony has confirmed earlier rumors that Chun Li and company will be taking their fight to LittleBigPlanet as the platformer's latest adorable costumes. Available Thursday from the PlayStation Store, the set will include Sackitized Street Fighters Ryu, Chun-Li, Guile and Zangief. The outfits will set you back $1.99 each. Or, if you prefer, the whole set can be had by giving your wallet a $5.99 spinning pile driver. Perfect!

Gallery: LittleBigPlanet Street Fighter Costumes

Tags: capcom, chun-li, guile, lbp, lbp-dlc, littlebigplanet, media-molecule, psn, ryu, street-fighter, zangief

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

iamnotafish @ Dec 9th 2008 10:54AM

Can you Hadouken the other sackpeople? And then watch as they run around on fire?

Arttemis @ Dec 9th 2008 10:56AM

I wish; then the pricetag would actually be reasonable. The prices on purely topical DLC is so ridiculous, wtf!

Dante G @ Dec 9th 2008 11:00AM

I could buy a whole game with $6. They look cute and cool but they're not worth &6. 60 cents at most.

Phizzy @ Dec 9th 2008 11:11AM

Feminine wilds?... Do you mean wiles?

Shmil @ Dec 9th 2008 11:12AM

No, feminine wilds
www.girlsgonewild.com

Marty @ Dec 9th 2008 11:17AM

Are they doing this with every new game from now on? Seems a bit silly to me.

el serpiente @ Dec 9th 2008 11:34AM

If you do not like it, I highly recommend not buying it.

j.howlett @ Dec 9th 2008 11:34AM

of course it seems silly to you

joerendous @ Dec 9th 2008 11:37AM

i would seriously recommend not buying it if you don't like it

Marty @ Dec 9th 2008 12:37PM

I didn't say the price was unreasonable, I said that it's silly to make this shit in the first place.

Haggard @ Dec 9th 2008 12:47PM

I agree with Marty in this instance. It's like the Chimeran sackboy skin you can buy - you're paying for an advertisement.

I appreciate that this content is optional but really - why does it even exist?

kaneda @ Dec 9th 2008 2:01PM

"I didn't say the price was unreasonable"

Funny thing about what's reasonable, in this case, is that value is not measured by functionality. As an exercise, how many of you were pissed at the $2 horse armor (which actually altered stats, thus had functionality) but are ok with $2 sack costumes, which are just for looking at?

el serpiente @ Dec 9th 2008 2:07PM

Haggard, in this instance, I think the best course of action for you would be to make the choice to not buy this particular content at this time.

j.howlett @ Dec 9th 2008 4:09PM

i thought the beef with horse armor was that it didn't alter the stats or actually protect the horse

commathe @ Dec 9th 2008 11:20AM

It will be awhile before Sack Chun li's wiles are wild enough to be worth while.

Wiinterfang @ Dec 9th 2008 11:22AM

Can't disagree with what rhymes.

BigD145 @ Dec 9th 2008 3:19PM

What part of "SackBOY" do you not understand?

Morbo- (PSN: ummfada) @ Dec 9th 2008 11:22AM

I don't get it, in every post about LBP DLC I read complaints about the cost...

1) You don't need DLC, it's optional
2) You wont have MORE fun with it
3) It's about the price of lunch for 1 person
4) Destroy all humans!!!

Puny Earthlings!

ZapDash @ Dec 9th 2008 11:34AM

Ha! Ha! Ha! Oh you.

Wiinterfang @ Dec 9th 2008 11:55AM

PUNy Eartlings.

+1 for both of you :D

T-Patch @ Dec 9th 2008 11:33AM

So, they're letting third parites get in on the costumes, eh?

Wait, I just thought of something...

3rd party LBP costumes + Sonic Unleashed PS3 delay = Sonic Sackboy Costume!

...I wish

Roto13 @ Dec 9th 2008 11:40AM

Yeah, I don't buy skins.

Jack @ Dec 9th 2008 12:01PM

Is it sad that this sackgirl has more of a womanly shape than Kristin Kreuk?

