The rise of Sackboy, the mascot PlayStation has been searching for
When 2012 is all said and done Sony will have released three games starring Sackboy, the nondescript hessian bag of fluff and ice cream who made his name in Media Molecule’s ground-breaking create-your-own platformer LittleBigPlanet.One of these, LittleBigPlanet Vita, has already launched and wowed critics. LittleBigPlanet Karting is out today and PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale releases later this year.Sackboy’s star has risen almost unnoticed, but given LBP’s continued success perhaps it comes as no surprise. An impressive 8.5 million LBP games have been sold thus far (not taking into account LBP Vita). That’s across the three games in the series: LBP, LBP PSP and LBP2. Sony is proud of its 91 per cent Metacritic average across those three games, but it is delighted by the community’s seemingly never-ending appetite for user-generated content: over seven million levels have been created on PS3 – or 35,000 per week.Read more…
