Year of PS3 running wild - 8 Days and Getaway cancelled

[siamesedreamer]

I'm convinced Home will not see the light of day.

Wouldn't surprise me one bit if Home doesn't see the light of day in its current form.

[duckman2000]

Let's start a new deadpool. L.A. Noir anyone?

I'm convinced Home will not see the light of day.

I'm sure it will, but possibly a quite scaled down version for initial release. I'm also not convinced that it will be well supported, which would be a necessity for a program of this type. So yeah, Home Lite.

[Herr Mafflard]

My brother thinks LittleBigPlanet is going to be goty and single handedly fulfil the 'Year of the PS3' prophecy.

He says it's going be like youtube, but for games. He says it's going to re-shape the gaming infrastructure and change the way we play games.

I think he's delusional. Somebody put him in his place.

Seriously, he's the biggest sfag I know and he doesn't even own a PS3 yet.

[duckman2000]

I don't think LBP will be very big in terms of sales. I think it will be pretty awesome though; being able to import material and create your own game, sounds like an awesome geek pastime. I envision importing images of my kid's favorite toys, recreate them with simple shapes and place them throughout a basic platforming course. I'm not sure how deep it really goes, but it sounds pretty damned full featured, and easy to use. So, fun, but hardly something that will draw in much of a new audience.
 

[Herr Mafflard]

That's exactly how I feel.

[Mupepe]

mainstream gamers don't want to create their own game.  they want someone to do it for them so that feature is bound to fail regarding mass market appeal.  doesn't mean it won't be awesome.

[crimsondynamics]

LBP looks fantastically cool, but from being a game to being the Youtube of games?

That relies on user-generated content - how many of you have gone out of your way to generate content to subsequently post on Youtube?

Me? I'd rather just watch - or in this case, play.

[Crushed]

Yeah, the first movie swaggaz posted is the movie I was talking about. Just look at the shadows and how everything reflects in MC visor. Awesome.

I remember that huge EGM issue with the Halo 2 exclusive preview, with all the insets about self-shadowing and bump-mapping. That article made me want an Xbox and Halo 2.

Then I saw the real deal. 

[Bildi]

I doubt LBP will do anything dramatic.  But I think it is likely to be a great game - if I had a PS3 I'd be pretty pumped for it.

[duckman2000]

mainstream gamers don't want to create their own game.  they want someone to do it for them so that feature is bound to fail regarding mass market appeal.  doesn't mean it won't be awesome.

See, this is why I assumed that Sony would get all of its internal studios and partners to really go wild with LBP, and create "games" based on their properties to be bundled with the retail version of the game. Haven't seen many signs of that happening, but then it's becoming increasingly clear that Harrison wasn't doing a terrible good job managing the studios.

[AdmiralViscen]

That was originally the plan, to release the online version, then release the disc version with the creme de la creme of custom levels.

Now they're going disc only, and the devs themselves created like 100 levels for you to go through or something. Oh, also, the game is never gonna come out.

[Narag]

LBP is looking fantastic and it WILL BE fantastic.

The problem is will people buy it in droves and "make it" the second YouTube.

Has anything PS3 been bought in droves so far?