Tipsy Microsoft Exec Once Attempted to Steal LittleBigPlanet from Sony
Media Molecule said the move would have been "morally corrupt".
Media Molecule is best known these days as the developer behind Dreams. Still, the studio rose to prominence from the back of its LittleBigPlanet series, with mascot Sackboy becoming synonymous with PlayStation. According to studio co-founder Mark Healey, in the early days, Microsoft was "on the prowl" and "kind of trying to steal" the studio from Sony, resulting in a drunken proposition.
Healey revealed the salacious tale to MinnMax (thanks, Eurogamer), where he showed how loose the initial relation with PlayStation platform holder Sony was: "The funny thing is, we didn't have anything in writing to say that we were actually going to continue with or that they even owned what we were doing, is my memory of it."
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