There was a time, when the Internet was starting to reach consoles, where everything seemed possible. New worlds, thousands of people playing at the same time, servers with endless power, maps and maps to spend hours in an eternal gameplay. And then, the cruel reality came: the consoles that were left behind have gradually been left without online functions and you can’t even play a sad Mario Kart on the 3DS anymore. That’s how it is.
Little planet, smile again
The latest to suffer this cut, and also abruptly and without prior notice, has been ‘Little Big Planet 3’. The servers for this game for PS4 have closed “indefinitely” (that is, forever), leaving millions of creations uploaded to the cloud completely lost. Apparently, Sony has said that the server was constantly causing problems and the decision has been to turn it off without looking back.
The game has lasted a more than honorable ten years, but if any new player was looking forward to getting into user-generated levels, I’m afraid they will encounter a constant error on their screen. Luckily, you can still play all the levels you have downloaded, as well as create them offline for yourself. But without being able to share them with anyone, of course. Half the fun, down the drain.
The truth is that after this third part ‘Little Big Planet’ fell into oblivion, with an unexpected return in 2020, where a spin-off of Sackboy, its protagonist, appeared… and a mobile endless running game also starring him. And there doesn’t seem to be any indication that PS5 will surprise us with a ‘Little Big Planet 4’. There is still room for cuteness at Sony. We cross our fingers very tightly: maybe this ending is just a new beginning.
