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jammy2211 on 01 February 2009
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c0rd said:
jammy2211 said:
They went stale.

Then Skate put the final nail in their coffin, took the skateboarding genre to a new level, and pretty much stole the market. Hopefully EA won't let Skate go stale, too early to say with that franchise.

Anywho, Activision will be bringing Tony Hawk's back with a focus on realism and whatnot, trying to take back the market Skate stole. It can only be a good thing this genre has two competitors locked horn to horn now, should prevent it from going stale like Tony Hawks.

Not a clue if Tony Hawks is coming back this year mind, I've got a list of 4 Activision projects yet to be officially announced due for a 2009 release...

Stole the market?

Maybe it did, but that isn't saying much. I guess it stole what little was left of the skateboard game market.

Really, though. Skate can't even break a million (actually might be wrong here). Compare this to Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2, which sold 5.4 million(!!!) copies in the US alone, according to NPD. It's really sad to say after a game that good, but I think the genre is dead, and has little chance of coming back.

The only figure we have for Skate is 640k, and that is for just the 360 in just America, so the market is still undenyably sizeable. Skate 2 opened with a slightly lower week 1 number on the 360, but overall is larger with PS3 sales and will have stronger legs as it's lowish week 1 is due to a January release.

 There has been a drop in popularity of skating games but it's still a huge sub-section of gaming and I can easily see Skate 2 going past 3.5 million+ come the launch of Skate 3.

 It didn't 'steal' as such maybe the market as Tony Hawk's seemed to have got rid of the market it once had itself, but whoever did buy lots of Tony Hawk's when it was popular and gave up on the series were all quick to pick up Skate it would seem.