text: Sales Despite the wide publicity LittleBigPlanet had before and after release, sales dwindled before 2009. In the UK, LittleBigPlanet entered the all-formats charts, recorded by the ELSPA, at #4 before dropping, being at #19 by November 2008. before dropping to #29. LittleBigPlanet sales increased by 58 per cent and raised it from #29 to #16 in the charts by mid-December. In the US, the game sold 356,000 units during October and November placing it fourth amongst all PlayStation 3 software sales for that period. It entered October's chart, recorded by the NPD Group, at #8 before falling out of the top 20 by the end of November. In Japan, LittleBigPlanet had 52,000 copies sold. Sony responded to the lacklustre sales by saying that they were pleased by the performance, citing the LittleBigPlanet being a new IP and claiming that it was released in an "incredibly volatile time of year and the chart reflects that."
  In January 2009, Sony announced that the game had sold 611,000 units in North America up to the end of December 2008 and that LittleBigPlanet sold 1.3 million units worldwide. The game sold 300,000 units at the beginning of February 2009. By March 2010, the game has sold over 3 million copies worldwide. Following the PSN outage in April 2011, LittleBigPlanet gained 1.5 million new users. By October 2018, LittleBigPlanet had sold 4 million copies.