Now here is something really interesting. Activision has officially announced a remaster of the first two Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater games. Alongside the announcement, the publisher released the first in-game trailer. However, Sony has managed to mislead gamers by removing a very important detail from the official trailer.
As the official announcement trailer clearly states at the beginning, the gameplay shown here was captured on the PC. However, Sony has edited and removed that small detail from the PS4 trailer. Thus, the company is basically misleading gamers who may assume that what they’re seeing is what they’ll be getting on PS4.
Now there is a possibility that the PS4 Pro version may look and run similar to the PC version. Obviously, we won’t know until publications get their hands on both the PS4 and the PC version. Sony claims that the game will run with 60fps on PS4. Whether it will run at native 4K remains to be seen. It’s unlikely but hey, you never know. Also, it’s hilarious that Sony is hiding the fact that the official trailer is from the PC version.
For what it’s worth, Vicarious Visions is developing Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2 Remaster. The game will feature new assets, higher polygon skaters and modern-day effects. The PC version will support both 4K resolutions and 60fps (as we can clearly see in the trailer). Moreover, the game will release on September 4th, exclusively via Epic Games Store.
Lastly, Sony is not the only offender here. Microsoft has also removed that detail from the Xbox trailer of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2. This is the definition of false advertising, especially since the original trailer clearly mentions that this gameplay is from the PC version. Now, theoretically speaking, Xbox One X could hit a native 4K resolution as it’s more powerful than PS4 Pro. That’s why this isn’t such a big issue with Xbox One X. And, to be honest, it seems unlikely that PS4 Pro will be able to hit a 4K native resolution. Obviously, PS4’s checkerboard will make it display a 4K image. However, and if you feel fine with this, I guess we can all claim to be running all games in 4K while using a lower internal resolution. We can all start lying to ourselves.
You can find below both the official trailer, as well as the edited PS4 trailer.
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Well its from Activision ……..Pass !
Misleading name.
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Meh, who cares. The game will look more or less identical anyway. As long as it is 60 fps I don’t see anything to be concerned with.
Right, I’m not playing Skate as a visual benchmark. I just wanna do some stunts.
wow cool! not. give us a new game. 1 and 2 are so dated now gameplay wise.
They are probably really scared to try anything new after the last game
https://store.steampowered.com/app/861650/Session_Skateboarding_Sim_Game/
That’s a simulator. I don’t care about skateboarding, I like video games like THPS Underground 2 where I can do 900s over cruise ships and stuff.
How is this news worthy? Standard practice with multiplat, trailers are always PC…
Slow news month…
You know a couple of years ego i would have asked the same thing, literally.
But in recent times with these big compnaies are straight up deceaving consumers while trying to convince them it will run and play “the same” in every system more than ever, this could be a helpfull “news trend” or kind of a heads up for “they pulling an Ubisoft here”
99% of consumers don’t care
We’re just talking about using PC footage because it’s the best representation of the game, that’s different from completely fake builds of the game with graphics that look completely different at release, which is what Ubisoft is famous for.
Isn’t this standard practice for multiplatform games? I do not recall any complaints when similar trailers are done for Battlefield, Call of Duty, etc.
As said in the news, the youtube channel for the XBOX doesn’t show the “captured on pc” either. So.. maybe change the title? There’s a lot of people that only reads the title.
As said in the news, the youtube channel for the XBOX doesn’t show the “captured on pc” either. So.. maybe change the title? There’s a lot of people that only reads the title.
This is old news console showcasing trailers using assets from the most powerful machines even back on ps1 era
I remember tomb raider 3 ps1 game box screenshots in the back were definitely from the pc version,splinter cell chaos theory trailers and screenshots were taken from the pc/xbox versions and yet in playstation/nintendo magazines screenshots and demo disc trailers instead of showing us what the game would really look on the ps2/gamecube they used the best version assets and footage,imagine the shock when someone got their hands on the ps2/gamecube version of chaos theory expecting the visuals showcased in trailers and footages
Also hitman blood money ps2 version screenshots in the back of the case or even in official ps2 magazines were from the pc/xbox 360 versions
So its nothing new
“Sony misleads gamers, removes “Gameplay captured on PC” from Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2 PS4 Trailer”
Should be
“Sony and Microsoft mislead gamers, remove “Gameplay captured on PC” […]” https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/b3bdef1b758c43c14237cc50f26064941dc1848c66e6461a6a7ea02f1c4fb720.png
I think what it means is that they both used the same footage – but M$ left the “captured on PC” in their edition of the trailer – while Sony tried to remove it to make everyone believe that it was Playstation footage.
Xbox did it too. Strange a full article dedicated to that…
Add the xbox too and update the article.
They do this on every single one of the games released on their platform
That’s some desperate click bait.
This article makes it out like these are some next-gen games with graphics unattainable on consoles or something. It’s just a remaster, nothing to gasp at.
Y’all seriously need to get life.
Xbox:
https://youtu.be/JC8owhVU0cI
??????????
Is it misinformation that I read in this article?
Where is the other article saying that Microsoft did the same and that Activision is responsible for sending these videos to the publishers?
F*king dumba*s! hahhahahahaaa
Don’t be a whiny b*tch
Sponsored article to bad mouth sony and spread misinformation. Good thing I have adblock for this site.
Typical consoles removing things from thier trailers to make it seem like it can run it as shown. Meanwhile the switch is so crap they removed the logo for it entirely because no one would believe it could run on it
I see we’re back to the two of them seeing PC as competition again…
Always at the start of a new gen as well.
This article should be titled sony and microsoft or s &
ms, this author is misleading people.