Media Molecule talks LBP delay, reveals new release dates
- Posted October 17th, 2008 at 15:19 EDT by
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Media Molecule has commented on the recall of the highly anticipated title LittleBigPlanet. As many of you are already aware, Sony has begun a global recall due to offensive material found within the soundtrack of the game. We've included an excerpt from the developers below; they're just as disappointed as we are.
"We learnt yesterday that there is a lyric in one of the licensed tracks which some people may find offensive, and which slipped through the usual screening processes. Obviously MM and Sony together took this very seriously. LBP should be enjoyable by all. So within 12 hours of hearing about this issue involving a lyric (in Somalian, I believe!), we prepared an automatic day 0 patch and had a new disk image ready; however a decision was made within Sony that the right thing to do for quality and support of people with no online was to replace existing disks. They assure us that they are doing everything in their power to get things straightened out as fast as possible, and will announce dates soon."
LittleBigPlanet will be released on October 27 in the United States and October 31 in Europe. Coincidentally, this was the original release date for Europe before the game was moved up a week.
Stay tuned for our review of LittleBigPlanet this weekend.
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Skint0n3
- 3:24pm BST - October 17th, 2008
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Fack G.I. u took my sunshine... 2nd... aiight that was wack. not as wack as lbp delays tho. with 4 days left? y sony y? how many n!99as and h0ez did i hear on the soundtrack for gta4 and that wasnt recalled. um sony ur welcome to remove ya heads from ya rectums whenever ur comfortable
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inked13
- 3:29pm BST - October 17th, 2008
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Ok, this is ridiculous. This game is about being creative.If I complain that I am offended by something will you delay it for everyone else and fix what i don't like. Ok, I am offended by fire and and i think you should remove it from the game!!! seriously this is crazy, eveyone is worried about making others angry instead of releasing things the way they created it. If they don't like the lyric or whatever then don't buy the game. I am sure this is going to sell well. Thanks a bunch for delaying a the game! why allow it to be sold to those that don't care about the lyric or what it means etc......
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selfish
- 3:31pm BST - October 17th, 2008
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This really pisses me off! Now I have Motorstorm 2 and LBP arriving the same day (sort of) and R2 arriving a week later, this blows. I pre ordered all but none of them are paid off and I have a certain budget to adhere to (a wife and 2 kids barely allows that). I feel like kicking someones @*ss right now. Sony should know by now that controversy follows them even while sleeping. They should've known and not included this song, period.
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B4yron
- 3:53pm BST - October 17th, 2008
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If they replace the discs for offensive content they should replace my Burnout Paradise copy too for it being in miles and yards and not being able to set it in French whilst this was all possible in the DEMO. I bought it in the netherlands, should have bought it in Belgium...
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BlueSteel18 |
BlueSteel18- 3:56pm BST - October 17th, 2008
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That's. I can wait 6 extra days. Even though I wouldn't be offended the right thing to do is remove the content. Good job on Sony's part and MM for manning up to the mistake and for taking swift action to fix it.
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cerote |
cer0ez- 4:05pm BST - October 17th, 2008
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This is crazy because the stores already have the discs. I was at gamestop wensday picking up Dead space and he asked if I wanted to pick up my copy. The manager heard him and stepped in to say that they had the disc but they were street dated. Now I wish she was not near to hear it so I would have my copy.
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adeebo |
adeebo22- 4:14pm BST - October 17th, 2008
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markwesker,, i dont think that somalia has a big ps3 install base, but guess what it was offending to all muslim, and guess what how many muslim countries are out there, and how many muslims players have a ps3, i do think it would hurt the sales.
@ 8, i really do feel bad for u, so u think that a terrorist would be sitting on his couch and playing a ps3 eh? grow up
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TheWorldEndsWithMe |
DonovanTheICEMAN- 4:26pm BST - October 17th, 2008
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Great, the xbots are gonna jump up and all of the sudden pretend to be righteous.
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dannysutton2003 |
A_LengendKiller- 4:39pm BST - October 17th, 2008
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to be fair on sony...i dont think they have a choice....do you think they would of wanted to do this??? no...but it had to be done. i hate it when games are delayed, but this is 1 of those times...where there is simply not alot they can do. cheer up guys...week till far cry 2 :D
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Merovingian
- 4:52pm BST - October 17th, 2008
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6 days later... Way faster than I've expected. Congrats Sony for taking it so seriously and proving us how different they're fom M$ who sells products knowing they about their massive problems!
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AWAKE
- 5:01pm BST - October 17th, 2008
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no more posts in the previous one but i have to say it
HOLYYYYYYYYWAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRR.LOL
AND @ JODIEE CAN U TLL ME THE NAME OF THE SONG I AM REALLY INTERESTED,and i want to download it.
@ adeebo in somalia they speak arabic,anyway it says it's from quran,and Quran is arabic u know.lol
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markwesker
- 5:12pm BST - October 17th, 2008
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@adeebo f@@K off and pray,nobody can post a comment without u jumping on them.if this is what muslims do nowonder people hate your out of date religion.every other religion doesnt moan but yours.if this what happens over something so small what else is gonna happen to control what we say or write in a song.freedom forever ....now get on your magic carpet and do 1,its obvious your trying to control people`s expressions on ere
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Staticneuron |
Staticneuron- 5:13pm BST - October 17th, 2008
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If it removes things that offend, in any religion, then thats fine. That is not the intent of the creators of the game. I have played many games which can be considered offensive.... but that was the goal that they were aiming for. Let MM and Sony keep it as clean as possible. What happens afterwards is no fault of theirs.
