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Skate Coming To Wii And Nintendo DS?
Posted by Michael McWhertor at 10:20 AM on April 3, 2008
We may have a good idea what those Skate "extensions" are that EA Games president Frank Gibeau teased a couple months ago, as IGN reported earlier today that Skate It, a spin-off planned for the Nintendo DS and Wii, was in the works. Curiously, IGN has since pulled that report, hinting that either that information was wrong or not yet deemed fit to print by the powers that be.
Consider it rumour for now—whilst fantasizing about Wii Balance Board control!--and pretend to be surprised when EA and IGN work out their arrangement on the game's potential public reveal. In the meantime, we'll check with EA to see if there's more substance to this.
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pandafresh
Posted 11:08 AM 3/4/08
it wont work with one stick or a stylus. please! give us Skate 2 for ps360, and make the character customization a bit better, that was my only gripe! a more stable framerate would be killer too. but please! we dont need crappy ports.
pandafresh
ivan225
Posted 11:07 AM 3/4/08
i know its off topic but is any of you guises call of duty 4 xbox live working
ivan225
ZombiePuppy
Posted 11:04 AM 3/4/08
Maybe it was a prank?
ZombiePuppy
Grumps
Posted 11:01 AM 3/4/08
if it was the 360 and the balance board maybe, but I don't have much faith in the wii(nintendo's of course, not mine) anymore. They can always start proving me wrong, but my Wii(again the Nintendo one has been really only in use when guests are over and even then we play rock band on 360 anyway.
Grumps
jp182
Posted 11:01 AM 3/4/08
yeah it won't work with just one analogue stick.
i could see it happening on the wii fit board though :-)
jp182
Bernard McGraw
Posted 10:58 AM 3/4/08
... Just maybe this'll be good?
@illmatic291: It'd need another analogue stick though, wouldn't it.
Bernard McGraw
Genocyde
Posted 10:55 AM 3/4/08
Just release a Top Skater port from Sega on the Wii. That game was the total shit and it would be great on a WiiBoard.
Genocyde
Pata-pwn(TM?)
Posted 10:49 AM 3/4/08
It's EA, why even bother considering it a rumour, you know they'll try porting it to every system them can.
Pata-pwn(TM?)
Thrillhaus
Posted 10:48 AM 3/4/08
With the balance board this could be good.
But shit can they please stop with these year-late-to-the-party wii ports already?! Come up with something new for fucks sake...
Thrillhaus
Lemming To The Sea
Posted 10:46 AM 3/4/08
I'm calling it now they're both going to suck.
Lemming To The Sea
illmatic291
Posted 10:44 AM 3/4/08
Fuck the DS what about the PSP?
illmatic291
Lot Krotan
Posted 10:44 AM 3/4/08
skate for wii with wii fit board support = win
Lot Krotan
TOCATL
Posted 11:58 AM 3/4/08
@Lot Krotan: That would kick some serious @ss..
TOCATL
Shaverdian
Posted 11:58 AM 3/4/08
If it ever does come to the Wii, it's obviously going to look like crap.
Shaverdian
LittleBigPlaneteer
Posted 11:36 AM 3/4/08
@Pata-pwn(TM?):
Exactly what I was going to say
LittleBigPlaneteer
Lot Krotan
Posted 11:33 AM 3/4/08
@D00mM4r1n3:
[product.half.ebay.com]
$30 with shipping :)
Lot Krotan
RickBarrs
Posted 11:32 AM 3/4/08
Until a skateboarding game brings back Radical Rodney, I'm out.
The world needs more Dangerfield-themed characters.
RickBarrs
D00mM4r1n3
Posted 11:29 AM 3/4/08
I'm still waiting for a price drop on the 360 version. It's rare for an EA game to go this long without one.
D00mM4r1n3
strobefx
Posted 11:25 AM 3/4/08
I'd like to point out that the balance board idea would require much too activity for a game of any real depth. It would get really damn annoying after an hour of standing in one place bending your knees.
strobefx
Kfizz311
Posted 11:21 AM 3/4/08
maybe they could make it work back words and us the pointer to tell where you go and the left stick to do the tricks.
Kfizz311
Lemming To The Sea
Posted 11:20 AM 3/4/08
I really doubt this will be a balance board title and to assume so would just be hoping for something that's too good to be true...
Lemming To The Sea
ZombiePuppy
Posted 1:20 PM 3/4/08
@Pata-pwn(TM?): I want to have your nickname's babies.
@Shaverdian: Go back to /v/ and take your flamewar trolling with you.
ZombiePuppy
greatslack
Posted 2:06 PM 3/4/08
It would be great if the Wii version let you actually flip the remote around for which trick you wanted. Only thing is, that might get a little tricky with the wrist strap on, and a little too expensive with the wrist strap off.
greatslack
Shteve
Posted 1:54 PM 3/4/08
This could come has an interesting game for the Wii since There's not many good games in sight for the months to come ... It would cool, if ... you know ... it wasn't a shitty port ... I don't want it to be exactly like the 360 version, just a good port !
Shteve
Psicosis
Posted 2:16 PM 3/4/08
A Skate spin-off?
The game is going to be called Walk?
Psicosis
KM91
Posted 2:42 PM 3/4/08
@illmatic291: It faded into obscurity.
KM91
TrevWolf
Posted 5:56 PM 3/4/08
I was about to say it's going to be amazingly bad, but then my mental eye panned to a scene of flikit controls executed via a touch-screen. I then came.
TrevWolf
rainofwalrus [XBL]
Posted 11:23 PM 3/4/08
best game ever...
[youtube.com]
rainofwalrus [XBL]
fuchikoma
Posted 3:39 AM 4/4/08
DS would be cool - graphics would make your eyes bleed, but with the d-pad for body, and the touchscreen for the board it could work - though it may make it way easier.
For the Wii... I don't know. I'd think it works perfectly but after trying Monkey Ball on the Wii I'm not so sure about sure hits anymore. I'd have to see it. It'd be awesome if they could do it with the balance board, but you just know people would be jumping on that thing.
I'd like to say it'd be cool on PSP, but no, this is genuinely a two stick game. I guess body on the face buttons and nub for board control would be ok. The other way around and it would be too much like Tony Hawk for me :p ("X and.... trianglesquarecircle!")
fuchikoma