It feels like Sackboy – the once-beloved mascot from the LittleBigPlanet games – is slowly getting sidelined by the PlayStation brand.
Last week following a screening of the Until Dawn film adaptation, social media user realradec revealed Sackboy was no longer a part of PlayStation Productions’ intro video.
While familiar faces such as Uncharted’s Nathan Drake, Ratchet and Clank’s Ratchet and Clank and Astro Bot could all still be seen in the video, which plays ahead of a PlayStation Productions project, Sackboy was now absent from the line up (thanks, PlayStationLifestyle).
Sharing an image of both the updated opening on X along with an accompanying image from the same moment before a screening of Gran Turismo in 2023, realradec wrote: “I don’t like this era of Sackboy erasure.”
This sentiment has been echoed in many of the replies, with comments such as “they can’t just put him out on the street like that” and “it’s like seeing a family member getting cut out of the picture” beneath the images.
Eurogamer has reached out to Sony to ask why Sackboy has been removed from the PlayStation Productions video.
This removal from the PlayStation Productions video follows last year’s announcement from Sony that it was pulling LittleBigPlanet 3 and all LittleBigPlanet DLC from sale via the PS Store.
Sackboy: A Big Adventure remains available on the PlayStation Store, though. “Don’t overlook this joyous explosion of colour and charm – I very nearly did, and I’m kicking myself for it,” Vikki Blake wrote in Eurogamer’s Sackboy: A Big Adventure review from 2020.
