Tony Hawk Ride pushed back to Dec. 4 in UK, arriving on time in NA
by Ben Gilbert 
{ Oct 1st 2009 at 9:00PM } 
We may be getting the game two weeks before you folks in the UK but look at it this way: now you have two more weeks to sell off your furniture and reorganize your living room for all your new plastic peripherals. Hooray!
Gallery: Tony Hawk Ride (09/03/09)
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Dirty @ Oct 1st 2009 9:02PM
I cant wait to not buy that hunk of plastic. Suck it Kotick.
Complex @ Oct 1st 2009 9:16PM
I feel sorry for the people, who work on this they looked really exited in a video i saw form E3 but I can't see this being fun, if I wanted to hurt myself I would get a real skateboard.
Markez @ Oct 1st 2009 9:35PM
I demand that you charge into a local retailer outlet on release day and do just as much. Emphatically so.
"YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSS, CLEERK??? WELL I WOULD JUST LIKE TO SAAAAAAAAAAAAY, THAT I FOR ONE, WILL NOT BE BUYING THIS! YOU ARE THE WEAKEST LINK! GOODBYE!"
And then I suppose you could follow it up elsewhere with something like:
"YEEEEEES BARKEEP!? 2 FINGERS OF MALIBU, PLEASE!!! POST HASTE!!!"
Autobot @ Oct 1st 2009 9:42PM
Suck a big one, Nodick.
HippoHero @ Oct 1st 2009 9:49PM
I've already not pre-ordered it.
LegendaryRedass @ Oct 1st 2009 10:33PM
Godd damn it, I only like gimmicks in my games. Not to play them with. You (THR) will go the way of your forefathers, the powerglove and gameboy printer. A pox on you. A pox I say.
Tom Kalinske, CEO. @ Oct 1st 2009 9:02PM
Would Bobby care to explain this? Not that anyone cares, I just want to downvote him.
Platinum_Skeet @ Oct 2nd 2009 10:10AM
I wouldn't get this game even if it got had a perfect rating from every game site. I don't know if it's just me but I already pegged this game down that it's going to suck.
[ArchiGamer] [Soon to be a major religion] @ Oct 1st 2009 9:03PM
And in about two months, it will arrive on the bargain bin.
Solace @ Oct 1st 2009 9:14PM
Along with BandHero,Guitar Hero 5, Guitar Hero Van-Halen, and MORE peripheral related video games
WINterfang @ Oct 2nd 2009 9:42AM
Like RockBand the beatles?
Tyler @ Oct 1st 2009 9:03PM
man this looks awful.
Wayne @ Oct 1st 2009 9:07PM
What's the over/under on the number of units sold? Is it in the hundreds? Thousands?
Let's start the bidding at 750 units.
Tom Kalinske, CEO. @ Oct 1st 2009 9:28PM
The obvious answer is 42...
[Tre (TM), whom you must pay royalties to say his name] [blogs at trespeak.tumblr.com] @ Oct 1st 2009 10:00PM
Not even 42, the answer is 5 1/2.
(The half is due to the fact that Bobby Kotick will obviously try to ride one, and it will break in two.)
Alton Brown [ XBL: LordToastington, Soon-To-Be-PSN: OrIsItAltonBrown] @ Oct 1st 2009 10:24PM
358/2
Tom Kalinske, CEO. @ Oct 1st 2009 10:29PM
Nice reference.
Special Agent Steve @ Oct 1st 2009 9:07PM
GOTY.... 1961?
ChuckBartowski @ Oct 1st 2009 9:24PM
Awww, no 2010? Thats what all the cool kids are doing.
MystileArmor @ Oct 1st 2009 10:56PM
It's so they can claim the best selling peripheral game of December 2009...
Autobot @ Oct 1st 2009 9:36PM
Where's Kotick? I want to stress to him that he's over the weight limit for the board.
Autobot @ Oct 1st 2009 9:44PM
Hello Bobby Nodick, I am here today to stress to you that you are overweight for the Tony Hawk Ride official Skateboard.
Furthermore, you are a fat ass.
Tom Kalinske, CEO. @ Oct 1st 2009 10:06PM
Jeez, Bobby. Calm down. He was only stating a fact.
[Tre (TM), whom you must pay royalties to say his name] [blogs at trespeak.tumblr.com] @ Oct 1st 2009 9:57PM
It's a darn shame that Mr. "It's Your Money, But I Need It NOW!" (aka Bobby Kotick, aka No[Censored], aka Fatty McFatFat) can't even use the board.
Or maybe it might not be, because when he tries to ride one, he'll break it and it will be a loss to his company's money.
EA, please don't stoop this low. Skate is so much better than this hunk of plastic no one really needs (or necessarily wants).
Crusty Magic @ Oct 1st 2009 10:01PM
I for one can't wait for the lawsuits to start appearing on the evening news over this.
Nikonov @ Oct 1st 2009 10:09PM
Show of hands... Who cares?
bongoes the Black Lantern @ Oct 2nd 2009 3:10PM
Everyone has their hands in their pockets. That's weird.
