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David Reeves, president of SCEE made quite a stir in the community when he announced that users will be able to charge for created content. Says Reeves, "What we're trying to do with LittleBigPlanet is almost iTunes meets eBay in the sense that once an individual or a developer has qualified by producing certain levels or certain add-ons, they will then be able in the future to exchange these and make money out of them." He added, "Eventually, it's feasible that you might well see the first LittleBigPlanet millionaire!". While quite a strong claim, it is still undetermed what exactly the qualification is to be able to sell content, and what the pricing structure might look like.

This was later clarified by both David Reeves and Alex Evans as being a possibility that may be done in the future: "LBP can do X, Y or Z - and that's where it was misinterpreted, that we will do X, Y or Z. " Evans intends to wait for the reaction of the community before putting any such system in place, but is reluctant to comment further on their plans. Evans states that "if we can find ways to incentivise people to make fantastic levels, we'll do it", but is quick to clarify that by saying "the last thing we want to do is piss anybody off, or reduce the size of the community".

In early August '08, Sony announced that pre-order bonus characters Kratos (God of War) and Nariko (Heavenly Sword) would be made available at various outlets across North America and most parts of Europe. The God of War skin is available from Gamestop, and the Heavenly Sword skin is available at Best Buy in the US.
In the UK, the Kratos character was available as an exclusive free download which came as a free voucher with the Playstation Official Magazine UK.
Also announced was a sticker book, strategy guide, and game-carrying case. The Nariko character download was announced as an exclusive download attached to pre-orders of the game from Play.com.

Recently announced was additional God of War content for those who pre-order at Gamestop.  In addition to the Kratos costume, those who pre-order through Gamestop will receive Minotaur and Medusa costumes for Sackboy, a special God of War themed level pack, and the tools to build your own God of War themed levels. 

For those who purchase the game in the first week, there will be some great bonus content, totally free.  The first item available is a spacesuit for Sackboy, only available for download in the first week. Along with making sackboy an astronaut for being online week one, players can also download the special "I Was There Week 1" t-shirt, which sackboy can wear. Both items will likely be very hot items for Sackboy to show off.

During the Leipzig Games Convention, Pete Smith, senior producer for LittleBigPlanet, revealed that user generated content published by users on the PSN will be region specific, due to the fact that each territory will be getting their own dedicated server. However, Sony would later deny this report by indicating that the issue of having content on their own dedicated server is being worked around, thus stating that LittleBigPlanet's content will not be region-locked.

It was announced on September 22nd, 2008 by a developer on the Playstation.com Forums that LittleBigPlanet would not include the ability to create levels in online multiplayer at launch, although this feature will later be included in a free update. Players will still be able to create levels offline and share and play them online at launch.

On October 8th, 2008 Sony showed new costumes for Sackboy at the Tokyo Game Show. Players will be able to make Sackboy stealthy assassin Solid Snake or mindless, soulless, personality-less supervillain from Final Fantasy VII, Sephiroth. No news on whether or not level design pieces from either game are coming.

Interesting Trivia

• When Media Molecule was looking for a publisher; Nintendo was extremely interested and had sighted them and were also planning to meet for a deal, but Sony got to them first and made LittleBigPlanet a Playstation 3 exclusive.
• The week before the original release of October 21, 2008 the game was delayed worldwide because one of the licensed music tracks had lyrics from the Qu'ran, which Sony deemed potentially offensive.

Downloadable Content

• Spaceman Costume
• Limited Time-Only Halloween Costume
• Lilly Pad Frog Costume
• Hugo Gorilla Costume
• Great Blue Shark Costume
• Frost-E Penguin Costume
• Sack-Eating Plant Costume
• MotorStorm Costume
• Sack-in-the-Box Costume
• LocoRoco Costumes
• Resistance 2 (Chimera) Costume
• Seasonal Exclusive Turkey Head Costume