Professional skater Tony Hawk is reportedly in discussions with Activision regarding the 25th anniversary of the Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater franchise. The athlete discussed his plans on a new episode of Mythical Kitchen, teasing that “something” was being planned to celebrate, though he wouldn’t go into specifics.
“I wish I could tell you more, but I can tell you that I’ve been talking to Activision again, we’re working on something,” Hawk said. “It will be something the fans will truly appreciate.”
In May, video game historian Liam Robertson reported that Activision rejected a pitch for Vicarious Visions to work on Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3+4, despite the incredibly positive reaction to the first remake, Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2. Vicarious Visions officially merged with Blizzard in 2022.
“We settled on adding some handling features from the later games to reflect the way people remember the old Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater games. The improvements from 3 seemed to bleed into people’s memories of the first 2,” the source stated. “Eventually it became clear that we didn’t have time for more than 1 + 2, so the idea that we’d continue on and release 3+4 in some fashion was on the table.”
“We were doing 3 and 4, and then Vicarious got kind of absorbed, and then they were looking for other developers, and then it was over,” Hawk said. “The truth of it is, Activision was trying to find somebody to do 3 and 4 but they just didn’t really trust anyone the way they did Vicarious. So they took other pitches from other studios, like, ‘what would you do with the THPS title?’ And they didn’t like anything they heard, and then that was it.
“Who knows? Maybe when the dust settles, we’ll figure it out. You never know. I never would’ve thought we were going to do 1+2, 20 years later.”
