I got 5 on it.

Terrorsaur.

By the way. Do any other PS3 SKUs come with Dualshock 3s yet?

dowingba

@jonathan.: I was distracted from that COD4 match as I began to ponder if my mom was actually my mum and American english is "incorrect."

Yeah. It is.

dowingba

@Luke Plunkett: On Xbox Live, two players got into an argument as usual. The English one told the American one to shut up and go to his "mum." The American one laughed and said it's not mum but mom, and the English one said "It's our language, I think we'd know. We laugh at you saying mom. It's mum."

I was distracted from that COD4 match as I began to ponder if my mom was actually my mum and American english is "incorrect."

jonathan.

@e-friend: Good call.

Bernard McGraw

@e-friend: ::points up assuming he'd be in space::

jonathan.

@Luke Plunkett: Whoever has the nukes makes the rules.

Anyways, I like the boxart. Not really a "system seller" for me personally. MGS4 should have been the seller for me, but I just don't have the coins.

AokiShinya

Someone point me in the direction of a Dead Space sack boy.

e-friend

@Poisonous Taoist: Funny, seeing as it's Britain's language. Learn to deal with it is my advice.

Luke Plunkett

@Saint Anima: Level up! Humor +1

Uh..the box art is really awesome. I didn't it as much as the box art for the game, but the same graphics on the huge PS3 box looks a lot cooler.

I'm still on the fence as to if LBP will sell me a PS3. I wonder if it will be a system seller.

jonathan.

Well it's certainly eye-catching.

btnheazy03

Note for the non-Europeans: €400 (variable $585) is the normal price of the PS3 without a game, so basically it's not any more escalated as you might think.

coladict

nice box, just got the ps3 for the LBP, did I mention it is a nice box?

matchboxlord

"Sony think LittleBigPlanet will be a system-seller."

Either I'm a grammar asshole or editors are making more typos.

Anyway, the box is pretty attractive. So attractive that I want to take it behind an alley and impregnate it. REFERENCE TIME.

Ping5000

@Poisonous Taoist: They Don't do that in the US? Huh. I'm learnin'.

Bernard McGraw

That box seems to have a lot of weight on its shoulders. What will be its LittleBigFate in Europe? Only time will tell.

Saint Anima

Love that box!!! For the first time I'm actually glad I don't have a PS3 yet, cause when I do get one I want that box!

CruiseElroy

Oh it will be a system seller!! Oh Yes it will!!

One is a system, so if they sell one because of this, they have a system seller on their hands! Watch it fly off the shelves.

Little girl: Daddy, that looks so cute, can I have one?
Daddy: How about a Barbi instead?
Little girl: Yay!! A Barbi is even better!

Lyme

Cheap blue-ray player, dat...

Unclean1

OH MY GOD THIS IS SO PRETTY

Bernard McGraw

Knitted sackboy creeps me out, for some reason.

Miksho

That box would make it worth not stuffing it in the back of your closet.

Fadakar

It might sell PS3's, I considered it myself because LBP. Followed by suddenly coming to my senses.

Herabec

sooo tempting....

Ahmunnaeetchoo

You know, Luke? That Australian/British/New Zealand habit of counting of referring to a company as many rather than one gets me every time.

Gotta love language.

Poisonous Taoist

@NeVeRMoRe666: Well to a person who never heard of LBP it may have that reaction (with the exception of the lips+tongue) and they would think it's a kiddy/girl game. And that + 500EUR is indeed a not so logical step to take for the mainstream.

But for those who know LBP, all they can see is awesomeness.

I think the main task for Sony is to market this game. Just look at how many trailers they put out. You should at least have like 4 commercials. Play (just a level, platform style but with co-op), Create (creating a level, showing the accessability), Share (showing the community aspect) and then some story commercial with Sackboy in love or some other commercial showing the broad potential. It's gonna be hard but if they get the message accross it could definitly move a lot of hardware if it picks up.

nudie

@AokiShinya: If that's the case, then Russia rules your ass!

Lemonade

Sonys E3 conference created the demmand for a PS3 only 26 more days birthday w00t

Blazinfire0

Its just me here (I know, I'm probably alone on this one), but I haven't really liked the direction of the box art or this PS3 bundle art. Its not bad per se. But to me (AND JUST ME) it looks like a 12 year old girl full of sprinkles and markers threw up all over and/or around Sackboy.

