Is the time of crappy plastic peripheral games truly waning?Tony Hawk: Ridemay have felt it could keep things going by giving us a little fake skateboard, but it would appear that the market is sick of all the toys and gimmicks that have saturated the gaming market, with the boarding gameforecast to selljust 13,000 copies on the Xbox 360.
These are the NPD predictions ahead of next week’s sales figures, and the outlook is grim forHawk‘s game, whichwe deemed to be quite rubbishourselves. Hawkmay not like the recent reviewshis game has received, but it seems that he’ll dislike the public’s reaction even more.
Evil publisher Activision has been jumping the shark lately with its convoluted peripheral games and it seems that people have had their fill of gimmicky, squeaky, expensive toys.DJ Herodid not perform to expectations, andRideis scheduled to follow suit. Really though, what could Activision expect? Surely people have run out of room in their houses for all this sh*t?
