Limitless innovation, endless possibilities, lovable characters and incredible, new, refreshing gameplay…Sounds like a Nintendo game to me don’t you think? Let me make myself clear, I am not denouncing any other company out there. There is a TON of very talented companies that thrive on innovation and awesome new concepts, it’s just at one time the big N always seemed to be at the pinnacle of that innovation and was a benchmark that everyone else in the industry would follow suite.
From Mario 64 to the innovative Nintendo Wii, it always seemed like Nintendo was the pioneer of what was new and refreshing. The beginning sentence of this post sadly isn’t describing a new Nintendo title however, it’s describing LittleBigPlanet for Sony PS3; a title that I believe Nintendo should have made.If you have missed the hype surrounding Sony’s killer app, you may have been living under a rock for the last couple of years. LittleBigPlanet has all the markings of a new Nintendo title, we just can’t find the Big N’s name on it anywhere. The reason why I have stated that I believe Nintendo should have made the title is because LittleBigPLanet could have been the next incarnation of the Mario Paint franchise.
What I mean in the previous statement is that back in the SNES days Nintendo had a very bold, yet simple concept and executed it very well. It gave gamers the ability to create stuff in the video game world and wasn’t really a “game” per-say, but a development tool, albeit a primitive tool. Fast forward to today’s technology and innovation and just imagine the possibilities. Just think of what Nintendo could have done. Nintendo could’ve given gamers the abilities to create their own user based content and make us create what we so desire to play.
Gamers everywhere would be able to connect with other gamers and test out user generated maps, levels and much more plus trade them via WiiConnect24. Someone would put the finishing touches on one of their creative levels that they stayed up all night designing and send it to their friends hoping to get some positive feedback on their creation. The recipient of the aforementioned game would have a nice blue light surprise waiting for them and be exposed to a brand new gaming experience…This is starting to sound a lot like LittleBigPlanet, don’t you think? This “new Nintendo title” would help make the big N look better in the online arena and finally make their online system a viable rival to both Sony and Microsoft.
And let’s take Sackboy, the main protagonist in Sony’s new amazing platformer. The character himself is very charming and can take the form of a plethora of characters from the video game world. Now imagine, if you will, Nintendo making this quality title. What kind of Sackboy’s would we see then? A Mario Sackboy, or how about a Zelda or Link Sackboy. Virtually ANYONE from the Nintendo universe would be a welcome addition for this bold new title.
In all honesty, I could go on and on. I do want to go on record stating that most of the time I am very high on Nintendo and their decisions to expand the gaming market but I truly believe that they let this one slip away.Nintendo has a boat load of old franchises that desperately need the Wii treatment and I personally think that they “should’ve, would’ve, could’ve” done all of what LittleBigPlanet is doing and more. Maybe Nintendo was just too busy making Wii Music…
What are your thoughts gamers? Do you think Nintendo will answer back to this amazing new franchise with a franchise of their own or have they fallen asleep at the wheel?
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Please, if Nintendo made/published this game it wouldn’t have had half the features, or the graphics that the game has now….we all know how sucky the online for the Wii is, and the fact that they would be too afraid to do user created content, and they have no proper memory storage abilities, so you wouldn’t be able to save any levels anyway, Sony’s PS3 was the perfect platform to alow this game to flourish the way it has.
I’m sure Nintendo and Microsoft are taking note of LBP and are most likely working on clones of it right now.
-JH.
My thoughts are that you are FULL of it.
Ever hear of the word “jealousy” before? Looks like you caught the green monster virus, ouch.
You want to play LBP? Get a PS3, pal. Because LBP is a patented IP, which means its protected and noone else can rip off the concepts of the game for their own console.
LBP can only be played on the PS3. This is what differentiates the PS3 console from the other competitors. You knew from the start that all 3 consoles had their own differences (and thus price). Well, guess what, this is one of those differences.
LBP = PS3
So the real question is not “LBP should have been on the wii”. No, the real question is “HOW MUCH DO YOU WANT TO PLAY LBP THIS HOLIDAY SEASON????”
