Tony Hawk Pro Skater 5 First Screens and details (Crossgen)

[Mr Puggsly]

the_dengle said:

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.

Well Tony Hawk basically became Jackass and the music was aimed at a more mature audience. Tony Hawk did better on core platforms and its not a coincidence.

Activision is silent about all BO3 ports outside of X1, PS4, and PC. Ultimately, it doesn't matter. The Wii U version will/would be the least popular port and Wii U fans will/would complain about the quality of the port.

Activision still cares about reaching wider audiences. They dropped mobile consoles and now focus on phones/tablets. Putting games on Wii U primarily reaches a small audience of Nintendo fans and casuals, that's why 3rd party support on Wii U is mostly dead.

No mistakes made, I didn't say it was impossible to port 7th gen games to Wii. I'm pointing out it wasn't a simple process. Neither is bringing PS3 games to Vita. When Capcom brought Dead Rising to Wii it was basically a remake using the RE4 engine. Likely because that was easier than porting the actual game.

Call of Duty sold well on Vita because it launched as a bundle game. You spew a lot of crap and clearly lack knowledge about what you speak about. If a CoD was bundled with Wii U it could have been a million seller there as well. Although, CoD on Vita was a fun multiplayer game.