Phil Harrison backs Sony's LBP delay decision

Everyone's got an opinion on this LittleBigPlanet delay. Even the current Infogrames directeur général délégué and former president of Sony Worldwide Studios, Phil Harrison, shared his thoughts. Speaking to GamesIndustry.biz before his Unite 08 event keynote in Copenhagen, Harrison said that Sony's decision wasn't going to be taken lightly but was something that took LBP's vision mission to heart: " ... I think it was absolutely the right thing to do, because LittleBigPlanet set out from day one to be a game for the entire world -- and if there was anything that accidentally detracted from that vision and made the game not fun for the entire world, then the game would have fundamentally failed in its mission."

While good old Phil thinks Sony made the right move, he doesn't discount the negative reaction that surely followed. He does, however, believe -- now as a neutral outsider -- that from what he's seen of LBP (he's played only the beta) he's convinced the game will be a success in the long run and this delay won't change things "one iota." Said Harrison, "[The delay] only seems to have heightened the anticipation, so I think it'll end up being a win, and full credit to Media Molecule for turning around a fix as quickly as they did."