Update: Good news! Activision confirmed to Eurogamer earlier today that it was "aware" of the issues and "working to fix," and it looks like a patch has now been pushed out which solves the problem. Fingers crossed!
Original Story: Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1+2 has got off to a very rough start on Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S thus far, with consistent reports of crashing from the main menu, and no sign of a fix for the issues as of yet.
Eurogamer reached out to Microsoft (and Activision) for a response on this, and from Microsoft's perspective, the company used the opportunity to subtly highlight that Smart Delivery would have possibly solved the issue:
"Smart Delivery is available to all Xbox developers and publishers. Our partners have the freedom to choose whether to implement the tech based on what they determine is best for their individual games. For questions about Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1+2, please reach out to Activision directly."
If you didn't know, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1+2 for Xbox Series X and S doesn't use Smart Delivery due to being a paid upgrade, and so the game works entirely separately to the Xbox One version, not benefiting from that tech.
It seems pretty crazy that Activision hasn't even issued a formal statement on the crashing problems at the time of writing, as loads of fans have been reporting these issues, but we're assuming we'll hear something relatively soon.
What do you make of this statement from Microsoft? Let us know down in the comments below.
[source eurogamer.net]
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I don't think anybody is surprised by the greed of Activision
These attempts to squeeze more money out of their existing consumers is so shameless and disgusting. Want more money from them, add some DLC, maybe some quick levels put together, and done. They are more likely to get players to pay for content DLC than these next-gen upgrades.
Activision and THQ are disgusting.
Just don't support these devs that want to milk people dry.
Only then will they learn.
The fact they haven't even issued a statement days after sums it up perfectly.
And this is why I don’t buy Activision games
One word: Cretins.
Activision gonna Activision.
I appreciate how Microsoft reiterates that Smart Delivery is available to all developers. Activision using Smart Delivery would have saved them a lot of hassle and bad PR, but they decided to be greedy instead. Hopefully this is a lesson for most developers, there’s no reason not to use Smart Delivery on your Xbox One game if you have the means to.
Activision earned a lot of good-will recently between the remakes of Crash, Spyro and Tony Hawks. No surprise at all to see they are doing everything in their power to trash all of that.
I'm kind of glad MS called Activision out, here.
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