Alex Evans, der Kopf hinter Media Molecule, erklärte kürzlich in einem Interview gegenüber VG247 warum "Little Big Planet 2" nun erst im nächsten Jahr erscheinen wird.
Das Spiel ist gemäss Alex Evans eigentlich fertig. Allerdings sind die Entwickler mit einigen Aspekten im Spiel nicht ganz zufrieden .
Ein nachträgliches Patchen des Games via PlayStation Network kommt für Alex Evans und sein Team allerdings nicht in Frage. Nicht jeder PlayStation 3 Besitzer sei am Netz, so die Begründung. Die eigenen hohen Ansprüche am Titel würden eine zu frühe Veröffentlichung nicht zulassen.
Jeder Käufer soll über ein "super tolles Erlebnis" schwärmen können.
“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.
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 percent 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 week’s we could make the game super amazing, adding the super onto the already amazing which exists today. This is something that will live forever and the delay, people will forget about.
I’m really sorry the delay frustrated people, even us, I mean I really wanted to get this game out for Christmas so hard. We pushed ourselves but realised with just a few more weeks we could make it perfect."