Activision rejected Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3+4 pitch

After a lengthy dormancy, Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater returned in 2020, but it sounds that’s where things are going to stay as developer Vicarious Visions has been relegated as a support studio for Call of Duty. Though, it could’ve been doing much more.

A new report from DidYouKnowGaming on YouTube alleged at some point, Vicarious was privy to work on Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3+4, which would see the latter two games in the mainline series getting the remake treatment, but the idea was shot down by Activison. This was before a bunch of stuff shifted with the studio merging into Blizzard, getting rebranded — to Blizzard Albany — and shifting to work as a support studio on bigger cash cow IPs for the American game dev, like Call of Duty and Diablo.

We knew Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3+4 were in development based on statements from iconic skater Tony Hawk himself during a livestream with andyTHPS circa 2022. But, now we’re just left with hope this isn’t the case, but also aware this would totally make sense considering the studio we’re talking about.