I would hope that it's not selling on any system. The price tag is ridiculous, and the concept just screams gimmick.

@WarZombie

Keep dreamin' bwoy. It's what gives us people hope.

If they had half a brain, they would be working on a patch to let the game use a standard controller and quickly release a $30 version sans the overpriced board perph.

It's the only way they will ever get my money (short of the original combo eventually ending up in a $20 bargin bin).

It's possible that Ride's poor sales could be blamed on an oversaturation of gimmicky plastic peripherals but it's more likely because it is a piece of shit. It seems like people don't mind shelling out a bit extra for these sorts of things as long as they work.

If the game was actually good i would of bought it. I have a normal size house a 1 floor building and i have room for more shit. Just as long as its good.

@WarZombie
As long as they can push billions of CoD titles they can afford to do whatever the hell they want.

Simple. They should have released this on the Wii, for the Balance Board. Developing kit where it's not needed is just stupid.

I'm never paying more than $60 for a game ever again.

Hawk could save some face if they just recalled this product, said yeah ~ we know it was a let down and sucks. Get back to making a good skateboarding game with the original Tony Hawk 2 controls. Just make a solid game that plays well with a regular controller.

At the very least make an alternative DLC controller download for free and sell the game for 20 or 30 bucks. I would be at least willing to check it out but I doubt they thought of that and it wouldn't be possible now.

I liked DJ Hero and despised Guitar Hero

I must be the only one in the universe

I predict they'll scrap the whole thing, gut the boards and bundle the empty shells (for free) with whatever Project Natal game they'll inevitably come out with.

well DJ hero is amazing fun :-)

while I hear that Ride absolutely isn't...

@ Xzyliac

I know, it's more wishful thinking on my part more than anything. But like I said, I just hope more than anything right now that Activision turns this shit around, because remember, EA was in this same position not too long ago and now they churn out some really great games and original IPs, and that benefits all gamers. A new GH, CoD, and Tony Hawk every year isn't benefiting anybody but the mass of stupid people who buy the same shit every single year. Now, I'm not saying MW2 is a piece of shit, but god dammit, I want to see something new from IW. And I'm not the only one.

Every time a Activision-published game like GH or CoD sells worse than the year before, is a step forward for us as gamers. Shit like Singularity is a sign that maybe, just maybe, Activision is beginning to realize that new IPs can make money just like one of their milked-to-the-bone franchises can. And new IP = Win for us as gamers.

To summarize, I hope Activision begins to lose enough momentum to get the ball rolling again. Singularity looks great, and hopefully Activision will take more chances on new IP like this. The only way this happens is if stuff like Tony Hawk here begin to sell like shit.

It's like we're back in the NES era with R.O.B.s and fucking Power Gloves.

Looks wank, sounds wank, everyone I've read says it's wank, costs a lot of money, published by activision, can't imagine ever using the controller for another game, standing up to play video games sucks ass, so, uh, yeah, not buying.

Call me old fashioned, but give me a controller anyday.

@WarZombie
Yeah. Really I think half of this stems from who we the community decide to villify. It's a cycle. We love 'em, then we hate 'em, then we love 'em again.

Everyone goes through it. EA, Microsoft, Wal-Mart, Mickey D's, Sony, it's a pattern and really none of them have gotten "better." Oh the power of rebranding.

The key is simple, if you're expecting the public to fork over relatively large sums of money for a yet another piece of plastic, make sure the thing bloody works. I actually was looking forward to Ride and wouldn't have minded having another peripheral sitting here so long as it had lived up to its potential.

Unlike Nintendo, people on the PC/Xbox360/PS3 are kind of buried in all the plastic controllers right now (as Nintendo fans should be used to this after it happening on many of their consoles by now) plus it really couldn't have come out at the worst time for them. Didn't the other developers/publishers pushing stuff to 2010 give enough of a hint that some games out in late 2009 will just be overlooked for the bigger name releases? At least they could have put out a few rereleased classic games with this to justify the price of TH Ride.

Unlike Tony Hawk, DJ Hero is a really good game. It deserves to sell more than it has.

Just like to remind Activision that while they were working on established, money making titles to sell a cool 13,000 copies, according to vgcharts Ghostbusters sold over a million total and Brutal Legend sold 650k.