No console Tony Hawk in '08. Alas, poor Tony!

by Terrence Stasse { May 9th 2008 at 6:15AM }

Oh Acti-Blizi-Viveni-vision, oh how you have changed. In your lean years you proudly rode your Tony Hawk cash cow. Then came franchise fatigue, skate, and your dark times. Abandoned you have, the money-maker of yesteryear. You have cast him now into the pit of portable gaming, possibly never to return. Cursed he now is, with a two year dev cycle and raised money-making expectations. Upon his return from exile in fiscal year 2010, how will his rivals have taken advantage of his absence? Will the evil kingdom of EA own the extreme sports mindshare by that time? The rest readers, is silence.

Tags: activision, portable-gaming-hell, tony-hawk

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

muffin.lad @ May 9th 2008 7:07AM

no loss IMO

Gary Harwell @ May 9th 2008 8:05AM

I''m pretty sure the reason is that Neversoft is really only capable of pumping out one mediocre game at a time. They currently have their hands full with Guitar Hero IV: Rock Band. Maybe you'll get your fix of "grinding" an entire roller coaster with that game. It's easier for them to include something like that than it is for them to come up with their own characters. In fact, I'm going to go all in and tell everyone to expect Guitar Hero: Legends of Skateboarding next Spring. It will cost $79.99 because it will be packaged with crappy skateboarding stickers for your Les Paul. Preorder the $99.00 "Special" Edition to get a collector's photo book of a bunch of skaters wearing mo-cap clothing pretending to play guitar.

...maybe I went a little too far.

Terrence Stasse @ May 9th 2008 8:14AM

What, may I ask, in my silly, silly, post, made you think that I LIKE Tony Hawk?

The whole thing was parody.

Gary Harwell @ May 9th 2008 8:19AM

Haha, nothing in your post made me think that. I thought your post was quite humorous and I had to follow it up with my own peace of mind. Perhaps when I said "Maybe you'll get your fix of "grinding" an entire roller coaster with that game" I should have said "Maybe everyone can get their fix."

Gary Harwell @ May 9th 2008 8:10AM

Actually, why doesn't Activision just buy a Music-based game developer and contract the Tony Hawk series to them. It's GOT to work both ways!

Boff @ May 9th 2008 9:11AM

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