Tony Hawk RIDE Set For Wii In November

Dang, that's a high price tag! I think they are the first ones to charge that much for a third-party acessory.

Too expensive, if it was an SSX game then maybe I would buy it...

Wow that's a lot of money. Yeah its a good job we have awesome reporters like you keeping us up to date

I've never been too excited about Tony Hawk games. Definitely not picking this one up now.

Not for me.

I don't know about that price tag

For £100 you could buy a decent setup & learn to skate for real!

I saw a video on the development of this board.... the earliest R&D prototype was quite literally a Wii remote taped to the bottom of a skateboard.

I liked Dwnhill Jam but never liked any of the other TH's games. I doubt this will sell for that price tbh.

Why not just let Wii owners use the balance board? Would that make too much sense for Activision?

That much for a peripheral! I'll be skipping it.

i'll have to wait and hear if it's good before i buy it

I'll reserve judgment til the peripheral drops. Again, I paid 90 for a Wii Fit that I've gotten little/no use out of...paying 100 for a board that's implemented in a fun way on a game could be great, especially if the game has replay value. I look at all games as a dollar per hour system--if I pay 100 bucks, I'd like to get 100 hours of play out of it. If it's a fantastic skateboarding game that keeps me coming back for months, I could see myself paying double. After all, it's better than spending 50 bucks apiece on 2 peripheral-free games, both of which end up uninteresting in a few hours.

I thought this was for 360 and ps3 only? Oh well, i'm glad we get to have it.Unfortunately I'd rather buy Skate 2 than this...

That's way too much for an third-party peripheral. Not going to revive the series.

WTF? Why don't they just use the Balance Board? At least some people have it and some more games using it can't hurt... And seriously, instead of spending 99$ on that thing, I could just go out and skateboard myself. xD

Good thing, I'm not interested in any Tony Hawk game anyway... or skateboarding in general.

I think I'll just stick with the balance board

I don't even have a balance board and that's still a little pricey for me

@SuperSonic1990: You and your super sonic firstie...

Why not just let Wii owners use the balance board? Would that make too much sense for Activision?
In a nutshell, Activision can't make money off balance boards.

Personally, its things like this (plus thier run Guitar Hero into the ground after it jumped the shark, release even more peripheral games, chargeing £55 for the new call of duty then say we would do it to everything if we could) which makes me want to see Activision suffer huge financial losses (and I don't care if they take Blizard with them, maybe then we'll see them release something that isn't a WoW expansion).

I usually don't want to see casulties in the industry (I even pity Sony right now) but I feel Activision deserves it for their complete disregard to the customer (in their words they exploit the customer) and failiure to notice basic things like peripheral games slumped last year so you don't release six times as many of them for the current year.

@Starwolf_UK: I agree, I'm worried that Activision could pull off another unacceptably gimped-up port for Modern Warfare. I don't say "Kill Activision", but they are not treating there fans properly, especially on the Wii.

I'd rather have the original Tony Hawk's Pro Skater available for download on VC.

This is obviously talking about all plarforms in very broad terms as I'm highly skeptical the Wii version will include online. Likely just hotseat. Someone please prove me wrong.

That's way to much for yet another peripheral for the Wii.
Why not support the existing tech with the Balance Board instead?
I'd much rather see DVD playback on the Wii, a music/mp3 channel, a fully updated real Internet channel complete with email client, and more support for the virtual console then this mess.

I think companies are just getting really greedy here. First it was:
(All prices below on Us Dollar from Gamestop.com)
Wii Mote ($34.99)
Wii Zapper ($24.99)
Wii Balance Board ($89.00)
Wii Speak ($29.99)
Wii Motion Plus ($24.99)
Wii Skateboard ($166.65) as per currency converter from Pound to Dollar.

That's a whopping $221.63 in total if you get all those accessories. Not to mention a battery charge station ($30.00) as well as whatever price tag the vitality sensor is going to be.

