Archive: november 20, 2008
"Volatile" Holiday Market Partly To Blame For LittleBigPlanet Sales [Playstation 3]
!["Volatile" Holiday Market Partly To Blame For LittleBigPlanet Sales [Playstation 3]](/images/news/41909_l.jpg)
Early sales on Media Molecule's LittleBigPlanet didn't quite set the world on fire. The game moved a solid if unspectacular 215,000 copies in the United States during its debut month of October — just four days, really — and 69,000 units during its first two weeks of availability in Japan. In the UK, it dropped quickly to nineteenth place on sales charts in its second week. Over a quarter million copies in a few days isn't bad, but it might not be the killer app exclusive emotionally invested PlayStation fans or Sony themselves were hoping for.
In the U.S., LittleBigPlanet got trounced...
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