Im drawing the line here. And you go think about that question tonight in bed. If you cross that line there, then go get out next week and treat yourself to the most powerful multi media machine in the world, the PLAYSTATION 3.
If you stay put where you are, then go treat yourself to some new wii game and forget about LBP.
1. Although Nintendo’s had a great history of fun, innovative games, I can’t remember a SINGLE Nintendo game that encouraged the gamer to take any sort of participatory stance on creation of content. Not one. So there’s really no precedent for LBP, and hence, no real reason why Nintendo ’should have made’ LBP.
2. It’s Sackboy, not Sockboy.
That’s the kind of post we expect from a fanboy: no research, no technical knowledge and always running to the past. But hey, it’s present time, it’s a new videogame scenario.
Nintendo wii is a good videogame, but littlebigplanet, as it is today, could never be delivered to a console like wii. Maybe without some of the main features of the game: hard disk space; HD graphics and effects; the PSN network infrastructure, just to mention some….
So brother, the problem with the it is actually people like you: yelling about something you really don’t know what you’re talking about.
Buy a PS3 and stop crying…
peace.
I share the same sentiment as most of the Posters.
These days, though the Wii prints money, Nintendo still stinks. Their first party games are waining, their third party support, though picking up, still bites the biscuit and Nintendo has never encouraged us to share creations.
Nope, methinks Sony is the perfect home for LBP.
ROFLMAO @ Sockboy… seriously, you seem to respect the game enough, can you at least get the protagonists name right ?
Wow! This site must suck.
Wow,, thanks for all the comments guys. I appreciate your opinions but I am wondering if any of you have actually read the article. I am commending Sony and the team over at Media Molecule for the tremendous work they have done on their title and I believe Nintendo really missed the boat.
I am planning on purchasing a PS3 just for this title alone and that rarely happens in my household (400 bucks is a lot of money, especially when I have 2 kids and 1 on the way. Luckily for me, my birthday is today so I am getting gamestop gift cards).
I have in no way stated that Nintendo is amazing and PS3 sucks, I am just stating that maybe instead of Nintendo making Wii Music (sorry Nintendo…) they should have put a little more money in R&D…
And why on earth can’t ps3 make a great game? or is it that nintendo can only make social shit and when a great social game goes out it has to be for nintendo?
You gotta be kidding me. This site has to suck as much as the Wii sucks.
After reading the 1st sentance I laughed and stopped reading.
You fail mate.
Not at all. If Nintendo made this it would have half the things because LBP is on a Dual layered blu ray disk because it is around 40gigs. second, Nintendo’s online is not comparable to PSN or XBL so the distribution of user generated content would be harder. Also, Nintendo Wii only has 512mb of memory. over 2gig if you choose to buy an SD card. 1 LBP level is 50-100mb But, it would probably be less on the wii because the game would have inferior graphics and less things to put in a level. One other thing that will drive me crazy is Nintendo will have TONES of censorship. Probably to the point were if you wanted to share your level with a friend it has to be looked at first. I could go on and on. One last thing is that Sony is innovative as well. Nintendo just came before Sony and thats all. Nintendo LBP = FAIL!!! Sony LBP = Success!
Sony fanboys on the prowl I see. I haven’t read the article, but I kinda agree with the title, this does seem like something Nintendo would do. Sony’s never been that innovated. They just take 3rd parties to make their games. LBP isn’t made by Sony. It’s by Media Molecule. Sony only published their game. Watch fanboys attack me for that one.
velcry posted:
1. Although Nintendo’s had a great history of fun, innovative games, I can’t remember a SINGLE Nintendo game that encouraged the gamer to take any sort of participatory stance on creation of content. Not one. So there’s really no precedent for LBP, and hence, no real reason why Nintendo ’should have made’ LBP.
Mario Paint, there’s been tons of NES games with level editors such as Excite Bike, Brawl has a level creator.