Graeme Q @ Oct 1st 2009 10:12PM
meh, we'll still be playing Fifa no doubt.
(incidently, thread hijack - its very good).
The last thing I want is more plastic. DJ Hero decks are a must but a plastic skateboard....
[Tre (TM), whom you must pay royalties to say his name] [blogs at trespeak.tumblr.com] @ Oct 1st 2009 10:17PM
The overload of plastic is a very simple equation.
Activision
[Tre (TM), whom you must pay royalties to say his name] [blogs at trespeak.tumblr.com] @ Oct 1st 2009 10:19PM
Huh, that's strange, it cut me off.
Anyways, Activision loves money, and people will buy thing that will get them off of the couch (read: usually plastic in one form or another)
Hence, plastic = money = Bobby Kotick and his peons swimming in gold coins and laughing like hyenas.
Graeme Q @ Oct 2nd 2009 5:19AM
Yeah, I'd agree there.
I've always attempted to hide the geek in me but essentially I'm running out of places to hide all the peripherals :)
Gaming is such an eco friendly hobby as well :)
U U D D L R L R B A SELECT START @ Oct 1st 2009 10:47PM
With the number of plastic peripherals I already own, I just realized that if a fire ever breaks out in my house my living room will afterward be coated with a hard, plasticy shell.
Deedubbadoo @ Oct 1st 2009 11:15PM
Still no option to use a regular controller? Still no money from me! This thing is going to fail miserably.
JoeTheBlow @ Oct 2nd 2009 2:38PM
Have you seen how simple the gameplay is?
The board is so awkward and laggy to use that the whole game runs like Tony Hawk 1's first training level: "How to ollie (jump)"
You want controller fun, get one of the many many old Tony Hawk games, they're still pretty good if you like to feel like your playing a fighting game with the controller.
Deedubbadoo @ Oct 2nd 2009 4:45PM
I have no problem with them trying to evolve the series but to alienate that many potential consumers by forcing them to purchase the board is just down right dumb. I am no marketing genius by any means but I understand the bottom line is to make money and by not offering a controller solution, they are going to miss out on a lot of potential revenue. Just look what happened with Fight Night 4, people were irate that they took out the button mapping, but at least the game was able to be patched, I don't know if they can do that here and if they can't, someone dropped the ball.
johnnynumber5 @ Oct 1st 2009 11:32PM
I don't know what they were thinking by not allowing users to use a standard controller. They could have actually moved some game units that way. Tony Hawk deserves better but he has become such a sellout that he would probably use this thing with a huge fucking grin at a public demonstration (if it hasn't already happened at E3) ... This is one of the absolute worst ideas I've ever seen.
johnnynumber5 @ Oct 1st 2009 11:34PM
Let me also say that the board itself looks really cool. It almost looks like a real deck but the problem is how the hell is this even going to work? Players won't be able to actually do flip tricks so you end up squatting and pretending to do a flip trick? How is that going to be any fun at all or responsive in the least bit? I hate Activision so much.
Markez @ Oct 1st 2009 11:52PM
I chalk it up as a result of the TH branding falling behind Skate, and little more. I wouldn't go as deep as calling him a sell-out, as I think he does believe in the branding and enjoys the direction it is going.
I just don't know if he ever really had the insight or appreciation into the buttonheads that were pulling off the silly, huge-point combos that made people love the game in the first place. Finished off my undergrad back in '04, I specifically remember kids back in the early 2000's doing silly combos and having a game experience they'd never had before. It was new, it was fresh, but that doesn't mean that Hawk himself ever knew or cared about that angle.
I agree, in that I don't think it's a great idea. But I think it's quite a stretch to call Tony a sellout, rather than perhaps a victim of a genre that he created that he fully doesn't understand the implications of?
Markez @ Oct 1st 2009 11:53PM
The potential that I'm talking out of my ass is higher than usual, but I hope you get what I'm saying...
nickux @ Oct 1st 2009 11:48PM
this game will have much rad-itude
Kombat @ Oct 2nd 2009 2:05AM
Best comment EVAR!!!!
markhill66 @ Oct 2nd 2009 2:16AM
I'm going to go out on a limb and say that this is going to sell better than expected. Just watch...
WREturns (Looking for a graphic designer) @ Oct 2nd 2009 2:32AM
People still play Tony Hawk games? Huh.
Peter @ Oct 2nd 2009 11:48AM
Actually, I've played two Skateboard games on the ps3: Tony Hawk's Proving Grounds and Skate... Both were pretty bad but if I had to say one was better then it would probably be Proving Grounds actually. But I also know that I'm one of the few who thinks like this.
prodigy69 @ Oct 2nd 2009 3:35AM
or I could just ignore it for an extra 2 weeks
Zim @ Oct 2nd 2009 5:54AM
It looks like a Hover Board, I wonder if it works on water.
Storm Eagle [Resident Capcom Megafan] @ Oct 2nd 2009 10:25AM
Not unless you've got POWER!
WINterfang @ Oct 2nd 2009 9:44AM
The game looks like honest fun, suck it Gamers.
TheCoats @ Oct 2nd 2009 10:11AM
do not want!