Many moons ago, Microsoft once had its eye on the Sony-published LittleBigPlanet series.
Speaking with MinnMax, Mark Healey – who co-founded LittleBigPlanet developer Media Molecule back in 2006 – revealed that during the early stages of the game, the Xbox maker was “on the prowl” and was “kind of trying to steal” the studio from going with Sony.
“The funny thing is, we actually didn’t have anything in writing to say that we were actually going to continue with [Sony] or that they even owned what we were doing, is my memory of it,” Healey said of LittleBigPlanet, before sharing more on Microsoft’s poaching efforts.
“Technically, we could have done [that]. We could have been like, ‘Yeah fuck it, let’s go with Microsoft. They are probably going to give us a load of money.'”
However, Healey said Media Molecule wouldn’t have felt right doing that, adding it would have been “morally corrupt”. As to how this proposition from Microsoft actually looked, well, it wasn’t with the slide of a contract and a sly wink. Rather, it was a booze-infused pitch at the end of a night out.