If you didn't notice, Tony Hawk Shred launched this week. but dont bother looking at next weeks charts as the game is rumoured to only pull sales of 9,000 upon launch. Now when an once huge franchise as Tony Hawk rolls under the radar and bombs can officially confirm that the series is over. 

There wont be another Tony Hawk game ever. Because Activison has already dumped the associated studio's and Shred got no publicity at all and will fly under radar for even the fans of skating. While the genre is closing as the sport its self has lost the luster it once had years back.

But whats funny is that Koctic the Ceo of Activison/Blizzard (now not an quote) said that They made an few mistakes with the first games (which funny were the highest rated and biggest sellers) but we have nailed it with Shred (it would be the lowest rated and most likely the worst selling tony hawk game). 

well if you want collect last edition to the series blow an few hundred on another Activison plastic toy. 

Now you could reply that the series may not be dead officially, well since Tony hawk is getting old the name would soon die over the years to come and they would have to replace the name. But the sport is dying and when that happens games vanish even big titles like Tony Hawk. 

So we can now throw Tony Hawk, Blur, DJ Hero and Guitar hero into the failure bin with activison written across the barrel. 

It's strangely gratifying to see all these peripheral based games going down the tubes. I guess people finally figured out that they make real guitars and skateboards.

i know right. If you spent the 100s of hours grinning into guitar hero and instead practice an real guitar you would be pretty decent at the moment 

The last Tony Hawk game I played was on the N64. It's been dead to me for awhile. However, the Tony Hawk games were really well made and a whole lotta* fun. But this is Activision we are talking about and it's sad  to see these games not being up to the standard they once were.

* Led Zeppelin reference

Except, the people playing Guitar Hero are doing so to enjoy themselves, not to learn the instrument. Learning how to play, practicing and such is far from fun (for most people, anyway)

OT: Kinda sad to see what's become of Tony Hawk games, the early games (1, 2, maybe 3) were amazing. Wish this damn company knew when to quit...

Btw, did you say the sport was dying?

Except that no one played a skating game or guitar game and thought "wow, I wish these things existed in real life."  And on top of that, I doubt either series prompted a significant numebr of people to learn either skill at all.  The appeal for most people was that these games were much more simple and gratifying then their real life counter-parts and that has slowly been choked away. 

By adding an actual board you have to use, instead of just a controller, it's not much more simple to skateboard than the real thing.  By continuously making the game more complex to apease the select few it's not much more simple to learn to play the plastic guitar than the real one. 

What has happened is that these people have either been faced with too high of a skill curve (which had already kept them from the real thing) or they have been saturated with the experience and want to do something else.  If you could suddenly create a special peripheral that let people do video gamey things they could never do before (and wanted to do) you could sell milions with the right marketing.  If knitting were the cool thing to do, you could sell millions of copies of a knitting game right now because none exist and you could certainly make it into an experience that would accomodate people who don't want actually knit at all because it's more difficult.

oh what a surprise. Shred will do worse than Ride.

Should have stayed peripheral-less and simply made a proper TH game after Proving Ground. Tony Hawk's Project 8 Part 2 could have been so awesome.

Well the first tony Hawks on Ps1 were AWESOME. 

they should of at least rebooted the old games. Tho Underground was good as well.After that it was an downhill slide. 

They made a Tony Hawk game after Underground 2?

Hmm, didn't notice.

American Wasteland was somewhat decent. Then the series just went into freefall.