I want Little Big Planet on the 360

I recently played through the campaign of Little Big Planet with a few of my friends. We had an absolute blast going through the game, sticking giant peacock feathers on each other, and smacking each other with frying pans. The game is wonderful and has a cute and endearing art style. However, once we had finished the campaign and checked out a few user created levels I felt there really wasn’t that much left to do.

I can’t help but thinking, at least for me, that if Little Big Planet came out on the 360 I would get so much more use out of it. Xbox Live is so much more of a social experience than the Playstation Network. Whenever I turn on my Xbox for anything the first thing I do is check who else is on. If LBP were on the 360 I would have friends online to play with, a headset to chat with them, and probably a much more booming user generated content to explore.

All of these are offered on the PS3, but I only know two people who own one and neither of them have a headset. The network is slow and shoddy at best, and a lot of the downloadable content needs to be installed. I still have no idea how to install the new free costumes I downloaded. I don’t even know where they ended up. Also I only have one controller and can’t really justify buying a couple more for 55 dollars each for the occasional local LBP games. We were only able to play through it together because one of my friends has a few controllers he brought with him.

I don’t want to hate on the PS3, it’s a powerful console with a lot of potential and LBP is an excellent game that probably wouldn’t have been possible without Sony’s support. I’m just saying for me at least, and probably many others; LBP would have been a lot more successful on the 360. Hopefully in time the PS3 can catch up to the 360 in terms of dashboard and online functionality. A few more games couldn’t hurt either, but I think they are well on their way.