LittleBigPlanet shifts over 200K copies in UK

by Ludwig Kietzmann on Jan 7th 2009 10:56AM

Media Molecule's platformer and form-your-own-platter, LittleBigPlanet, has earned itself "Gold" status in the UK, as awarded by the ELSPA group to titles that sell over 200,000 copies. As Edge Online points out, this comes after the game fell out of the all-format top ten just one week after its fourth-place debut. Sales are said to have been buoyed by a strong TV advertising campaign and, presumably, mankind's inalienable love for squishy sack persons.

Other notable recipients of the gold in them thar prestigious hills are Bethesda's post-apocalyptic Fallout 3, Ubisoft's pre-apocalyptic Far Cry 2 and Blizzard's socially apocalyptic Wrath of the Lich King. ELSPA also awarded "Platinum" status -- that's for selling between 300,000 and 600,000 units -- to Fable 2, which can be apocalyptic if you play as a complete bastard.

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Tags: LittleBigPlanet, PS3, sales, UK

Reader Comments (49)

I like all the apocalysms you just used.

Hmmm Mulholland Drive reminds me those scenes between Naomi Watts and Laura Helena Harring and then ... :O

... Man how you can not be enjoying LBP? Awesome and fun game :)

Damn my comment was for Shagittarius.

Down vote this please :)

How can you tell when you've beat this game? I forced myself to play through it but I can't tell if I've finished it or not.

Do I need to collect more stamps and set pieces to unlock more areas or do you just odwnload user made stuff.

I'm being entirely serious here, I'd like to move it to my finished pile but I don't know if I'm done even though there seems to be no more available levels.

I read the manual and it doesn't say requirements other than completing levels to move on.

Please help.

just have fun

Let me reiterate. I'm not enjoying this game, but I want to play through it so I can see what it offers. So how do I know when I'm finished? Is there an ending?

so you like S&M?

No, that's why I want to know if I've finished it. Shall we go round and round?

I think that's something you need to discover for yourself ;)

It's a platformer not Mulholland Drive, just tell me if there's an ending.

***SPOILERS***

If you have beaten the collector than you have completed all of the main levels of the game. A total of 22 levels if memory serves. There are additional minigame levels that you can unlock by collecting keys in the main levels.

And of course you can attempt to beat all the levels without dying (fun) and try to get 100% of the items in the levels (less fun). But even with these extra objectives, the game is short. Real short.

I love you Anam thanks! Moving it to the completed pile.

...unless of course there are secrets I am not currently aware of. I really, really hope that is the case.

its not rocket science... -_-'

Hmmm Mulholland Drive reminds me those scenes between Naomi Watts and Laura Helena Harring and then ... :O

... Man how you can not be enjoying LBP? Awesome and fun game :)

Huh? It's like tying to "beat" Gary's mod.

Protip: games are about having fun. If you're not enjoying yourself, stop.

Hi, not sure if you're aware of this, but there's an online portion of the game and a create mode. You can play new levels that people make daily and there are literally thousands of them. When you choose to play levels online, sometimes you will join people and they will join you, thus making it more fun.

However, you seem to have difficulty with fun, so maybe you should just move the game to your "finished pile".

What is with these comments? He tried it, didn't care for it, wants to know if there was more he missed. What is not to understand?

@hyams: Yep, I quit playing LBP months ago because of this. Just not that fun. :\

anybody else misread shifts?

HOLY FUCK!! your avatar's creepy.

Pedo...joker?

why so curious?

How do i change my avatar?

I wonder how many of those were shipped outside the UK. With the low pond and rediculous low prices of games in the UK (promotions etc) I know many people, inc me, who bought a copy via webshops in the UK for +- $25 (whereas here in Belgium the game costs €70)

give the game time it will do awesome

The world is using "humankind" now. Please update your style manual. =/

So I take it LBP2 is cancelled?

Doubt it. It's selling well. It'll come along sooner or later.

LBP2 probably wont be out until 2011 or so.......but it WILL be out.......

I just hope it has Megaman- and Bionic Commando-like features. Must... shoot... things....

and the paintinator don't cut it. :P

I loved this game. Almost have platinum trophy...and nice metal gear pack that just came out (funny story line too). I hope they make more for sony exclusives.. Killzone, Uncharted...Resistance.

i love it also. they have that resistance costume and i think i saw some killzone stuff before so maybe. imagine a sackboy with the half tuck

Wake me up when LBP sells 1 Million in UK now that will be something to celebrate.

well isnt that nice..........still wont shut the naysayers up........as people fail to realize LBP is a LONG-TERM selling title........it'll hit 3-4 Million Worldwide by 2010 I think........

I doubt it'll hit 4 million, but 3 million is very possible.

It's almost at 2 million according to VGChartz, and around another million during 2009 sounds about right to me.

yea I'm being positive tho........lol.......

I think it will hit 3.4 Million before Summer tho...

i thought it would be the first ps3 game to 5 million.
but now im thinking of gt5... but thats looking dismall now too.
but i dont know if any ps3 game will sell 5 million copies until the install base hits 25-30 million since ps3 customers seem to buy less games.

The great thing about LBP is the more players that get it (and get into it) the better it becomes. Even without content packages, people are learning to do very creative things with the build engine.

I've even seen some levels I played previously get updated with paintenator sections (the paintball gun mechanic added with the MGS level pack).

GOLD!

Always believe in your soul, LittleBigPlanet.
You've got the power to know you're indestructible.

Always believe it...

Thanks, I really needed that stuck in my head ALL DAY.

It's worth it.

hmm...it should soon overhaul sales of Mass effect and Bioshock, and already double the sales of Ninja Gaiden 2 and Lost Odyssey. Not bad for a "failure". Hope more people discover this game and Valkyria, excellent and innovative titles both of them

It's little surprise Fable 2 earned Platinum status and Fallout 3 getting gold status isn't a surprise either.

Something to bear in mind about LBP: when it dropped out of the chart most retailers discounted it to a ridiculous degree. It's perfectly possible to pick it up for less than £20 with some places going as low as £16. To put that in context the platinum series of games goes for £20... It's not surprising that it sold a fair number of copies at that price point really.

if the retailers did the same thing with fable 2 for example it would have sold many more copies.

LBP was $ 40 on amazon.com 2 times around the holidays and sold out at that price.
i wonder how many they sold.
i wonder how many less they would have sold at $ 60.

but the game still sold 1.5 million copies regardless.
its hard to chop down the price sold.
how many copies of halo 2 sold for $ 10 - $ 20 ??

EPIC FLOP

really dropping the ball on marketing this game here.. where's the happy meals, the plushies, the figures, the cartoon show..

I want a sackboy plushy doll!

This could have been the next mario, pokemon type mascot..

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