You might think that just because Robomodo's skateboard peripheral for its upcoming skateboarding title Tony Hawk: Ride is, well, a skateboard, that its uses will be limited to only board-based sports (surfing, snowboarding, wakeboarding, etc.) in the future. However, that would be quite shortsighted of you, so I'll just pretend you didn't mention it.
Robomodo president Joshua Tsui told VideoGamer during E3 2009 that his company sees the board "less as a peripheral" and more as a "platform." Tsui believes that there are a number of different ways the board could be incorporated into a wide variety of titles. Sadly, every time I look at the "platform," all I see is a skateboard, so I guess I won't be the guy who figures out how to do something truly unique with it.
Any ideas how the board could be used in some non-sports-related way? I'd like to see the board incorporated into a futuristic open-world game as a hover-board or some sort. I've got a Pit Bull now!
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Blue_Vortex
I'm not gonna buy this, I already have a balance board why can't they just make more snowboard/skateboard games for the balance board or be a little smarter like skate and do something with the normal controler that hasn't been done yet.
ahorriblemess
They just don't want people to think they're buying an expensive peripheral for one game.
clayfighter
it could be used as some sort of "trade device" where you pretend your returning it for a better game
TheDrizzle85
He must be getting delusions of grandeur or something. The real question here is whether or not this game will sell enough to help the Tony Hawk franchise matter again? And remember, were talking a game thats $120.
Fullarr
You could use it to bludgeon a hooker.
What? Too Far? Meh whatever.
Broken_123
Non sports game related...hmm. I think you could use it as a tray, to carry more beers than your hands, to a room full of ppl playing The Beatles:Rockband.
Giga
things i could think of would include projects with the motion controller where you would use it for scaling walls like we see in ninja games or for the acrobatics in a game like wet. It could be used for games where driving is needed and it would control direction and speed based on how a player stands and leans on it. Could be used in the same method in a fps so instead of having a joystick in your hand like you do with the Wii you can use it for directing your character. those would be the primary options i could see for the device. I'm sure their are other ways to use it to benifit but all i can come up with are related to the motion controller system.
Hand_Banana
DAMN! At a quick glance I thought someone finally did it. Made the Hover board similar to the one seen in Back to the Future II. But no disappointed yet again.
crocodilius
umm...what ever happened to buttons?
not that i play skateboard games, but theyve basically got to the point where its like "ok, im just gonna go outside now"
Korzo
Alright, I weigh about 220 and all I can think is that I'm gonna step on this and it's gonna snap. I'm not quite sure how this thing works and if you actually have to jump to do a ollie then there's no doubt in my mind that this thing will break within a week of use. I've go through a dozen Rock Band drums cause they just don't make them right so unless this thing is spot on perfect there better a some sort of warranty to go with this thing before I can start seeing it as more then just a plastic deck waiting to kill me
blasphemous
if he means platform like "something you stand on" then yeah, otherwise, he needs to stfu and gtfo.
Geoff_12889
It's a peripheral, not a platform. askanison is right, they're just trying to upsell it.
1mikeg
I guess if you hold it against your torso sideways, you could kinda pretend it's a guitar. But I think that genre is already fully saturated.
askanison
That's just stupid. It's a skateboard peripheral, he's just trying to add value to it. I highly doubt any other non-skating or hoverboarding games will support it. New Trickstyle game that supported it would be the bomb though.
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