EA’s SKATE Demo Delayed
By David on Monday, August 13th, 2007 at 10:51 PM PST In Electronic Arts, Game Consoles, Games Industry, Microsoft, Sony
Demos here, demos there, demos everywhere. Eternal Sonata, Stranglehold, and Bioshock, the recent releases of these incredible demos have sent my seasonal expectations into overdrive. What would make these last couple of weeks complete? How about the SKATE demo from EA? Sure, why not?
Well, looks like we may have to wait another week. EA has just announced that they are going to miss their SKATE demo expected release of 8/15, (On Xbox Live, no current date for PS3 demo) using the extra development time to work out some of the kinks. What kinks you ask? Well, here’s the official word from the EA spokesperson.
“We are trying something completely new for an Xbox Marketplace demo in allowing people to play the game and upload footage they take in-game to our Skate website. The skate.reel video upload functionality is much more technically complex than a standard offline demo, and the number of moving parts have resulted in undue & hard-to-predict delays.”
You can make online skate videos with the DEMO? Cripes, kiss my social life goodbye. Luckily for us, the word from the official forums is that the expected delay should not last more than a week.
EA GAMES…NEXT TIME MAKE A PC VERSION, I HATE CONSOLES!!!
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Seriously, it’s not necessary to fire off foul language over a game demo.
Ron Whitaker
News Manager
Gaming Today @ FileFront.com
PC is the best format. You can use a gamepad on it as well and you don’t HAVE to pay for some kind of Live package to play online with all of the features.
dude calm down youre an angry person ok consoles rule except ps3 cause they suk
@billypotato, lmao, you think ps3 sucks? lol you are one stupid fanboy if you think that, i have all three and none of them suck, and the ps3 is my fav. let me guess kid, your mommy wont buy you one? lol thats where the ps3 hate comes from, price, everything else about the system rules.
@lord:
other than it running Madden 08 at 30fps while 360 owners run at glorious 60 fps.
@ hutch, interesting as the ps3 has free online and you can use a mouse and keyboard but oh wait its half the price of a decent pc
@ THELORD:
Um, how much are you paying for your PCs then hotshot?
I got a Gateway, Dual-Core 3.1Ghz, 2 Gigs RAM for $600 at Tiger Direct. They were also doing blow-outs on video cards at TD, so I got a handy little PCI-E ATI 256MB that isn’t top-end but runs anything (save for Crysis) pretty nicely for about $150.
And the last time I checked you can hook your 360 UP to your PC, running Live w/ Messenger in the background? Yep you rock.
OWNED ps3 sucks ass ps was always the shit system
@Hutch
Calm down man, $50/yr for xbox live Gold membership is WELL Worth it.
Unless, you’re a 13 year old little boy, then it is EXTREMELY WORTH IT. (more time to play with it)
PC pwnz consoles. end of story
@zack, the ps3 can run messenger via web based apps, and you certaintly found a good deal on a pc, but you mention it right there in you post, crysis, that is the game to have, and if your pc can’t handle it then its not that good a pc, mine can and it cost me a pretty penny, much more than 1000 dollars, and the ps3 can also link to a pc, just so you know
Man this stinks ps3 owners always get discriminated against just because of the lack of games. well i am going to be a future ps3 owner and the future looks bright for me cause come 08 ps3 will take gaming by storm just watch and i am serious. plus al those 360 owners please stop bragging on how good your frame rate is it’s just for this year haha!!!!!!!! ya know why cause next year ea said there gonna focus on the ps3 version cause thihs year what did a ps3 owner do to diserve this punishment!!!!!!!
Pc Blows…360 4 life ya noobs
I have been waiting for this demo for like 2 weeks and it sucks to hear its being delayed but ill live with it becuase by the looks of this game i can wait…
and those people out there that are saying ps3 is good…..your dumb maybe the only reason its free online is because sony online blows balls and loading is a lot longer then the 360
y has this turned into a debate over which console (or pc) is the best?? THIS IS ABOUT DELAYING AN AWESOME GAME THAT WE’VE BEEN WAITING FOR. i could care less about the online in a demo, i jus wanna play the game
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Language, Cory. Language.
Ron Whitaker
News Manager
Gaming Today @ FileFront.com
ive been waiting for this demo to come out for forever
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Antihero06, there’s no need for that, is there?
Ron Whitaker
News Manager
Gaming Today @ FileFront.com
noooooooooooooooooooooooooo ever since if ound out of this demo 5 days ago ive been so happy and i stayed up all night and now i figure out its delayed im so pissed who cares about online i just want to play the game ea especilly at the last min omg plz just post it
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Balke, let’s cut back on the profanity, eh?
