| Mr Puggsly said: Again, Tony Hawk games have had a core appeal much like CoD. While very different games it seems they appeal to a similar audience and will sell best on platforms with a large core audience. Skylanders and Guitar Hero are differnt genres but have done well amongst casuals. And thats why Ninendo has continued to get that support. Id be surprised if BO3 comes to Wii U given the shit sales of the last few and no AW port. GBA didnt really get PS2 ports. GBA games with the same name as PS2 games exist, but they arent ports. Vita ports of visually demanding PS3 games look kinda like 6th gen graphics. Vita's best looking games are at par with OG Xbox. I get the impression porting 7th gen titles is difficult as was porting 7th gen games to Wii. Sometimes PS2 ports fail to achieve a stable frame rate on Vita. |
Can you give me any reason at all to believe this or am I just supposed to take you at your word? Mr Puggsly says COD and Tony Hawk have the same audience, so it must be true?
There is enough weirdness surrounding the rumored Wii U version of BO3 to see suspect that it might happen. Activision's silence regarding it is as baffling as it was for BO2 and Ghosts. I'm aware of the relationship between the PS2 and GBA versions of Tony Hawk games, my point was that Activision went to great lengths to make that game a strong IP on every possible platform 15 years ago, and now they seem content to settle for just a few platforms when they could be reaching a wider audience with far less effort than it took to make an entire game from the ground up.
I'd blame the developers if they can't get PS2 games to manage a stable framerate on the Vita. If Nintendo can get Wii games running on 3DS (or New 3DS), a competent studio should certainly be able to get a PS2 game to work on Vita. Anyway, comparing PS3 -> Vita ports to PS3/360 -> Wii was a mistake, because Activision did exactly that for Call of Duty and you just asserted that COD and Tony Hawk have the same fanbase. The Vita must be pretty much the definition of a core platform because the only Call of Duty game released for it is one of the best-selling games on the system despite being unanimously panned. That should indicate pretty well that Vita owners would buy THPS5 in droves even if it was an absolutely horrible port.
