Items tagged with 'Home'
At CES 2009 yesterday, Sony Computer Entertainment president Kaz “riiiidge raaacer” Hirai announced that LittleBigPlanet has sold 1.3 million units worldwide. We’re a bit confused by that as we’ve been studying VGChartz.com who claim the figure is 1.82m, but then we’re inclined to believe Sony in this instance.
Anyway… Mr Hirai also revealed that 3.4 million people have downloaded PlayStation Home. That’s over double the number of people who have LittleBigPlanet! Has the entire world gone mad!? We don’t care if Home is free! Everyone should own a copy of LittleBigPlanet! Everyone! Just look how many exclaimation marks are being used in this news item!
Let’s just remind ourselves about these two pieces of software…
PlayStation Home:
“Hi, we’re in Delaware.”
LittleBigPlanet:
Sackboy! Paint! Stickers! Nipple cripples!
Ok, so we’re taking a cheap poke at PlayStation Home. Let’s not forget that according to one of the U.S Producers on LittleBigPlanet, ‘efong’, a LittleBigPlanet Home space is being “worked on”. So at least we can look forward to that coming to Home.
In the meantime - Do you know someone who has PlayStation Home but not LittleBigPlanet? Get on their case and make sure they have a copy of the bestest most awesomerist game ever!
Mark Valledor, Marketing Manager at SCEA has updated the SCEA PlayStation Blog with this weeks latest Q&A session.
Some of the most interesting answers come from “efong”, one of the US producers for LittleBigPlanet. He pops up in the comments to answer the following questions:
Are their plans to make new levels as DLC? link
Yup, new levels have been in the works for a while (but require a lot of testing/fixing/balancing).
Are there plans for a LBP Home Space? (re-quoted from El Scorhcho )
Are you guys going to release new materials, objects, or other creation tools as downloadable content as well?
It’d be really awesome to be able to download new things to use while creating levels… Like more music! link
Yup, these are all things we’re working on…
Any word on any new levels by you guys?
When are we going to get a patch that will let us create levels with others or take full use of all the things you have for the game?
Any word on more tools or any other goodies you can hint at? link
Yup, new levels soon, so hang tight.
Sorry, can’t discuss new tools :(
I remember Alex mentioning a patch not too long ago (around a month ago). If I recall correctly, he mentioned it’s slated for December. Any update you can share with us? At least confirm that there’s something big in the works in that regard? link
Yup, we’re working on a fairly significant patch. Hope to have an update for everyone soon. Keep checking back.
So yes. There you have it. Some tasty hints at what’s to come there. New developer level DLC, new level creation DLC, and no wonder that at some point they’ll be a ‘fairly significant’ patch to get it all in there.
Dutch site ps3clan.nl have also reported that a source close to Sony has confirmed that the LBP Home Space will launch soon soon after Home itself, saying:
In this room will enable you to promote levels and users can direct you in Home loading level to play. Furthermore, the room also with a feeling LittleBigPlanet Sackboy programs as a central figure.
That sounds great.
Of course, the blog post also had the regular Q&A section with all the usual ‘coming soon‘s and ‘working on it‘s, which we’ll break it down in to easy bite size chunks of heavily summarized foam:
Moderation
Changes are coming very soon.
Rankings
They hope you noticed the “Star rankings”.
Failed to load level
This happens due to lag, or a level being moderated. You knew that, right!?
Lag
They’re still working to improve things further.
Full Profiles
Solve this by deleting some of the unwanted objects. They’re looking into increasing profile space.
Sackbook.com
An impressive community fansite popped up last week and we were all impressed, but we’ve been in discussions with the site owner and requested the site be suspended. Chris, the site owner, was happy to work with us on this. Our intent is to be able to offer everyone the choice of whether their shared data is visible or not in order to protect everyone’s privacy, and while Sackbook was doing nothing wrong in the way it presented information and had no access to any personal data, we believe this additional option is important.
Interesting. And a positive spin on that. Keep it up Sony. Dont go quiet on us and lock it down forever.
Merchandise
There are major plans for Sackboy merchandise, announcements in the New Year.
Page 1 of 1 pages
