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Tony Hawk Ride board will actually be white

by Justin McElroy on Jul 16th 2009 1:30PM

You can only imagine how exciting this is for me personally. Now that Activision has revealed that the Tony Hawk Ride board peripheral will be white when it finally releases, I'm among the elite few who used it when it was black. I'm at the epicenter of the maelstrom, like a guy who saw the Kennedy assassination from a different angle, or Michael Jackson's personal sandwich crust trimmer who "had noticed that he'd been acting sadder than usual, now that you mention it!"

RoboModo co-founder Josh Tsui also told GI.biz, "[the board] is the most advanced peripheral on the market. It really is going to usher a next generation of controllers for games." That's great Josh, but let's try to stay focused on this color change ushering in the next generation of my personal fame. Leave all interview requests, book offers, etc. in the comments below.

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Tags: activision, Microsoft, Nintendo, robomodo, tony-hawk-ride, Wii, Xbox-360

Reader Comments (59)

oh right, so its more like skateboarding?

all im thinking is that thing is gonna get dirty

same thing I was thinking, my white 360 gets dirty by just sitting there, think of whats going to happen with people's feet on them...

I don't really care what color the plastic is, I'm not buying without proof the money I pay is worth the satisfaction.

I don't really care what color the plastic is, I just want Justin McElroy to hang out with me sometime and tell me what it was like to use a black Ride board.

I wonder why they did that. I'm sure it has NOTHING to do with the fact that it now looks like a Wii peripheral!

Your mom looks like a Wii peripheral!

Burn!

Nah but really, this is stupid. You're exactly right Spam; and I have no idea why that is. The wii sucks. I wouldn't buy one for my family, it isn't worth it.

For the record, I have a wii

That was totally uncalled for, WREturns.

And I totally agree with Spam. Perhaps they think that white=casual?

I'm not sure I understand the colour change either, except to reflect more of a casual market. Black made it look more like a skateboard..

inb4 "Thats racist"

It actually looks like a snowboard now........

It was black before?

Read the article? And follow the links it provides?

Sense FAIL?

White!!
Defiantly buying this overpriced game now!

heck yeah! stick it to the man!

lol.. you guys take yourselves way too seriously

I concur. Too many troll's on joystiq.

Yea I agree aswell, people just don't seem to get sarcasm in here anymore :P
Almost every single post I made got downvoted, just because I was sarcastic hahaha

Nah, you just suck at the news.

oh wait till I get my cheque book..

This peripheral is Stupid,
It Don't Matter If It's
Black or White

+ 1

now if only the whole world had your attitude race relations would be much better

...and so would skateboard relations.

Now with more ugly.

For some reason, I really want this to fail misreably. Perhaps because they're arrogant enough to already be making a sequel for it.

strange. me too!

RACIST! What they trying to say?

j/k

I'm guessing at some point they will have a variety of colours if the whole things takes off, probably adding vinyls and other patterns, or will that be possible to dow without paying for it.

*Goes to get his stickers and paint*

No, no. We're talking Activision here. There will be other boards released with different designs on the board to "reflect your inner skateboarder" or some other weird tagline to try to appeal to the masses.

Rubbish, I'm not paying for different colours, lol, thats what stickers and paint are for :D

Don't worry...

Activision will try to sell you officially licensed Tony Hawk Ride stickers and paint to go along with the white board.

I wouldn't be the least bit suprised, lol

it'll be brown by the time i'm done with it....dirt on my shoes and such.

...and from poop.

that's what she said.

The only thing I can think of is that they want to allow users to customize their boards with sharpies or stickers.

Personally, I thought the black version looked MUCH better.

great, now you will see all of the nasty foot prints on it.

O good. I was worried it was going to be a shitty peripheral that was black......

Tony Hawk's WiiFit

So I'm going to have to play this like some swollen Appalachian breeder (barefoot) just to keep it from getting dirty? Hehe, who am I kidding; I'm not buying this shit.

They could put this thing in a suit and tie and I still wouldn't buy it

So much for having any remote sense of realism... Hope there's a third party version, cause I'm not buying anything WHITE. Yeah, I said it.

They prefer to be called Caucasians.

So they made the controller smaller?

they will prolly try to milk it even more by selling skins for it.

So, now it's not just expensive, but expensive and ugly?

Let's put this into a hooker economic setting: those who frequent prostitutes aren't going to pay extra money for an ugly one that promises new tricks. Now, get an attractive hooker who promises new things and bam! - you're in the money.

So Justin, you will stand behind the statement that once you go black, you don't go back?

lol

I was just thinking about that statment

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