LittleBigPlanet Gets Stranger

[Crashpunk]

It’s a LittleBigOddworld after all! Or something like that. Now you can dress your Sackboy up as everyone’s favorite crossbow-wielding, poncho-sporting bounty hunter with a deadly secret and deadly breath, with this brand new LittleBigPlanet 2 costume. The Stranger costume comes with everything you associate with the character’s iconic get up, including the wide-brimmed hat, massive boots, and of course that custom-built, critter-firing, double-barrel crossbow (Warning: Crossbow may not operate functionally within LBP2).

Sackboy and you will be able to gain access to this new wardrobe-winner on Wednesday 9 November 2011 (variable by region) for the low, low price of £1.59, €1.99, US $1.99, AUS $ 3.45 or NZD $3.90—whichever currency fills your wallet.

isn't he adorable :3 naturally, I want to see a Abe one.

[DarkHoodness]

Hah, it's nice to see them doing stuff like this - They even hinted at there being glukkons, sligs and mudokons too, but we'll have to wait and see what they actually release.

[AvengingGibbons]

Ha, that's adorable! I don't do LBP though. Had the first one, seemed a bit glitchy, and was too baby-ish for me.

[Jordan]

That's the cutest thing ever.

[Dynamithix]

Aww, he's so cute.

[MeechMunchie]

That actually is cute.

Oddworld's moving into the public eye again!

[STM]

Dawww sho cuuute! <3 it.

[Bodd T.W.]

I hope that Sekto doesn't look this cute too, or else it'll look like babies are playing with each other in the final battle:?

[Nate]

As I posted in the comment thread, Australians (and New Zealanders) are getting ripped off. What the heck is with that?


I mean, this doesn't affect me directly, given that I traded in LBP two weeks ago to get Ico and SotC, but it's the principle of the thing.

[enchilado]

AUS should be AUD, too.

[Nate]

That too.

[Phylum]

Our dollar is actually stronger than the USD at the moment. That's fucking absurd.

[STM]

Perhaps it's because Australia imports all its games from other countries, I mean, does it have its own game manufacturing plants?

[Phylum]

I'm fairly sure America doesn't have a factory for producing physical copies of DLC either.

[Manco]

As I posted in the comment thread, Australians (and New Zealanders) are getting ripped off. What the heck is with that?

Probably the same reason Australians get ripped off on all video games. Don’t you guys basically pay double what the US does?

[Wil]

Don't Australian prices include VAT while US prices don't?

[moxco]

I don't think we have to pay on international purchases - provided it is under $1000.

[Bullet Magnet]

The world is getting back at you guys for all that drop bear nonsense. You bastards.

[Nate]

MoxCo: V.A.T. is the British equivalent of GST.

Max: Depends where you are in America. But it's a moot point, because that only adds 10% to the price, not 80%.

[moxco]

Yeah I know. We only have to pay GST on domestic purchases, unless Max means that we are paying British VAT when we purchase it, though then why wouldn't Americans have to pay also?

[Nate]

Yeah I know. We only have to pay GST on domestic purchases, unless Max means that we are paying British VAT when we purchase it, though then why wouldn't Americans have to pay also?

He's theorising that when we purchase something from an Australian-based online store that we have to pay GST. Given that a price was expressed in Australian dollars that wasn't simply a conversion of the British or American prices, it's not a bad assumption.

[STM]

One of you Australian blokes should set up a game company with cheap import prices and stuff on your games, you'd have an enormous monopoly by the sounds of it.

[Bullet Magnet]

Also take over the government to make them grow up and stop censoring/banning games that are less awful than your natural fauna.

[Paul_hibs3]

Silly question but I'm not sure:

If I buy this does any money go to OWI/JAW? Or is it just to Sony/Media Molecule?

[Dynamithix]

I'm pretty sure JAW gets some of the profit of it too, but so does Sony.

[Crashpunk]

I'm not completly sure but I think OWI and JAW get more then Sony because they actually made Stranger.

[Phylum]

That's rampant speculation.

Plus, if anything, it would make more sense for Sony/MM to get more money because it's advertising.

[Nate]

One of you Australian blokes should set up a game company with cheap import prices and stuff on your games, you'd have an enormous monopoly by the sounds of it.

Imports are expensive to Australia. As for digital downloads, the publishers would just withhold their games from any seller that tried to match international prices. It's a known-and-not-secret-anymore practice.

[Xavier]

Cute little Sack Stranger

Any idea if any other set is planned? Like an Abe one?

[Crashpunk]

I think when Munch's Oddysee HD is coming out we'll get a Abe and Munch sackboys? Maybe i'm just being optimistic.