Tony Hawk: Shread sells 3000 units in first week, franchise continues to rot and fester - Games

[quote]Perhaps you've seen the stack of Tony Hawk: Shred skateboard bundles sitting at your local video game store. You might want to get used to them, because the game's first week sales number are very, very low. A word to publishers: Taking your franchise away from a developer two week's before the release of the next game in the series doesn't make for strong first week sales. According to Cowen & Company analyst Doug Creutz, the second plastic skateboard installment of the Tony Hawk franchise only managed to move 3,000 copies during its first week of release. That's pretty abysmal, but it really isn't much of a surprise. Considering the poor critical and retail reception Tony Hawk: Ride received, I'm surprised the Tony Hawk: Shred even exists. Giving the sequel a green light was a real gamble for publisher Activision, and it did not pay off. The end result is a game that's not selling and development studio Robomodo having to lay off a large portion of its staff. At least we now know that a lack of snowboarding wasn't the reason the first game failed, right? New Tony Hawk flops at retail [CVG] Send an email to Michael Fahey, the author of this post, at [email]fahey@kotaku.com[/email]. [/quote] [url]http://kotaku.com/5692254/tony-hawk-shred-sells-like-rancid-hotcakes[/url] It's really a surprise to no one, but it's still sad how incredibly far this series has fallen. It really needs to be ended because there's just no place for it in gaming anymore. Even with a massive revamp, I can't see it being successful. Also, rate tool if you didn't even know it existed, much less came out.

Never heard about Tony hawk shred. Edit: Wow shit this game is so unpopulair that it's hard to find any videos of in on youtube.

All they have to do is stop releasing it with that skateboard add on. I used to love Tony Hawk games but I don't want to spend more because of some stupid add on :P

this is both hilarious and sad :frown:

Tony hawk shread? No adverts or anything? How the hell do you sell then? Stupid Activision

God I missed good old Pro Skater 3. Playing horse with one controller with mates always brings back memories. The soundtracks were always awesome as well.

Good god, the graphics in this are hideous. It's like they tried to cover up all the half-assed models and blurry textures with the use of cel-shading. Also, what the fuck is up with that controller [img]http://c2.adoctane.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/tony-hawk-ride-board-580x269.jpg[/img] the Tony Hawk games are MEANT to be played with a pad. As if anybody would really wanna twitch and spin around the room standing on that... thing.

Take THPS 1 through 4. Port to Xbox Live, PSN and computer. Release. Make money. The Pro Skater series was the best, I played Pro Skater 4 so much on PSN with the PS2. Or, well, technically it was Gamespy's network, not PSN.

Last Tony Hawk game I played was on a PS1.

This is the future of Call of Duty.

Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 was one of the top rated games of [b]ALL TIME[/b] It had no shitty board Tony Hawk: Shred sells horribly and gets awful reviews It has a shitty board Take a note Activision

[QUOTE=OutOfExile2;26124476]Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 was one of the top rated games of [b]ALL TIME[/b] It had no shitty board Tony Hawk: Shred sells horribly and gets awful reviews It has a shitty board Take a note Activision[/QUOTE] Agreed, Pro-Skater 2 was the shit.

Anyone remembers how awesome the soundtrack of each single numbered tony hawk pro skater game was? Especially pro skater 2.

Ah ha. Activision, you cheap skates. :smug:

Skate beats the shit out of tony hawk series now ( the recent ones though ) Pro skater 3 and 4 were awesome, getting sweet combos etc. And is it me or does pro skater 4 graphics look better than shreads ?

They ruined it with Project 8. THAW wasn't exceptional but not bad, and both THUG games were the best. Tony Hawk's games were good because they were arcade gameplay, and the Underground nailed it by applying a story and some awesome customization features and the park creator. Why did they go and ruin it?

I found Underground 2 to be fun too. [editline]17th November 2010[/editline] Nowadays I play Skate 2 and 3, because the Tony Hawk series have gone down the shitter.

[QUOTE=yuki;26124803]They ruined it with Project 8. THAW wasn't exceptional but not bad, and both THUG games were the best. Tony Hawk's games were good because they were arcade gameplay, and the Underground nailed it by applying a story and some awesome customization features and the park creator. Why did they go and ruin it?[/QUOTE] American Wasteland was OK, and you could play it over xbox live. Speaking of which, I still play it sometimes, anybody else?

playing THUG online was the shit [editline]17th November 2010[/editline] ps2 4 lyfe

I miss the good old days of grinding a flying saucer as Phil Margera in his underwear. New Tony Hawk games are boring as fuck and the skateboard is awful.

[B]Company Firm:[/B] [b]WHAT THE FUCK DO WE DO PEOPLE AREN'T BUYING THIS ANYMORE, WE NEED A NEW GIMMICK![/b] [B]Company Idiot:[/B] I HAVE AN IDEA. People LOVE plastic things like their stupid guitars, well add a cod piece so the player has to jack themselves off to build momentum for the player in CONJUNCTION with using the skateboard to do tricks. That will totally get the franchise off the ground. [B]Boss:[/B] Gentlemen, a promotion is in order. I promote you to company president And that's how Bobby Kotick became president of Activision

Wait until the next generation. Reboot the series as "Tony Hawk: Pro Skater". Give it normal gamepad controls. Nothing fancy - back to basics; plenty of tricks, plenty of skaters. Throw a chunk of cash at advertising. Problem solved.

I stopped playing TH after Underground. It only got fucking terrible after that. Then I discovered SKATE, a game so amazing TH should have never existed.

The last good game of Tony Hawk (in my opinion) was American Sk8land, at least for the DS (the only version that I played). Release date of American Sk8land: November 16, 2005. 5 years from that; i still have some hope on the series.

From the video above, it doesn't look like too terrible of a game, the graphics are alright and the tricks look sort of fun. I think it would have sold much, much better with a little advertising and no dumb looking skateboard peripheral.

[QUOTE=Doomish;26125911]From the video above, it doesn't look like too terrible of a game, the graphics are alright and the tricks look sort of fun. I think it would have sold much, much better with a little advertising and no dumb looking skateboard peripheral.[/QUOTE] The video posted above is from RIDE. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7yL1Pbd59M[/media] this is Shred and it looks like dogshit.

I think they're attempting to be realistic like the Skate series, they shouldn't. They should remain with the fun unrealistic gameplay.

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[QUOTE=Kalkka;26126152]The video posted above is from RIDE. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7yL1Pbd59M[/media] this is Shred and it looks like dogshit.[/QUOTE] how is that black guy a professional skateboarder he looks like 12 Also, it looks like a PS2 game, overpriced as fuck because Activision bundled a shitty plastic controller with it.

I still don't get what idiot came along and thought there was something wrong with the original Tony Hawk formula and decided it needed to be changed to the point everything that made the series what it is had to be replaced with a dumb-down linear experience with little to nothing to actually do.