There will be no sequel for the popular Media Molecule game “Little Big Planet”.
The puzzle platformer, which thrives on its own community’s user generated content, has been one of Sony’s most successful and loved exclusives for the PlayStation 3, but Media Molecule level designer Danny Leaver says any sequel would be harmful for the community the original has built up, and thus won’t happen. “We’d never want to do that,” Leaver says in an interview with UK gaming site Critical Gamer. “That’d be the most counterproductive thing you could do, I think.” His words were backed up the company’s producer, Martin Lynagh, who says that Media Molecule will continue to support the original “Little Big Planet” with downloadable content and various other updates, but that “I think what you’ve seen so far from “Little Big Planet”… that’s the way it’s going to continue.”
“Little Big Planet” was launched in the October of last year, and has reached an online community number of almost two million by within just six months, as of April this year. A PSP version of the light-hearted, multi player platform game is due for release on the seventeenth of November. Speculation that a sequel was on the way was generated by a job listing in June that revealed that Media Molecule was recruiting staff for a “ground breaking, AAA, PS3 title for Sony Computer Entertainment”, but it would now appear that, whatever that project actually is, it certainly is not a sequel to “Little Big Planet”.
