Tony Hawk: Play Ride and We’ll be Best Friends Forever

Tony Hawk’s Twitter is again ablaze with brilliantly quotable, graceless, “picked last in the football lineup” cries for Ride attention. Tweeting desperately on several occasions, Hawk stoops to offering his virtual friendship as incentive for taking the critically panned, space wasting, carpet boogie board online.

“On XboxLive right now playing @thride” said Hawk, presumably tired of hitting “find players” to no avail. “Who wants some?” taunted Tony, speaking as Ride’s sole director of online communications and marketing before offering the disclaimer “invites for other games will be denied”, presumably to bat away the 452nd Skate 2 invite of the evening.

After subtly dropping his gamertag “tonyinegypt” into one-way conversation, the skateboarder later tweeted “and sorry to those that enountered [sic] a full friends list. Will do some Spring Cleaning tomorrow (hint: if you play @thride online, you’re in)”. While the friend cap upheld stolidly by Microsoft is an annoyance for many, it seems unlikely that it was Ride’s legion of ardent kickflippers that can really be blamed for Hawk’s full house.

Poor first month sales spelled reasonable disaster for the Robomodo-developed franchise reboot, as the cumbersome oblong gradually shied from the store shelves of all but the largest stockists. With DJ Hero receiving similarly stunted retail attention over the traditionally busy Christmas period it seems as if consumers may have reached living room plastic saturation, unwilling to bend whether a game is good (DJ Hero) or not (Tony Hawk: Ride).

Via: Ripten