Yeah sounds like a case of sour grapes to be honest. Just because it’s a cute game doesn’t mean Nintendo should have made it. Nintnedo haven’t been inovating anything;
While Sony and Microsoft takes giant steps forwards in terms of graphics, online play and creative games, Nintendo on the other hand take a step sidewards from the PS2, basically doing the same things in a diffrerent way.
But in defense of Sony (I don’t want to be labeled an anti-Sony fanboy here for my last comment), they have made ICO and Shadow of the Colossus. Both games are very innovated.
Nintendo didn’t “let this one slip away.” It was Sony’s game from the very beginning. Sony helped to fund the game and Media Molecule as a studio. It wasn’t like Mm had this game and couldn’t find someone to publish it. They approached Sony, Sony loved the idea and helped to make the game what it is today.
Honestly, the ones bashing on this article have to check their eyes because they’ve hardly read it at all. This isn’t saying that LBP should be on the Wii. It’s saying that Nintendo was quite capable of making a game as amazing as LBP.
I myself was once fixated on Nintendo only. But because of recent choices they’ve made, I’ve been more turned off by their gaming lineups than ever before. LBP holds exactly what Nintendo was once famous for. So, yes. Nintendo should have taken a concept like this heart.
But as you said, they must be too busy making Wii Music.
As for the commenters, think a little more subjectively before commenting and making an ass out of yourself.
Nintendo is known for Mario, Zelda and Pokemon.
Not LBP or any similar concept. Because LBP is a new concept. Its so new, it was only patented in 2006. So any claim about “how LBP is what Nintendo is famous for”, is an UTTER LIE.
A lie made by a Nintendo fanboy living in his own fantasy world. Go away, we dont want your ridiculous people here.
LBP is a new concept made by a Sony second party developer Media Molecule and its for the PS3. YES, thats the Playstation 3. And just because its cute, family friendly, super cool and YouTube compatible, means that Sony is the only innovator in this business. And not the other way around about “how LBP is what Nintendo is famous for”.
That claim is fking ridiculous as Nintendo never made any game similar as LBP.
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I really don’t think any of the commenters read the article. At all.
Try reading it. And then try answering the question he posted, not going on some anti-Nintendo tirade.
everything about this game is absolutely Nintendo
but if Nintendo would’ve made this game and all the features were the same everybody including all the people who is praising the game now would say it sucks simply cause it was a nintendo game and would’ve went into obscurity, only having a few fans in the end
too many sony fanboys here. listen, regardless of what many of you say, nintendo is a real innovator in the game industry. people just need to give credit to where credit is due. the wii controller , with its motion sensing, IR pointer, speaker, one handed control, and the touch screen with DS are disruptors in the hardware sense, and consumers are voting with their wallets on what they think is the best system. and we can go into this whole casual hardcore debate, but let’s not. its an old and tired topic, because humans are humans in my opinion. in any case, i don’t agree with this article because there is room for other innovators in the indusry. nintendo cannot be the only one. so i am glad to see games out there that do things differently, because frankly most of the time, microsoft and sony usually bore me to death by packaging the same crap, increase the precessing power and sell you the same game with the same way to play. so i commend sony for bringing something new to the table, that people when looking back 20 years on gaming history will remember this contribution. this little big planet looks to be a killer app, but it looks like wii is the shoe in for best selling console this generation. a big reason is because nintendo’s unique hardware and being one of the top 5 video game devs in the world doesn’t hurt either. in any case, good show sony, this game shows promise from what i have been reading. hopefully it will start a trend in the video game industry of more user created content. its at least better than what MS has contributed to video games so far.
i remember hearing that awhile back, that the company who created this had come to Nintendo asking them to help create/publish it or something like that, but nintendo turned them down so they went to sony…
but im not 100% sure about that
whoa lots of gaystation3 fanboys much? all the concepts of this game would suit Ninty so much better, ps3 fans hate the fact that they no its true that this game would be better on Wii.
What a burn. A game that pretty much destroys anything Nintendo has came out with in the last decade. GG Nintendo, keep those rehashes coming.
lol, look at all the Nintendo fangirls in tears.
bu bu teh too many sony fanz. ;( read teh post
Give me a break, all I see is some douchebag crying because Nintendo has failed to create anything remotely amazing like LitteBigPlanet. Keep the tears flowing.
