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Microsoft uses LittleBigPlanet tune

Of all the tunes in the world...
Check out this US Xbox Live advert and you may recognise that the catchy jingle in the background as the song commonly associated with LittleBigPlanet. Seriously...

The song wasn't actually created by Media Molecule - it's a licensed track called 'Get it Together' by a band called 'The Go! Team'. But considering most of us would never had heard it were it not for Sony's cutesy platformer, that distinctive whistle has become synonymous with the PS3-exclusive.

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Microsoft, however, doesn't appear to give a hoot with this ad (spotted by Kotaku).

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Posted by BenJy!
Erm...ROFL!
Posted by WHERESMYMONKEY
LOL! Thats almost as good as the time Sony used the legend of Zelda theme at a press conference.
Posted by Mark240473
You've got to laugh, haven't you? :lol:
Posted by BenJy!
*Currently can't type yet, still ROFL'ing*
Posted by wiikii007
LOL!
Posted by Dajmin
I think it's pretty obvious what games the MS promo team plays then, huh?
Can't blame them though, it's a kickass soundtrack.
Posted by wbfshez
Almost genius.
:shock:
Posted by milky_joe
Oops. :lol:
Posted by svd_grasshopper
best tune is uncle jalapeno's stage.
Posted by StonecoldMC
A great Song by a great Band from a great Album.

Good old MS.
Posted by Shaunyboy12
" You can play online games with your friends..." Hmm, she failed to mention the fact if you want to play with your friends online your gonna have to fork out extra cash.
Posted by blagger
The cheeky scamps :lol:

Amusing really!
Posted by Chimpanzee
This isn't news! Just because idiot fanboys have been ZOMGing about it on forums for a could of days, doesn't mean news sites have to start talking about it too. It just validates their idiocy.
Posted by Mark240473
I'm looking forward to the 'Tiny Large World' game that MS have yet to announce. Oh, and 'Precipitation of encumbrance' and 'Deity of Battle' sound good as well.

Why don't they go the full hog and release 'Sprocket and Wrench'?

:lol:
Posted by footieharry
impossible quiz!
Posted by SuperCinos
To be fair, it's an 8 year old song so it wasn't made for Little Big Planet and so long as Microsoft paid for the rights to use it, they can use it in whatever they like (unless of course they then use it in their latest game "Small Huge Galaxy" then there might be a problem).

I'm more concerned with the 'Free' internet comment in that ad. Yeah, free...after you've forked out £40 for the yearly sub, on top of whatever your provider charges, and £60 quid for a wireless adapter (if you need it of course).

Not saying it's wrong, because silver access is free, but that comment is incredibly misleading.
Posted by shellster2
MS are kind of taking the p!ss with that choice. Didn't Sony once use images of PGR4 when advertising games on the PS3? I'm sure it was something like that.

To be fair it's not MS's or Sony's fault for these gaff's, it's the stupid agency they use to put it together. Then it gets signed off by someone at MS or Sony who doesn't know anything about games.
Posted by nb_nmare2
Don't forget 'Deathplace', 'Insurrection: Collapse of Humanity', and 'Undiscovered: Nelson's Wealth'.
Posted by WHERESMYMONKEY
the unmissable ' ruralmyth' and then there's te upcoming 'attack area deux'
Posted by almanac2015
Well that advert did a good job. I listened to the music, and now feel the need to go on LBP. :)
Posted by stickmus
Haha, talk about 360/PS3 baiting. This is a ridiculous article.



Hmmm, actually the other way round for me, I never knew the song was used on LBP until this article.
Posted by ricflair
»Haha, talk about 360/PS3 baiting. This is a ridiculous article.



Ditto. Quite amusing, not sure I'm be rolling on the floor though. And it's a recorder, not a bloody whistle!

Saying 'CONNECT FOR FREE' at the end of the video, they should be ****ing shot for that. Paying £26/yr isn't that big a deal to me, but it's not free!!!
Posted by Conkers
»Haha, talk about 360/PS3 baiting. This is a ridiculous article.



Same here, I bought The Go! Team’s first album when it came out, it’s quite a good debut, I wonder what happened to them. Anyway, I’m pretty sure this song has been used on adverts before Sony’s, and will be after Microsoft’s.
Posted by Conkers
»»Haha, talk about 360/PS3 baiting. This is a ridiculous article.



That is deceivingly skanky, I’d be pretty pissed off to find my free online was merely made up of demos and videos should I not have known I had to pay to play. Cheeky buggers.
Posted by ricflair
»»Haha, talk about 360/PS3 baiting. This is a ridiculous article.



My friend's band get their music used in all sorts of places. When they get the royalty statements through, they're always being used as background music on Norwegian daytime TV and stuff like that!

They're a lot better than that sounds!
Posted by Black Mantis
Nice one guys! :)
Posted by lordirongut
Thay should have gotten Stephen Fry for the voiceover as well.
Posted by Rob S London
Yeah they've started putting FREE XBL on the boxes http://kotaku.com/5330287/xbox-360-pro-being-phased-out-pretty-soon

unlikely, but hopefully they are considering scrapping charges
Posted by CVG Mike
Go here for 100% serious news: http://www.cnn.com/.

:roll:
Posted by Black Mantis
:lol:
Posted by Mark240473
This story is nothing!

He's obviously not been on this site before. I think most of us have learnt not to take your stories seriously any more!

If he'd have seen that Edge story last week (Rage) then he probably would have internally combusted!! :lol:
Posted by Raider197
Pretty much proove that LBP is coming to 360, yet another PS3 exclusive comes to the 360! 8)
Posted by Raider197
Pretty much proove that LBP is coming to 360, yet another PS3 exclusive comes to the 360! 8)
Posted by Mark240473
Yep, just like The Legend of Zelda is coming to PS3.
Posted by bagofbones
all is fair in love and war......, and advertising. Sometimes.
Posted by xboxrulez
8) THIS IS NO TROTH! GREET AND SPECIEL XBOX DOS NOTR NEED ANYTHING TO DO DO WITH PS-CRAP! MAKE MAY ANGREY!
MAY UPGRAD "SHADES COOL" > 8)
TO "WILLLIAN FURY! > :x
Posted by DarrenR
I'm glad I own all 3 if just owning a 360 makes you loose the ability to spell and use proper English
Posted by Ayjay100
That really sucks, mostly cos i think that ignorant 360 fanboys will start referring to that song as the xbox live tune and not the LBP theme of awesomeness
Posted by Conkers
No, it doesn't, he's just a ****.
Posted by xboxrulez
8) THIS IS NO TROTH! GREET AND SPECIEL XBOX DOS NOTR NEED ANYTHING TO DO DO WITH PS-CRAP! MAKE MAY ANGREY!
MAY UPGRAD "SHADES COOL" > 8)
TO "WILLLIAN FURY! > :x

I'm glad I own all 3 if just owning a 360 makes you loose the ability to spell and use proper English

HOW DARE ONE" MAY THE HEED G UZ THE S=CHUMO CHANGE AHAHAHA POO 8)
No, it doesn't, he's just a t**t.
Posted by Soviet1918
Connect to the internet? HUH am i missing somthing or did MS add a browser to there console, Downloading demos/vids/games come from there servers is not classed as the internet, you try getting Google on your Xbox 360.
Posted by Suivatam109PS3
Or when they used a picture from Project Gotham Racing to plug Gran Turismo.
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