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Plus, a new game – Session – is set to be released later this year on Xbox and PC. Any developer wants to make money and what better way than to cash in on a latest trend. And if there is a resurgence, you’d think that the likelihood of a new skateboarding game would only increase. A global showcase could be just what the sport needs to kick-start a revival in popularity. Skateboarding is going to be at the Olympics for the first time next year in Tokyo. The future for skateboarding video games is not necessarily so bleak however. And in an age where gaming companies are looking to make the most money possible from their IP’s, it doesn’t make financial sense to develop a new skateboarding game when this is the case. For various reasons, skateboarding is simply no longer as popular as it used to be. Popular culture, for the most part, has moved on. Tony Hawk became a household name and still remains the only skateboarder anyone can name if you ask them.īut in the past decade, the sport itself has fallen out of the public eye.
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Meanwhile, the Pro Skater franchise brought the sport into the homes of millions, even those who had never touched a skateboard in their life.
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Jackass, the TV sensation that spawned three movies, counted many skaters amongst its cast, most notably Bam Margera. A subgenre of music, ‘skate punk’, sprouted up. Distinct clothing styles and the skate shoe evolved and can still be seen today. It went mainstream for the first time, leaving a lasting mark on popular culture in the process. In the 1990s and 2000s, skateboarding was massive. Surely now seems like the perfect time for someone to take over the market and bring skateboarding onto the current generation. Go and play them today, and you’ll find they still hold up remarkably well, despite releasing over ten years ago.īoth dominant franchises are gone by this point, and yet no-one has dared swoop in and replace them. Their games really were the whole package: beautifully designed levels, addictive arcade-style gameplay and legendary soundtracks. Before that, Neversoft enjoyed monumental success with the series, releasing a slew of classics on a yearly basis.
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It was only after Activision transferred the series to Robomodo in 2008 that the downhill slide began. And as a great lover of the series growing up, it feels like a kick in the teeth. So Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater seems to have been killed off, the result of rushed development and mismanagement. Shortly after its release, Activision chose not to renew the licensing deal with Tony Hawk and shut down developers Robomodo. Pro Skater 5 felt more like the dying breath of a once great franchise rather than a triumphant resurgence.
The gameplay was buggy, and it was condemned as one of the worst games of the current generation by critics. To date, this is the only skateboarding game we have on the Xbox One. So Skate lies dormant, but what of the other king? Where is Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater? Well the last time we saw the Birdman was much more recently, with the release of Pro Skater 5 in 2015. It seems like any hope of Skate 4 died with them. But perhaps most damningly, Skate developers Blackbox were shut down in 2013. ” And following Lingen’s tweet, CEO Andrew Wilson announced that the company “is not presently making Skate 4”, suggesting that the attitude of the publisher had not changed. CEO at the time John Ritticello gave an interview to Kotaku in 2010, where he said that “skateboarding seems to have run its course as the representative example in that broader genre. Just five months after the release of Skate 3, EA had already lost faith in skateboarding as a viable genre of video game. EA has seemingly tried to dispel any rumours. But we are entering our ninth year of waiting and by this point I’m starting to think that it’s just a (half)pipe dream.
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