I'm not to thrilled with Nintendo cramming so many bloody accessories down our throats, when the current ones that are out are not even being used by a handful, let alone multiple titles.

Hey Nintendo how about actually (GASP!) requiring gaming companies (yourselves included) to support the existing accessories we have right now, instead of trying to cash in on even more accessories.

Regards

Karch

O.o Wow, 100 pounds/euros? That's like GH/Rock Band priced, right? Better be the greatest skating game ever.

So when I wanna do a backflip on my board how is that gonna work?

I don't like the price tag, but to all the people that say they could just go ride a skateboard please look up Guitar Hero on google.

Karch, you forgot the Nunchucks.

Yeah not happening Activision.
Seriously....thats not happening.
Im not paying that much money for a skateboard with no wheels.
jeez....grabs a skateboard.....YEAH DUDE!!!

It looks like an interesting concept but I just don't have a hundred quid lying about to spend on a game.

I really feel that gaming has become a bit of a piss take this generation and it just costs way too much if people really want to experience all the different games out there.

What with all the Guitar Hero/Rock Band peripherals, the Wiimote + Nunchuck + Motion Plus, the Balance Board, Vitality Sensors, then Magic Wands and Natal coming soon to, and whatever else, not to mention the 3 home consoles and 2 handhelds, it's just really expensive if people actually want to play all the different kinds of games out there.

I think I just liked it better when I got two controllers in the box and they played pretty much every single game on the system perfectly.

Way too much money is being asked of gamers like me for our gaming fix imo

i agree with you kirk.

So will RIDE support the balance board on Wii a la Skate It? If they ignore balance board support in favour of a new expensive peripheral, I will go no where near it.

Doesn't that thing just make the game harder? I thought the premise of Tony Hawk games were you could skate like a pro by just learning a few buttons.
Why not just buy a skateboard for a lot less and you'll have a lot more fun.

...dunno, maybe it is good. £100 though... and it's not like you're selling it with a fresh franchise. They could have used the balance board and sold a lot more copies with a £29.99 price tag instead. Or support both and sell their board seperate, but I have a feeling we'll be seeing a LOT more TH games soon, ala: Guitar Hero.

IT'S A very NICE object, i think who loves skateboarding could buy it, i'm not, i won't

does it fly like the movie Back to Future and M.J Fox ?

wow thats...hmm... i think i'll buy a REAL skateboard instead

wow thats...hmm... i think i'll buy a REAL skateboard instead

@Kirk- You raise good points but systems and games are technically cheaper nowadays (as $300 2009 is less than $300 1989 for instance.) Technology has made some things cheaper and companies have made others more expensive.

WHAT?!?! Wii Fit was only $90 and they think people are going to buy this for 100 dollars, they have lost there minds.

Ha, I just realised. Natal was announced say half way through this project of Activision's. Bet they fell off there chairs when they saw that kid in the demo, playing a skateboard game, without, ergh... anything. Beautiful! Hahahahahahahahahahahaha! Fail!

Why can't you just use the balance board?

http://www.adgirlandtechnerd.com

Announce more games (Surfing, snowboarding etc. Not just Hawk) and its a maybe...

@41: £99.99 is more than 100 US dollars, quite a bit more I believe

I play my video games sitting on my A$$ so thank you very much Activision, You can keep your $166 dollars Ill still be sitting there playing Skate 2 without your little wanabe skateboard that won't work near as well as anyone really wants it too.

I too realized this conversion recently (after making a post that 100 bucks didn't seem too, too bad...) and realized how much more absurd this price actually is. People just don't pay 160 dollars for a game--period.

why can't it just be an add-on for the balence bored?

That's why they have us!? Giggsy! Don't make me pay money to review this! . lol

thats to expencive.
and how does it know when u do a kickfilp?
do u actualy have to do 1 because i can see alot of broken bords

they could have dropped the damn board and it would be fine. i just hope the other TH game coming out doesn't force the board use.