I liked the placeholder ones with the blue background and the silhouettes alot more. Its subtle and mysterious. I guess it just comes down to personal taste. I have a thing for nice, clean neat asthetics. I don't need everything and the kitchen sink to be on the cover of my game, maybe you do, but sackboy is more than enough for me.

With that said, I'm still getting this game even if it was wrapped in baby shit with used heroine needles sticking out of it.

NeVeRMoRe666

@dowingba: the 80GB :) Same price as the 40GB only with DS3 and double capacity.

nudie

The box art is awesome and while it tempts me, I doubt it will be a success. A cutesy looking game and $500 just don't jive.

Fryfat2

@nudie:
Well they probably have started marketing it with these
[www.ps3fanboy.com] If they get it into shops in time and/or place it in easily accessible areas for people, it could sell a lot better.

Comments 'rnt Us (usually)

Oh man. At first, I thought you said $400.

I still do not like that boxart. It still looks like a scene girls myspace page.

Ryumeka

I wish they packed a DS3 with my ps3. Those things are more expensive than games damn it!

Lemonade

it looks scrap booky

icko

Shame this is still the system without all the ports and stuff, otherwise this would be Relevant To My Interests.

Plus there's a 160GB model coming very soon after this in Europe, so I don't see why I'd buy an 80GB one unless I simply couldn't wait to play LBP.

However: Sony, you are getting better at this. You packed a DS3 in with European PS3s now, so that's a start. I want to buy a PS3 this year, make it easy for me!

Kazzahdrane

@NeVeRMoRe666: "With that said, I'm still getting this game even if it was wrapped in baby shit with used heroine needles sticking out of it."

Or you could just, you know, download it from PSN. Saves you from risking faecal poisoning and AIDS.

MrPerson

I mean even if it was just a book you could look at the store and not take home. Meh need an edit here :P

Comments 'rnt Us (usually)

@nudie: I think it's definitely going in at Bestbuy to educate the staff/customer (not sure better ask someone at Bestbuy :) ). But it should definitely go to most retail stores as a book even if it wasn't distributed for free.

Comments 'rnt Us (usually)

@cubabit:
Actually I was wrong about the color bit - that was the effort of a certain Noah Webster ([www.colourlovers.com]) . However my point stands - a lot of nuances of pre 19th century British English exist in American English.

cubabit

@above. That looks great!! Are they handing these out? Seems like an actual book, but very detailed.

nudie

@jonathan.:
The thing is British English has evolved and American English has evolved along a different thread - sort of separated at birth. Yes, the language started in these British Isles, folks!

Here in England there was once a time when we said 'color' and 'pants' instead of trousers, you see.

cubabit

I love it, good move on their part to push Little Big Planet. It deserves it.

Ralavik

why dont companies release custom consoles this generation that actually FEATURE the game they are bundled with. the mgs4 bundle was a close try wit the exclusive color, but it is by no means a good limited edition console cuz its only a different color. the 360 tales console only featured a faceplate, which fails cuz the sides were still bland. i wanna see a rainbow colored ps3 wit the LBP logo or something dammit.

seems like only handhelds get this treatment nowadays.

maraxusofk

That box looks awesome. I hope they release a Downloadable Cardboard Box for MGS4 that looks exactly like that one.

Unlikely, but if it happens I'm gonna wear a party hat all day long.

Coco-Love

MGS4 bundle>this

TheDevilPrince

The Pack that I am going to buy!

Rakotto

@Miksho: It's his cold dead eyes that do it...

f0cus

dammit, those little LBP sock guys are so cute

Cell9song

Whoa. This might be the thing that convinces me to buy a ps3.

SensAzn

@Terrorsaur.:
LMFAO

Sackboy kinda creeps me out :( But I cant wait for this game! Already paid for :)

Xuchilbara

So, only MGS4/Konami can do the "Limited Edition PS3" (GunMetal)?

xCruciaLx

Current PS3 owners will start searching eBay for just the box (empty)?

somarix

LBP, Heavy Rain, unnamed Ico project and FFXIII.. I think its finally time to buy a PS3

SansSanity

Finally a Pack with a DS3.