An article like this was just asking for gleeful, sneering Sony fanboys to come pouring in with juvenile comments.
As for me, I’ll reserve my judgement of the mighty LBP until it’s actually released. On paper, it sounds great and I’m sure it’ll be fun, but the way people have already decided that it IS going to be “teh killer app!!!11″ is a bit too premature for my liking.
Well, it seems both sides of the ugly, ignorant, immature, Fanboi crowd are here for attendance. Lots of blind and misinformed Sony activists and a few N10doh children brawling it out over theory and conjecture.
To the Sony crowd: relax, LBP is awesome, enjoy it and shut up. eliteist jerkoffs
To the Nintendo crowd: stop trying to argue a case you have no understanding of, just live in your bubble forever (looks at post from “AC”)
To the Microsoft crowd: ….your probably not reading this because your 360 is broken and your too busy swilling a kegger in the back of a Jeep/Hummer, screaming about the big homecoming game tomorrow….
yes, as im sure some of you said the wii couldnt handle it, especially the physics, have you seen how many objects can be moving at one time hitting eachother and still achieve great frame rate, and well once youve seen that game in 720p you cant go back to 480i/p sure mabye the xbox will beat that but thats about all, the cell is an effing powerhouse now shown what it can do not in a typical hardcore gamer way, but i think physics are the best part of many games, same reason why i love gt5pro and gt4 for its good physics with some flaws though
Who cares if this game wasn’t created by Nintendo. I am actually happy that innovation doesn’t have to come from one company all the time. If it wasn’t for nintendo we would be in FPS hell. The only reason why everyone is talking about LBP is because there are no other good games out. Had LBP come out at the same time as GTAIV or Super Mario Galaxy. We wouldn’t be talking about it.
Poor nintards have nothing for the rest of the year so they sit wishing that Nintendo had created a Sony driven innovated title that is called LittleBigPlanet, but as we all know Nintendo is still spitting out the same old rehashed titles with they have been for the last two decades except with horrible tacked on motion controls. ;(
Wow. The comments are full of horrible fanboys from the 90s.
I have to say though, you’ve gotten off on the wrong track. You see, Sony has always had an innovative approach but the difference is that LittleBigPlanet has the “Nintendo charm” that most of Sony’s games don’t. It has a character that we can manipulate how we like. It’s a 2D side-scrolling game, which is rare for Sony (actually, I’m not sure I can think of another sidescroller from Sony) and not so much for Nintendo.
Sony has always innovated in other ways, usually appealing to the older crowd (Shadow of the Collusus, ICO, Twisted Metal, God of War) and occasionally with an off beat crowd (Ape Escape, PaRappa the Rapper, Eye Toy). What LBP is doing is giving us the charm of a Nintendo game on the PlayStation- and with games like Wii Music coming out, Nintendo has foregone that charm.
I can honestly say LBP is far better then anything nintendo has ever created period!
i knew you’d bring up zelda and mario somewhere in this bullshit of a blog. and freedom261, your comment is has me rolling… “nintendo charm”? you mean that gimmicky shit old people supposedly cling to in retirement homes? talking about “the rumble helps with my arthritis.” yeah, someone actually said that. i tell ya, if it weren’t for 3rd party support… this “casual” trip that they’re on would fall flat. how much mario/zelda/metriod do you want on your plate?
[...] Nintendo Should Have Made Little Big Planet- Nintendo will be focusing on using Wii Connect 24/7 more very soon. A new Legend of Zelda game, done in 16-bit graphics, and included an editor where players can make their own maps and dungeons and trade them over the internet, would not be improbable. But the WiiConnect24 should be thought of in new gameplay terms than simply trading custom stages. I expect Nintendo’s new WiiWare games to tinker with this more. [...]
