Excited by the prospect of LittleBigPlanet on the go? Why wouldn't you be? Sony has been promising the PSP version would be extremely similar to it's PlayStation 3 brother, and early videos and impressions seem to suggest that as a fact. The inclusion of a full level creator and next-gen physics, too, showed how much the PSP was really capable of, and the answer was more than many thought. However, today Sony confirmed that there's a tiny, albeit important omission from the handheld version of LittleBigPlanet: the PSP port will be missing a multiplayer component.

"It's a trade-off. The system is physically capable of doing multiplayer, but perhaps not with the full physics system. On the technical side of things you lose a third of the processing power or a third of the system memory just to do multiplayer at all. With those limitations we couldn't achieve it," senior producer Mark Green was quoted as saying in an interview with Eurogamer. He also punched a child and ate a kitten.

This is a little bit of a downer, especially with all of the positive press the franchise has received in the past. While it didn't end up being the highlight of the PS3 version (thanks to the limitations of the PlayStation network leading to more lag than appropriate), the ability to have a few friends playing together was absolutely a selling point for LittleBigPlanet. Leaving it out of the PSP version just feels... wrong. Hopefully the game's platforming will make up for the omission, because the game's lack of multiplayer counts against it in a big, big way.