Fabrice

Why do they never tell us how much it will be in pounds sterling? Britain is part of Europe too ya know! Is it kotaku's fault or have they just not decided how much it will be in the UK?

b xx

BlaineT4

@Kazzahdrane:

so this 80gb model isn't backwards compatable? Bah, i was hoping to get it and finish ffXII on it.

Ahmunnaeetchoo

@MrPerson: You're joking right. You know its not a PSN game right.

Neo-Senku: The World's Finest Pervert

How many SKU's? Jesusfuckingchrist..

nolanvoid

@AokiShinya: "Whoever has the nukes makes the rules."

So, Pakistan then? They've also got the world's seventh biggest military apparently. No wonder Bin Laden feels that he can relax there. It's reassuring that their political situation is as stable as it is.

Is nuclear exchange possible in LBP? Flaming sackboys FTW!

BritBloke916

@BlaineT4: [www.xe.com], knock yourself out, put in the amount you want changed and it'll do it for you.
The people complaining about ANOTHER bundle are silly, of course they're going to continually update game bundles. Who wouldn't? It's not like the Motorstorm bundle will be as appealing now as it's an older game.

TearsandScreams

@cubabit: Thanks... People just don't get that language is dynamic... The Brits act like they "made" English and they own it, but American English just evolved differently than British English. No one today regularly speaks the English language that was spoken in the 1500s, for instance. By regularly, I don't mean on stage or in classrooms.

bobtheduck

@BlaineT4: and you are rather the 51st state than a part of Europe. Or is there anything else than vetos and blockades the UK contributes to the EU? ^^

igl

@BlaineT4: Well, that's your own bloody fault, I guess. You were the ones who didn't want the Euro in your country..

little_dragon

@BlaineT4: Because this was found on a French website. It's not an official announcement.

Luke Plunkett

@BlaineT4: It'll be £299 (I think) like the other recent bundles...

This is a pretty tempting bundle but I need more than just this to make me buy a PS3. What else is coming out soon on PS3, anyone?

f0cus

@BlaineT4: Cause it's from some random French website you dumbass ..

@nolanvoid: Its the same SKU, try to read. Just bundled with a FREE game. Cut yer yapping.

nudie

@bobtheduck: erm, I think you'll find that they did.

Vestan_Pance

@AokiShinya: Also, Britain has nukes too, along with China, India, Isreal, ,North Korea, Iran (probably)...that's a lot of rule makers...oh yeah I forgot France, but they don't really do "rules" they just revolt and lop off heads.

ThursdayNext

That is awesome.
Already have a ps3 with a pre-order for LBP anyway and Just found out that play.com has the Nariko sackgirl skin.... AWESOME!

randomletters

@igl:

When was the last time the UK ever blockaded or vetoed anything in the EU? And how would they do that, and why?

carrliadiere

@f0cus:

Little Big Planet? Heavy Rain, that looks cool. FFXIII, too...

I wonder, how long did it take the PS2 to really get going? Surely the PS3 is due a period of games like the 360 had last Christmas.

carrliadiere

@f0cus: Play TV, which means I'll be able to sell my PVR but probably upgrade my PS3 HDD.

Vestan_Pance

If this comes to America I'll buy it in an instant. You hear that Sony? Potential sales here!

Hyperfludd

Great box art. Awesome, really

Solidus

are you guys serious? LittleBigPlanet, Motorstorm:Pacific Rift, Resistance 2, Killzone 2, Socom:Confrontation, Bioshock, Valkyria Chronicles, Ragdoll Kungfu: Fists of Fury, Wipeout HD, The Agency, Infamous, Fat Princess are a few.

qBIRD

Little Fugly Box

Benjo

The box art is as good as the inside.

zgrowler2

@Benjo:

I think it'll go over well in Europe. It's got that "neo-80's" aesthetic that's fashionable nowadays.

LobselVith

now that is a bundle worth getting. I have to be honest when I grabbed my 60GB back in January there were 2 games I credited with "why I bought the system" - LBP and Uncharted. I just finished beating Uncharted a second time yesterday and went right back in and started it on the highest difficulty. LBP when it was shown in 2006 was intriguing, but I have to admit as it got closer and closer to completion I think it became a system seller. The community aspect alone will be something most gamers will agree is a trend in the right direction. Just like the whole "web 2.0" phenomenon this will open up developers eyes to including more community features into future games. just my 2c.

