Offline users delay 'LittleBigPlanet 2'

Media Molecule has explained LittleBigPlanet 2's delay.

Studio head Alex Evans told VG247 that the offline userbase of the PS3 meant that releasing the game this year and then issuing updates to polish it was out of the question.

"Like LittleBigPlanet, we will be supporting the game with patches, updates and whatever, but you have to realise right from the beginning that there are those people who don't have online and that is why we decided it was the right decision to delay the game," he said.

"In the end, the main reason for it, though, was just that we played the game and in the end realised that we had to make the Blu-ray perfect, and I don't mean 100% perfect, but I just mean something we are proud of.

"We respect people don't have online and don't want to patch their game to get the full experience. We could have shipped it and it would have been fine, however we realised that with just a couple of extra weeks we could make the game super amazing, adding the super on to the already amazing which exists today."

Evans added that the final product will "live forever", whereas the delay will be soon forgotten.

LittleBigPlanet 2 was originally scheduled for November and will now be released in January 2011.

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