Reply to GameOn:
I hope you see this out of all the comments on this post. I just wanted to tell you that the article is wonderful and absolutely nothing wrong with it. I understand you completely but the reason I am replying is to let you know why you are receiving all this hate. The story was published on N4G and you are now getting all the N4G members on your site… and lets just say that they tend to be a little immature when it comes to consoles. Please don’t take it personally. Keep doing what you are doing and pay no attention to the fanboys/girls that try to put you and your site down. You wrote a good article and showed no favoritism or hate for that matter to any console. Its clear that you admire the product that is LittleBigPlanet and wish that it had made its way over to the Wii. Again, there is nothing wrong with that. Anyways, have a good day sir.
[...] Nintendo Should Have Made LittleBigPlanet. Not if you wanted it to be successful. The storage space alone needed to create your own levels puts the Wii out of the question. Let alone the user generated content which Nintendo doesn’t exactly embrace due the adult possibilities. [...]
i definitely agree that little big planet should have been made by nintendo. as you have stated in your article, it does meet the criteria that represents nintendo. but i would have to say that nintendo is too busy trying to maintain the status of the wii, that is nintendo is constantly being bombarded by 360/ps3 owners while also trying to keep focus on projects and other things. if you look at the crazy comments posted by the 360/ps3 owners.
nintendo was probably sticking to a settled plan and probably didn’t want to strive out of those goals, which probably means they have a lot on their hands and is probably a reason why they didn’t get the game. sony on the other hand have so little on their hands that they can go on a yearly vacation, come back and still have time for supper.
but i do believe nintendo probably already has a game similarly made.
nintendo died a long time ago with the nintendo 64.
Hmm…I sense a lot of buyer’s remorse in these comments.
On a brighter note, I think that you are right; this game could easily have been made by Nintendo since they have always been about this kind of stuff (most recently, with Animal Crossing…though this game takes that to the next possible level).
I mean, the graphics mean shit with this game… it is all about variety and creativity, not pixels. Then the physics engine is definitely not anything too advanced for Wii since Havoc runs fine on it. As for online, Wii’s online works just as good as PSN (have you guys played the more recent online titles? No lag….they figured out how to set up actual servers for games) and WiiConnect24 was designed around the concepts LBP was built on (thus, the only hinderance is Friend Codes…storage isn’t an issue because stages can easily be stored on SD like Brawl stages).
It would be a perfect fit for the Nintendo Wii and its audience (though it would be a waste to port it and I think that it is fine on the PS3…nothing in this game screams “WOW! THIS HAS TO BE MADE FOR WII!) and Nintendo will likely release a smaller scale game based on these concepts. Maybe a 2D Mario where you can build your own stages (WiiWare)? Maybe an old school F-Zero game where you can build your own tracks as well as play on new ones (WiiWare as well)? The possibilities are endless. Then to whoever said that doing that would violate copyrights…you are fucking retarded. You cannot copyright a concept like “create your own levels and share them with friends”. If anything, they copyrighted the unique characters and nothing else.
Personally, I could care less. LBP seems like a cool game if you are into the whole “stage creation” thing, but I personally never have the motivation to make one and most of the stages other people make are crap or more of the same (with a few standout interesting ones…but even those can’t hold your attention forever). I’m much more exited for FFXIII and The Last Remnant on my PS3 (which hasn’t gotten much RPG lovin yet) than I am for this game.
I DO NOT AGREE WITH THE TITLE ,LITTLE BIG PLANET IS GREAT ON PS3 ,AND LITTLE BIG PLANET ALREADY CAME OUT ON PS3.
YES I AM A PS3 FAN,AND A LBP FAN,LBP STANDS FOR LITTLE BIG PLANET.
I DO NOT AGREE WITH THE TITLE ,LITTLE BIG PLANET IS GREAT ON PS3 ,AND LITTLE BIG PLANET ALREADY CAME OUT ON PS3.
YES I AM A PS3 FAN,AND A LBP FAN,LBP STANDS FOR LITTLE BIG
PLANET.
I LIKE LITTLE BIG PLANET
I got a great code when I got the game and I did not use it yet!