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adeebo |
adeebo22- 5:18pm BST - October 17th, 2008
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Awake u r so mistaken, somalese dont speak arabiiiiiiic wow ma:p how many times do i have to enplain ok here is a link about somalia and its language if u dont belive me, it doesnt say nything about arabic
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Somalia
@27 man i totally agree with u, and i think gaming should be an enjoyable experience, not place to spread racism.
and llol i think PSU should give us an award for breaking the record in the last topic for LBP, I BIT THERE IS NO OTHER TOPIC IN PSU SINCE IT LAUNCHED THAT HAD THAT MUCH COMMENTS LOOOOL.
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adeebo |
adeebo22- 5:20pm BST - October 17th, 2008
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Awake u r so mistaken, somalese dont speak arabiiiiiiic wow ma:p how many times do i have to enplain ok here is a link about somalia and its language if u dont belive me, it doesnt say nything about arabic
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Somalia
@27 man i totally agree with u, and i think gaming should be an enjoyable experience, not place to spread racism.
and llol i think PSU should give us an award for breaking the record in the last topic for LBP, I BIT THERE IS NO OTHER TOPIC IN PSU SINCE IT LAUNCHED THAT HAD THAT MUCH COMMENTS LOOOOL.
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markwesker
- 5:29pm BST - October 17th, 2008
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@abeebo i think a story about ff13 had the most comments ever lol,i think people should not argue about religion and should not enter politics or gaming .i much prefer to argue about some idiots on ere who think unique games like ff13 going multiplat is good for gaming.after all this is what this site is for.
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AWAKE
- 5:37pm BST - October 17th, 2008
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dude i dont have to wiki somalia to find that,
again a Somalis dude told me that
somalia is a shock up country with alot of their cities fightn for independence u know and as every other african country out there they have there own languages but THE the legit language in there is arabic,
again QURAN IS IN ARABIC AND THIS TOPIC IS ABOUT STUFF THAT OFFENDS THE QURAN NOT THE SOMALIS.
and markwesker kudos for the last post. although personally i still think ur a do*che .LOL
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shaunot123 |
sniperman123 or Shaun__93- 5:45pm BST - October 17th, 2008
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people here don't seem to understand that if someone had been affended then they could sue sony and Mm for millions and if that was to happen in like a week of the release, we could see a company with great potenial(Mm) file for bankruptcy(bad spelling, I'm sorry if I affended anyone lol) It is like an extra few days, So I say man up and look foward to Littlebigplanet 2 because they haven't been sued.
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HalfOfZero |
HalfOfZero- 5:51pm BST - October 17th, 2008
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I hope someone creates a map, with blocks grouped sayin "F*** RELIGION/ISLAM' or the old favourite, "MOHAMMED ENJOYED MAN LOVE" , just to tip the hat to this crap. My thoughts lie with Media Molecule, and hope they don't go sunbathin in the Middle East anytime soon... It'll be Ken Bigly all over again..........
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Staticneuron |
Staticneuron- 6:25pm BST - October 17th, 2008
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The explained that they chose not to go the route of a patch because tat requires an internet connection. I guess people here on this site forget how privaliged we are.
AWAKE, the official language of Somalia is...... wait for it....... Somali. Arabic is recognized and so is english but that doesn't make those the official language.
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Imperium
- 6:27pm BST - October 17th, 2008
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What crap. Is Muhammad in the game?! Why are people so worried about offending Muslims? If it was Christian or Jewish this wouldn't be happening. Are they afraid that little extremists Sackboys are gonna go bomb LittleBigPlanet? Delaystation strikes again. 1st Socom runs like crap, now this.
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A_Ninja |
Arabia_Ninja- 7:30pm BST - October 17th, 2008
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i think that SONY got fooled by that guy who send them the later ... i am arabic .. born and raised in United Arab Emirates ... born in a muslim conservative family ... and i am sure that there are nothing from Qur'an mentioned in that musice from LBP soundtrack ... its just some arab pepole love to connect everything in the world and make it looks like it aginst islam or muslime ... so they can increase the HATERS ... POOR SONY ... THY FALL FOR IT ...
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Trojans24601 |
trojans24601- 7:30pm BST - October 17th, 2008
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guy's comon it's a rated E for everybody game... if there is something offensive it should be removed good job MM for rectifying the situation
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Staticneuron |
Staticneuron- 7:32pm BST - October 17th, 2008
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Falogar
That is a stupid comparison because that doesn't offend christians not even the extreme one's I have met. Yet have a burning nativity scene where the goal is to kick baby Jesus to safety then i would imagine it would rattle a vocal amount of people.
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RandomBeef
- 7:59pm BST - October 17th, 2008
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xD what a dumb excuse. But yet again Europe hets it last.....
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chahady |
chahady- 8:40pm BST - October 17th, 2008
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@ anyone throwing a fit and blaming Muslims: how can you possibly generalize that all Muslims are to blame for this. Its hilarious that its so easy for you to hold millions of people responsible for the delay of a video game just like that. I won't bs anyone im not happy that its delayed but i have respect for sony because that took a lot of class to do. But here, lets make you kids happy say that it is offending Muslims, has anyone ever heard of a something called ethical responsibility? In making LBP, I seriously doubt that MM were trying to offend anyone but in case they do, how likely is it that that group of people will want to buy a MM game again? Or if sony just let it go how likely is it for those people to buy Sony? Plus the more people they offend the bigger the consequences. I know its tough but you guys have to look way beyond yourselves. Sony and MM have so much to lose in terms of law suits and the potential of losing thousands of customers over this. They’re pretty smart guys its obviously not worth it.
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