Tony Hawk: Ride Board Peripheral Is "Its Own Platform"
See Full ImageBy now, most of you should know about that innovative skateboard controller that will debut with Tony Hawk: Ride later this year. But were you aware that it will be usable with other titles...?
In speaking to VideoGamer.com at E3, Robomodo president Joshua Tsui revealed that the accessory is viewed as "its own platform," and many future games will take advantage of this unique peripheral. We recently saw the retail price for the full Tony Hawk: Ride package; Amazon lists it at $119.99, which is a little steep...but not if you can use that board again! It reminds us of all the music-based games when owners can play their instruments on new iterations in a particular franchise. Said Tsui:
"It's really important to us that when people buy this package that they understand that, right now we're concentrating on Tony Hawk Ride, but we want to make sure that people have a good return on their investment so there are many games that are planned for this peripheral. We look at it less as a peripheral, as more of a platform. The obvious ones are snowboarding and surfing and such, but there are a lot of games that can be used with this board, and we're really excited to start working on those."
So essentially, it's almost as if the team conceived of the accessory first, then built their first game around it with the intention of making more. This is just fine by us, and hey, we kinda need a new surfing game. They tried a couple back in the early days of the Xbox but they weren't exactly fantastic; can you imagine trying to virtually carve a wave with that board?
Related Game(s): Tony Hawk: Ride
6/22/2009 Ben Dutka
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IronFace2
Monday, June 22, 2009 @ 10:57:22 AM
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Imagine playing Resident evil and beating up zombies with a skatboard lol XD
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Qubex
Monday, June 22, 2009 @ 11:01:53 AM
Q!
"i am home"
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Gregory Freeman
Monday, June 22, 2009 @ 1:39:31 PM
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Scarecrow
Monday, June 22, 2009 @ 11:04:54 AM
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Some companies crack me up
They think we're all 10 years old
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IronFace2
Monday, June 22, 2009 @ 11:20:31 AM
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I really can't imagine myself using that board.
I could wake up my neighbours trying to do a kickflip XD
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mexgeo86
Monday, June 22, 2009 @ 11:22:30 AM
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www
Monday, June 22, 2009 @ 11:25:37 AM
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End of line
Monday, June 22, 2009 @ 11:28:48 AM
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Does anyone else think Wii Fit???
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TheHighlander
Monday, June 22, 2009 @ 4:28:01 PM
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BeezleDrop
Monday, June 22, 2009 @ 11:42:42 AM
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Corak
Monday, June 22, 2009 @ 1:52:27 PM
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There will be no big titels for this excepte maybe Ride2.
And I dont think you can simulate surfing with this nearly as good as skating (if that works that is). I think this thing would need force feedback or something like that^^ And it would still looks like a skate board!
It is silly of them to say it is more. Just go with "It will be the most real skate exp. but it will be a bit expensiv"!
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Kangasfwa
Monday, June 22, 2009 @ 1:53:39 PM
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I can't wait for the reports of wii-mote like destruction as people fling this thing into their TV.
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WorldEndsWithMe
Monday, June 22, 2009 @ 2:07:55 PM
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Monday, June 22, 2009 @ 3:44:38 PM
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Zemus101
Monday, June 22, 2009 @ 3:48:08 PM
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tlpn99
Monday, June 22, 2009 @ 3:53:05 PM
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TheHighlander
Monday, June 22, 2009 @ 4:26:58 PM
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BTW, anyone seen how the 'regular' media is loving the suggestion that Activision would stop developing for PS3/PSP. It's good to see how much analysis and thought goes into articles these days. </sarcasm>
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JoshBall
Monday, June 22, 2009 @ 4:34:25 PM
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hmmm thing with this is, if natal for xbox will work, then why would anyone buy an expensive board like this when they could skate without the board? (As shown in the video of natal). And if natal could do it, then the playstation eye should be able to do something similar (we hope) so i can't see this selling all that well.. =/
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BikerSaint
Monday, June 22, 2009 @ 6:27:14 PM
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jmo_INDY_Repub
Monday, June 22, 2009 @ 8:14:16 PM
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TheHighlander
Monday, June 22, 2009 @ 10:01:54 PM
<innocent smile>
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Skatejimmy5
Tuesday, June 23, 2009 @ 6:59:35 AM
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:D
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Qubex
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Monday, June 22, 2009 @ 10:56:26 AM
There will be many a fallen, many a sprain, and many that will look wrong standing on that piece of plastic!
Q!
"i am home"
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