Shut Up About Tony Hawk's Price

Did you hear? The new Tony Hawk is bad! And it’s 60 dollars!

[GrantPatterson]

It's the fact that the game is $60 at launch, when it's obviously not a complete product. If a car regularly broke down, didn't start or had missing features that the commiserate $30K price tag would indicate, it would cause problems. In fact, those would be the sort of problems that would be duly noted by Consumer Reports or any other watchdog, consumer-driven publication.

On top of that, they'd probably say something like "I cannot believe this car is thirty thousand dollars." or "It's not worth the thirty thousand dollar asking price."

So, when you see a video game do the same exact thing, don't be surprised when the watchdog, consumer-driven industry publications make note of the fact that they cannot believe such a product is being sold to people for $60.

[deathtok]

I hear you that the game has problems but at the same time the comparison is apples and oranges. The car has measurable performance standards and regulations, entertainment doesn't.

The key difference is that video games fall into the realm of entertainment like a movie. Again, I'm not defending the quality of THPS5 but that many of the viewpoints are too subjective.

I suppose that's a benefit of reviews though... I'm saving my $60.

[GrantPatterson]

I think that the game has a particular bar to hit, and the measurable performance standards that the game is being held to are the previous titles in the franchise.

Almost all viewpoints are almost always imbued with some sense of subjectivity. A reviewer tries to remain objective through a subjective lens, so there's always a bit of personal bias as a result. It's pretty unavoidable.

[iceman06]

I think video games also have "measurable performance standards" as well. Sure, they aren't written in stone and governed for the most part. But, at bare minimum they should work as advertised they shouldn't be riddled with game breaking bugs. (not pointing at Tony Hawk since I haven't played it...just generally) That being said, it IS true that entertainment is a different sort of consumer product and it IS quite subjective when it comes to content vs. price. (see any argument about multiplayer only games)

[SpitTake]

Ya, who cares about standards and things because prices relative to their quality or time of development?

[Stringerbell]

Its an interesting discussion to have should we expect more from something because we paid more for it - yeah usually. Take Colonial Marines, 60 bucks? No. I got a new copy for 7 bucks - didn't expect much and yeah I dont have anything positive to say about the game but I've dropped 7 bucks on worse things in life.

[Klonoa-dreamtraveler]

Can't read article cause it says the page contains malware but i'm hearing a lot of the articles being submitted are getting these kind of virus pages so i don't know whats going on with that.

Anyway i did buy the game at launch i didn't pre-order it but i did say i'd try it and i did enjoy playing THPS5 (i did get that feel of the old days playing the old tony hawk games).

Though a lot of things killed the enjoyment specifically the bugs and glitches i didn't so much care on the graphics it's not like tony hawk games stood for any graphical master pieces in the past but i'd run into glitches where you get stuck into the ramp,get kicked off the rail or stuck in the rail, getting kicked out the application etc and a big bug where it deleted all my progress and the only way i got it back was through ps plus storage uploading.

Plus i felt they could of add much more but didn't, like finding the VHS tapes or dvd's getting these in the old games would always unlock some hidden videos and such that added more entertainment in getting them so getting these in this game there was no reward for it at least that i don't know of and the sound track personally i hated the sound track in this game it was boring blah blah blah songs to listen to and none of them got me pumped in the game to skate like in the old THPS games like songs of zeabra head:check or the mad capsule market: pulse or gold finger: superman etc for examples that were fun to listen to. This game only took me a week to platinum and it would of been faster than that if it wasn't for the bugs.

[DrKarateChop]

Just so you know, the malware issue is on N4G's end, and there's really no need to worry.

http://n4g.com/news/1801821...

[slappy508]

I'm more concerned about it's quality than it's price. bad quality is bad quality I wouldn't even pay 15 for it

[Perjoss]

Shut up about the price? haha I'm pretty sure not a soul is talking about this game period after that disastrous launch.

[pompombrum]

This, the game went off my radar after just a few gameplay videos months ago. Looked like trash then, looked like trash a few weeks back when I last saw a video and going by the sounds of it, it is trash.

[secretcode]

Don't tell me what to do.

[Enigma_2099]

The game is $60... and it's not even worth it!!!

[noxeven]

I'm still happy redbox had this so I saved 58 dollars

[N0TaB0T]

Yeah keep bending over to the incompetent studio who has no knowledge nor passion, to ever handle a series they'll never really own.

Tony Hawk 5 is another example of a good series being abused to no foreseeable end. I think the issue of blind submission to companies is even worse -- why complain about the price of sixty for a fifteen-cent piece of trash?

[N0TaB0T]

And by "Good" I mean having soiled the image of the installments which actually mattered. This sucks.