After all of today’s crazy-ass news regarding the LittleBigPlanet delay, the one question everyone is asking is “when will we get to play?”  From all indications, it seems that in order to remedy the situation, Sony will need to recall all the existing copies, physically open the cases, remove and discard the discs, burn new discs without the offending song, print new box art that exclusively states that this is a new version of the game, repackage everything, then reship all two million plus copies back to retailers.  That could take just short of forever.  Or two weeks.

Sony has announced, via its PlayStation Blog, that they will be shipping the game the week of October 27.

“We will begin shipping LittleBigPlanet to retail in North America the week of October 27th. Sorry for the delay, and rest assured, we are doing everything we can to get LittleBigPlanet to you as soon as possible.”

The game’s original release date was October 21, so this is a two week delay at the most; far shorter than many of us expected.  How is Sony going to do this?  We have no idea.  In fact, it almost seem impossible.  Perhaps they’ll just ship every copy with a guy who screams “LA LA LA, I CAN’T HEAR YOU!” whenever the song plays.  That’s my guess, and I’m pretty sure it’s right.

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