Tony Hawk: Ride sequel likely

By Tom Bramwell Published 15 July, 2009

Developer already contemplating it.

Tony Hawk: Ride developer Robomondo is already thinking about a sequel, according to studio boss Josh Tsui.

Ride, which makes use of the new wireless skateboard peripheral, is due out later this year, and doesn't even have a fixed date yet, but that's no barrier, apparently.

"Obviously, we're very focused on getting this done, but being the creative types that we are, we're always writing up new game proposals and things we want to do," Tsui told Industry Gamers.

"It's just a matter of timing. With Tony Hawk: Ride finishing up [we have to think about] the sequel to the game and where that fits into our schedules. It's a lot of juggling at this point."

Not unlike playing the game, which involves standing on a skateboard peripheral and wobbling about to manipulate your on-screen character.

You can read about how it works in our Tony Hawk: Ride preview and contemplate how badly you're going to smash up your flat and which bones you'll break while admiring the accompanying trailer.

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  • CARL05 #1 3 years ago

    Sounds confident considering how the recent Tony Hawk games have sucked.
    They should really wait until this game is released before they talk about the future, although their plan is to make people confident about the price tag which will be attached to the skateboard peripheral.

  • Monkey_Puncher #2 3 years ago

    If this thing doesn't flop, I'll be shocked. Who in their right mind is going to stump up the cash for more plastic peripheral crap?

  • Zomoniac #3 3 years ago

    I really cannot begin to see how this will sell. The brand is now worthless, the game will almost certainly be shit and it's £100 for a single-player game. Proving Ground was outsold 2:1 by Skate, so clearly people aren't buying into the name anymore, and it's £100 for a game with no local multiplayer without (presumably) buying a second board, probably £70 or so. I am 99% confident this will be a complete disaster.

  • skillian #4 3 years ago

    Hmm, I'm not so sure. It will be interesting to see what happens, but expensive peripherals don't exactly seem to be putting people off right now, and if you'll excuse the elitism, the people who are pulled in by plastic peripherals seem to be the people for whom a game's quality is less important.

    I think this might be a big hit (although I hope it is an utter failure).
    Edited by 1 at 15/07/09 @ 12:47

  • Zomoniac #5 3 years ago

    But it doesn't have the cute, family-orientated mass appeal of Wii Fit, or the incredible mass-appeal and multiplayer party fun of GH and RB. The mums and non-gamers who were all so sure Wii Fit would make them thin and so bought 20 million+ copies aren't going to pay £100 for a skateboarding game, the families who bought a Wii for Wii Sports and GH at parties aren't going to spend £100 on a single-player game, and the hardcore lot who bought RB because it's good, not because they saw it on telly, aren't going to buy it because they know it will be shit. With the genre and pricetag it seems to be going after a niche, hardcore market, and nobody in that niche, hardcore market that I know of has any interest in buying it whatsoever.

  • Toothball #6 3 years ago

    A sequel is likely? Isn't this an Activision job? Sequels are guaranteed with those. I doubt this would be getting released at all if it weren't already a sequel itself.

    I have no objection to extra peripherals though.

  • andromeda #7 3 years ago

    stupid thing to say.
    Only sends out the message that theres something wrong with the first one