Is the time of crappy plastic peripheral games truly waning? Tony Hawk: Ride may 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 game forecast to sell just 13,000 copies on the Xbox 360.
These are the NPD predictions ahead of next week’s sales figures, and the outlook is grim for Hawk‘s game, which we deemed to be quite rubbish ourselves. Hawk may not like the recent reviews his 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 Hero did not perform to expectations, and Ride is 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?
