When you consider all the hype and praise that Media Molicule’s LittleBigPlanet is getting from press and gamers alike, one would be led to believe that LBP would be selling like hotcakes.

Unfortunately, that doesn’t seem to be the case. According to Gamasutra, which is a real video game news website, the cute, quirky, glorious little platformer sold a measly 141,000 units in November. This ranked it as the 4th highest selling PlayStation 3 game for that month behind Call of Duty: World at War, Resistance 2 and Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe. It didn’t even rank for the November Top 20.

PS3 owners should be ashamed of themselves.

In October, LBP sold 215,000 units. An improvement, but still terribly under what everyone was expecting. So this begs the question: What the hell?

I blame the marketing, myself. Yes, the ads are cute as hell, but they do a terrible job of explaining to the average thumb-up-ass game player exactly what LittleBigPlanet is. If they would spend more time on the “make your own game” aspect of LBP instead of their current approach, which seems to be “you WILL love Sackboy!”, sales would improve.

Then again, I could be terribly wrong.

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