Seiven

I like that Sony is showing so much confidence in this off-the-wall game. This wouldn't have been a system seller in any significant volume unless Sony pushed it as one. Now I think it has the potential to move a lot of units.

robbo_the_hood

@Benjo: Hey, I think it's pretty nice actually. Of course not as badass as my MGS4 bundle box. :P

Đipic

@kidko: Do you understand LBP it has bright vibrant colors great gameplay and great fun, If us gamers have to sacrifice looking all girly buy buying tis we will. It's just to hard to resist hahaha

n64dude64

@Poisonous Taoist: I love it when people criticize someone else's grammar just to be an asshole while being wrong.

Depending on how you are using the company's name should dictate whether you are going to use it as a collective noun or a singular noun. When saying "Sony think LBP will be a system seller" you have to use it as a collective noun because a company doesn't think; the people who are a part of the company think. However, if you were saying that "Sony is one of the three major companies involved in this generation's console wars" you use it as a singular noun because you are describing the company itself.

Just remember, collective nouns are treated as plural in English. That is why you say "People think" rather than "People thinks." Now, if we were speaking in Spanish, then it would be correct that Sony should be used as a singular noun.

ceilingFANBOY

I actually want to play that game and all, but that box reminds me of the Sega Master System boxes.

Shin-san

I don't get how it looks so awesome. That box looks like some Barbie extreme playset I would buy for my 4-year old niece.

kidko

@Ping5000: That sentence is correct. Sony think, because Sony is a group.

Kind of like: "Men think women should stay in the goddamn kitchen and keep their mouths shut."

RaepGoblin

I can´t wait to get this game, october is not coming soon enough...

Daisuash

This game is going to rock!!!! I love PS3!!! WOOT

n64dude64

Little Big Planet does look fun, but it's not quite a system seller game for me. A commenter above said that Metal Gear Solid 4 should've been a system seller gamer for them - I agree. I'd rather buy a PS3 specifically for MGS4 than LBP.

The good thing about LBP is that's now 2 games exclusive games I wouldn't mind playing on the PS3. If the PS3 could get some more, I might jump on it at some point. After all, even if I don't like the games as much as I hope at least I can use it as a BluRay player. It would then have more use out of it than my launch day, waited in line for over 2 hours in the freezing cold and have barely touched it in over a year Wii. :(

TeamSakuraKC

Is this the PS3 with BC? Damn it, I was hoping for a bundle in the states just for this game. I hope they announce something soon before I pick up a PS3.

JP05

o lucky

TheNocturnalSun

@Herabec: @Fadakar: @Lyme: @insanewookie: You guys need to learn to contribute something to the comments and not just take up space whilst arbitrarily writing down your little flaming troll comments.

Every time I look at a LBP picture I want to scream like a little girl.
And America better get one of those bundles.

budash2

Now that's boxart.

Willy105

Want!

blindeye

They are lazy/greedy bastards for taking up exclusivity and not porting this to the 360. I hope this game sucks ass and sack man gets raped and tortured by old virtual men.

insanewookie

@insanewookie: Cry more retard.

Do we PS3 users cry like that on Halo, Gears of War, Fable II, Tales of Vasperia, or Mass Effect ?

Jeez..,you are indeed a 100% Dumbass fanboy.

xCruciaLx

This is most likely the game that will make me purchase a PS3.

So yes, this is a system seller. This better come to the US and the system better have some system compatibility, cause if it does, I'm absolutely sold.

HungryWolf AKA C of theCandSshow.com

@insanewookie: It has nothing to do with being lazy or greedy. Sony is publishing the game, why would they publish it for a competitors console? Same reason you wont see Gears of War on PS3, that and I believe MS owns all the rights to the franchise I think.

Exclusives are a good thing, it keeps the industry competitive and has them always trying to create more unique and innovative games. Don't be a fanboy, if you really like the game buy a PS3. It's nice to own all the consoles, that way you don't miss out on anything.

JP05

Why can't we get this bundle too?

Gingerbread0Man

Man,that's awesome! I might as well sell all my other consoles. The PS3 will take all of my time with this game, Resistance 2, Killzone 2, inFAmous, God of War III, MAG, and more.

Well, I guess I'll keep my other consoles. I don't need the money. And, even if I don't play them, they are nice decorations.

