EA's Skate demo delayed "a few days"

by Jared Rea { Aug 13th 2007 at 10:55PM }

Originally due out on August 15th, EA's Scott Blackwood has announced that the Xbox 360 demo for Skate has been hit with a short delay. How short? In an official forum post, Blackwood says, "We're not quite sure yet ... hopefully not more than a week."

We spoke with EA about the cause for this delay and their spokesperson told us, "We are trying something completely new for an Xbox Marketplace demo in allowing people to play the game and upload footage they take in-game to our Skate website. The skate.reel video upload functionality is much more technically complex than a standard offline demo, and the number of moving parts have resulted in undue & hard-to-predict delays." Having recently played the demo area (and well beyond) and scoped out the included features, we assure you that it'll be worth the wait.

The good news is that this delay has no bearing whatsoever on the final game, which will still be shipping out on September 12th for the Xbox 360 and September 24th for the PlayStation 3.

Tags: skate, xboxlive

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Patrick @ Aug 13th 2007 11:00PM

Shit, PS3 gamers really get stiffed when it comes to demos.

Matt B @ Aug 13th 2007 11:15PM

SO true.

I think it is written in the 360 contract to have a demo . Sony really needs to start looking at this and aggressively getting demos. Demos can make or break a game. But I've played demos that I thought were bad(Motorstorm) but the final product of that demo was amazing.

Patrick @ Aug 13th 2007 11:38PM

It must be something cause apart from the very few exceptions the only demos on PSN seems to 1st party titles, but even then there few and far between. 360 owners get demos it looks like every week, sux to be a PS3 gamer atm imo... no love from Sony/devs.. :(