LittleBigPlanet Game of the Year edition, will ship to stores on September 8th for $59.99. Bonus content: 18 new levels made by players, 7 different content packs, exclusive access to the upcoming ModNation Online beta.
Bonus content is valued at over $30.
LBP manager states that they are only half way through fleshing out LBP. Their long term goal is to allow for the creation of games within LBP, not just levels.
The creation of a Tetris game within LBP indicates to the developer that they are on the right track.
Those who dubbed LittleBigPlanet a flop after its first sales numbers rolled in should hang their heads in shame. The latest LittleBigPlanet data is in, and it's utterly astounding.
Over 650,000 levels have been created by 1,935,000 online LittleBigPlanet players, with an average of 35,373 levels uploaded each week. That's 5,053 levels added a day, or 211 added an hour, or one level published every 17 seconds.
This game is no longer selling 75K units/month any more and sales are slowing down rapidly. It just recently topped 2 million (according to VGC, which inflates numbers as it is) - so how can the currently predicted 3.6 million copies sold me even remotely possible?
If it keeps at its current rate of slowing sales, it would take roughly 30 months to hit 3 million. That is 2.5 years.
PS3Hype writes: 'LittleBigPlanet (or Sackboy) has become the image of the PlayStation 3. But because of the wrong scheduled release, the game has not sold as expected. Yet 2 million is not nothing, and the people at Media Molecule can be very happy about this numbers!' Note this dose not include bundle numbers.
611,000 sold in the first 2 months in US. I believe estimating this to be 50% of lifetime sales is a fair assumption considering these were both holiday months. That would put the game at 1.2 million to be sold lifetime in US.
Assuming US makes up 50% of the global sales for this title, we'd only be at 2.4 million units. Assuming US is 1/3 of the global sales, that'd put it at 3.6 million units. The GLS Stock is in between there and towards the high end.
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Currently listed at about 3.1 million copies. It might sell slowly but this stock is already at par with confirmed sales....
small growth opportunity here?