Friday, October 17, 2008

Koran Passages in Music to Delay LittleBigPlanet

Perhaps the most anticipated game ever, LittleBigPlanet is going to be delayed some period of time because one of the songs contains passages from the Koran. Awful, awful news. I got to participate in the beta, and I and all of the reviews thus far can tell you that this game is going to be a huge deal. Sony is likely crapping their pants, to put it in the classiest way I can. This Kotaku post explains the situation the best from what I've read.

What can you do? Apparently, Muslims find singing the words of the Koran offensive, if I understand this correctly. Once Sony finds this out, they can't realistically just release the game and promise a patch, because anyone who isn't connected to the internet never receives that patch. I guess this is the only option this far down the road to release... They have to just re-manufacture all of the game discs with this minute change. Ugh...

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Should Sony hire a religious affairs advisor to help with questions like this? Discuss it at FaithWorld -- http://blogs.reuters.com/faithworld/2008/10/21/does-sony-need-a-religious-affairs-adviser/

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