I think so.

Marty @ Dec 9th 2008 12:38PM

If I knew who the hell Kristin Kreuk was, I might have something to say about that.

Jack @ Dec 9th 2008 12:41PM

http://kotaku.com/5100703/first-look-at-movie-chun+lis-thighs

I think I'm just bitter.

Joe Smith @ Dec 9th 2008 2:00PM

OK - I'm officailly really tired of more and more cutsie Sack-boy versions of other characters. It was cute for about 5 minutes. Time to move on.

yehwhatever. @ Dec 9th 2008 3:31PM

God i hate dumb gaming fads,
people are always so willing to jump mindlessly on the next bandwagon in this industry.

I'd take 'actual-gameplay' over cutesy marketing anyday!

sk8monroe81 @ Dec 9th 2008 4:03PM

i see this more as a way to recoup the high cost of producing and marketing this game.
LBP has been a sales dud for sony.
im sure sony spent something like 5 - 50 million dollars advertising this game alone.
i have not seen 1 note where this game has passed 1 million copies sold yet. over a month after release.
(maybe amazon's sales at $40 will help this out, they keep selling out at that price)

but for them to make a sackboy costume probably costs them about $ 1000 - $ 10,000 in labor and if they sell 100,000 of them they just made $ 200,000 in costume revenue.
every lil bit helps out in the end.
and LBP is a game sony will have to milk for some time to break even.

probably the most spent on advertising 1 video game since halo 3.

el serpiente @ Dec 9th 2008 4:41PM

You just love making shit up, don't you?

Between 5 and 50 million dollars in advertising? That's a wide range, sk8rh8r.

$10,000 in labor to make these costumes? Pass me some of that crack you have there, looks like good shit!

Why don't you just pull a phoenix and say "WAHHHH, I HATE SONY" instead of wasting your time making things up. It would be easier for you.

sk8monroe81 @ Dec 9th 2008 4:55PM

el serp there is a wide range because sony doesnt disclose the cost of advertising games, neither do other companies. that is a fair guess though.

from how much LBP was advertised on TV across the nation and world for a long time now, it can be estimated that LBP advertising cost sony millions of dollars.

how much exactly do you think it costs to run a 30 second tv ad on a u.s. national tv network?
those ads were played thousands of times over.
(they cost about $ 10,000 - $ 500,000 for each 30 second national tv ad)

heres some info for your stupid head:
Media buyers pay an average of $419,000 to place an ad on “Grey’s Anatomy,” making it the most expensive fall show on network television, according to Advertising Age’s annual survey.

“Grey’s” is followed by “Sunday Night Football” ($358,000), “The Simpsons” ($315,000), “Heroes” ($296,000), and “Desperate Housewives” ($270,000).

“American Idol,” returning next spring to Fox, is expected to surpass “Grey’s”; it is “already fetching 30-second ad prices ranging from $500,000 to more than $700,000,” Brian Steinberg writes.

The least expensive shows are news magazines: NBC’s Saturday broadcast of “Dateline” averages $28,000 and the CW’s Sunday show “Online Nation” costs $23,000, according to Advertising Age. There is a noteworthy exception: “60 Minutes” on CBS fetches $111,000.

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i was comparing the cost of making a costume to the cost of making the actual game.
sony spent a great deal of money making this game, which has not been recouped yet.
however making a costume is very cheap for a game designer and can offer some profit margin.

sk8monroe81 @ Dec 9th 2008 5:02PM

ahh el serp, the defender of sony products. only comments on what others have said. never has an opinion of his own. usually always wrong when he tries to think.

el serp reminds me of a cockroach i used to know in my old apartment. yeah a bug is the best analogy of el serp.

from wiki:
Marketing

Both Sony Computer Entertainment and Media Molecule undertook a large-scale marketing campaign in the run-up to the game's release.

where have you been el serp, these games dont sell themselves.
and it costs millions of dollars to market any big game release. that is common sense.
the actual cost is unknown, that is why there is a big range.