It is unknown at what point Activision was actually with this remake, nor which studios may have been approached by the company to develop the potential game that never happened.
Ultimately, the Vicarious studio as it was previously known ceased to exist.Īccording to Tony Hawk, Activision even sought help from other developers, but none that the company “trusted” to deliver the development of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3+4 as it trusted Vicarious. In January 2023, shortly after the release of THPS 1+2, Activision announced that there would be a merger between the studio and Blizzard, and this would also entail a name change.
However, Activision made major changes that ended up spelling the end of the road for the studio. I would never have imagined we were going to do 1 + 2 20 years later.Vicarious, which Hawk cites, is Vicarious Visions, a studio that made several licensed games and contributed to the games in the Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater series. I mean, who knows? Maybe when all the dust settles, we'll figure it out. "I wish there was some way to bring it back. Like, 'What would you do with the THPS title?' And they didn't like anything they heard, and then that was it."īut, this doesn't mean that there won't be Pro Skater 3 + 4 remakes in the future, and in fact Hawk still has a little faith that it will get made eventually. "The truth of it is that were trying to find somebody to do 3 + 4 but they just didn't really trust anyone the way they did Vicarious, so they took other pitches from other studios.
And then Vicarious got kind of absorbed, and then they were looking for other developers, and then it was over."Īccording to Hawk, Activision did look to hand the Tony Hawk's Pro Skater brand to another studio, but failed to find a developer that suited what the publisher wanted the franchise to be. "That was the plan even up until the release day of, we were going 3 + 4. This information was revealed by Hawk in a livestream with former Neversoft game designer Andy Gentile, one of the very individuals who helped create Pro Skater 1 + 2. However, this plan was scrapped when Vicarious Visions was merged with Blizzard. According to skateboarding legend Tony Hawk, there were originally plans to produce remakes of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4, following the success of Pro Skater 1 + 2's remakes.
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