Xemnas

@xCruciaLx:
speaking of dumbass fanboy's...

I hope you dont actually think that "You PS3 owners" dont complain about 360 exclusive titles. Thats like a catholic priest that doesn't believe that a fellow catholic priest molested a child... because hes catholic.

@budash2:
no... u.

insanewookie

@Miksho: Yea, knitted sackboy looks a little scary. His smile is so... empty.

lumpi

@Gingerbread0Man: By we I meant the US :)

Gingerbread0Man

That boxart is an eyesore. It DOES look like a 12-year-old girl's MySpace page. All we need is some Lisa Frank stickers of unicorns.(do kids still buy those?) And more glitter!

I like the GT Prologue boxart. But there is no way I'm making a huge purchase based on the merits of it's packaging.

Dick.Blake

Ohh fuck yeah!! Now thats a box! good lord!! FUCKING AWESOME!!...where was I....yeah god that box art is awesome beyond belief
@insanewookie: shut up now....please

excel_excel

Stopped by Gamestop the other day and a couple of kids (girl looked about 8 and the boy looked 10) were getting their mom interested about the game. There were a decent amount of pre-orders for LBP made while I stood in line, too. I hope that there's a similar box for the US or at least a huge cardboard advertising the game to bring in the curious out of the loop folks.

The most that I've heard of LBP came from Kotaku or by checking out the ps3 magazine and that makes me sad.

superfrogsavestokyo

This LittleBigBundle might sell LittleBigSystems, but not to boys. I'm not going to buy one either, not because of the LittleBigBoxart, but because I want a LittleBig360.

ArgentAngel

@xCruciaLx: sounds like we need a friendly air strike from our resident comment czar.

@insanewookie: so you call out people being fanboys but you're acting like one... please shut the fuck up.

we don't tolerate half-assed baiting comments. only intelligent opinions apply.

zanzibarlegend

The last comment was supposed to be @Comments 'rnt Us...

Guess my reply button is bonked

ZENimilian

Haha! I am totally ZENegade! Those were my pictures I put there! I am the fabled Best Buy employee! I did it in the Library with the Candle Stick!

ZENimilian

Europe only? And I would have probably bought this too. That's right Sony, you're one bundle away from selling me on a PS3, and yet you're not going to release it in the US. Such a shame.

Xenigma

@jonathan.:

That's when you reply with "Yeah, I'm sure you were laughing all the way back home in the Revolutionary War." :P

Anyway, I'm sincerely jealous that the U.S. hasn't announced something like this yet. This is exactly what we need.

Ryuk

@Luke Plunkett: Maybe I'm just incorrect, but as far as I know, a company, entity, or anything using the word "everyone" is considered singular regardless of its number, because it's one collected organization...therefore you use "thinks" and not "think"..

And this is my opinion, but, regardless of whether the British made the language, we fixed it :] lol.

Ryuk

I WANT.

Chissu

From what I've seen, LittleBigPlanet may just be the game that forces me to get a PS3.

System seller, indeed. Hopefully this bundle will make it stateside.

PepsiPerfect

@budash2: How am I a troll? I said that I considered getting a PS3 because of this game, but 600 (or, $650 post game purchase) dollars for one game, no matter how good, is a little obscene.

Obviously I have to spell everything out in great detail so that those like you don't misconstrue my less direct statements.

I acknowledged it's a great game, but not a half thousand dollar game.

Herabec

@Herabec:

It's not really 600 though, only when directly converted which is a no no in the tech world since everything sold in the US pretty much gets converted directly to Euros there. This is a 399 PS3 with a free game included.

LittleBigPlaneteer

This bundle needs to come to the US. Please SCEA, pretty puhlease!

LittleBigPlaneteer

Dude. Sweet.

GTA4er

i hope they have a LBP bundle in North America, and heck Japan as well.

joeloliol

@haggis: *LittleBigPlaneteer, of course.

haggis

@Herabec: As LittleBigPlanet said, it will no doubt be a $399 PS3 in the US, game included, if that's the European price. The normal PS3 (80 GB) costs about $600 in Europe.

haggis

I already have a launch 60GB but I think I want to trawl ebay for this empty cardboard box........how sad am I.

DelSource

It would be stupid not to do this for North America as well...

Zombie_Crunch