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EA announces "Skate It" for Wii & DS

May 09, 2008 in News comments 5

Last year, EA released the highly successful Skate for the PS3 and 360. However, the game was noticeably missing from Nintendo consoles. Today, EA announced that they will be bringing the game over to the Wii & DS, in spinoff form. The game, titled Skate It, will utilize the Wii remote and touch screen, and will also support the Wii Balance Board that will ship with Wii Fit in two weeks.

IGN: Why have you decided to make a spin-off instead of bringing the Skate 360/PS3 game to the Wii and DS?

Scott Blackwood: We know a growing number of gamers have more than one next-gen system and we wanted to make sure that skate fans who have already played Skate got a new, quality skateboarding experience re-imagined for their other favorite game systems… much like what the team sought to accomplish on the other gaming systems. It gave us a whole new challenge to take on and the opportunity to turn up the good even further.
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    Chad May 10, 08
    Using the Wii Balance Board on a skate boarding game is going to be awesome. I can't wait to see what it feels like. The touchscreen features for the DS version will be pretty cool too!
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    Jagermax May 10, 08
    Using the board from Wii Fit is a great idea, I will probably end up with the game, so hopefully it works well. =D
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    doylie May 10, 08
    Playing Skate on a touch screen would just make the controls sloppy and anooying, however palying it on the Wii Fit board sounds pretty fun.

    Except on those screenshots, the graphics look aweful.
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    chaos May 11, 08
    Nice. EA beat Activision to the punch by making a skateboarding game compatible with the balance board. Skate is a great game, I think it's even better than the Tony Hawk games, so it should work out great on the Wii.
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    The Don May 12, 08
    I think the Skate game for the consoles are really unique and original as you are more interactive with the controls and it is more realistic. In the Tony Hawk games, you could pull off a 360 heelflip with a stiffy going into a manuel WAY too easily.

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