Ron Whitaker
News Manager
Gaming Today @ FileFront.com
i wanted to play this demo for so long and i care about playing it more than goin out and skateing. god is it seriously cuz there was a bug in the reel.skate thats gay i really dont care about taking a video and ptting it on the internet
Thanks EA, for ruining my Day.
Dw, ill get over it soon enough.
Just Hurry up with the freaking demo!
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SA, let’s try to make our point without all the profanity, eh?
Ron Whitaker
News Manager
Gaming Today @ FileFront.com
ea has been known for messing up potentially good games in the past and ever since i heard of this demo i’ve had this phobia that they would do the same for skateboarding. i think the first signs of idiocy are starting to show from ea’s part. just post the damn demo (for ps3 too plz) who cares about skate reel for now we just wanna feel the controls. plz put it up soon and don’t f**k it ea. SKATEBOARDING FOR LIFE
ive been waiting 9days 17hours and 54minutes since i first saw the demo release date on the skate website and now i have to wait ANOTHER week im really pissed off
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Seriously, I understand that you guys are worked up over the delay, but keep the profanities out of your posts. They’re pointless.
Ron Whitaker
News Manager
Gaming Today @ FileFront.com
360 is by far the best system sence it has outsold the ps3 by a lot!!! when is the skate demo coming out now
A skating game, big whoop, wanna fight about it?
I’ve no idea why you’re all getting worked up about a skating game.
you kids need to get a life. go outside
the only reason the ps3 was outsold is because it’s more expensive. but it’s more expensive for a reason and that’s simply because it’s better. i was willing to spend an extra buck and was worth it. SKATEBOARDING FOR LIFE
i’m sorry for going out of the topic but some dudes piss me off
COME ON I WANNA PLAY SKATE. THIS SUCKS
I dont care about the online… who cares about skate reel? leave that till the actul game, i jus want a demo, plain and simple!!
Is it too much to ask huh?
PS3 is a really good system.. the games are better like the are bigger because they use Blue Ray Disc and not DVD disc like the 360. and Online is free *BONUS* But the PS3 doesnt have that many games so everybody thinks it sucks because of that
nah thats not true PS3 just sucks no matter how many games come out
ive been waiting a long time for this demo and urging to play it. i check the XLmarketplace like every hour for it to be up when im not doing that im skating. and when i heard it was delayed i was liks holy S
T it dosent take a few days for final touchs really ea hurry up.
lol @ all pc haters.. i personally own 360 and ps3 and i still prefer my pc over both…. a pc can be upgraded over time to expand with growing graphics applications and for about 1/4 of the price it would cost to buy a new system everytime graphics get more advanced and consoles become obsolete leaving you with a pointless system that can no longer play the newest games which will eventually end up sitting in your closet or you end up trading it in and getting 40$ for it. I still love playing console games but theres definately no competition between pcs and consoles.. end of story
try scanning ebay DEEP
damon116 the 24th im getting it on my b-day 14th
why has the demo not been realeased yet
Iv’e heard a roumor that the demo is going to realese 21aug… But I don’t know
EA skate demo is out!!!
no it isnt
EA skate. demo should be out on the 21 of August ( Which is tomorrow ).
So it’s just one more day for our cravings for skate.
it is out weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
:) 
its been downloading for 6 and a half hours now, its exsactly 80 % done, hahahaha
lol 6 and a half hours??? how slow is ur internet access? lol
i dont think his acces i bad its that many people is trying to download it and that makes everybody go slow im only 63 % done
Everyone is getting upset XBox is better that PS3.
1. Halo 3 WILL be beaten by Warhawk, it’s like a Halox10. There’s just way much more than just ground vehicles. Check it out.
2. BlueRay. Duh. BR Discs hold WAYYY More memory to upload game graphics. At least compared to HDDVD discs.
3. PS3 is future proof. Microsoft will be scrambling when they realize that they’ll need BlueRay to keep up with the graphics, yeah PS3’s were known to overheat, but only if you’re stupid enough to leave it in a small space. I talked to a guy that used Folding@Home.com on his PS3 (you don’t need to know what it is)and that runs the PS3 at 100% ALL THE TIME. He’s had it running since December, still no problem. So PS3’s were built to last.
4. Games. Yeah PS3 doesn’t have that many out… yet… Thanks to Warhawk and Lair and MANY more that will come out, PS3 will have plenty of games soon. Plus, you probably forgot that the 360 came out about a year before the PS3.
That just shows you the PS3 is better. And when the original XBox came out after the PS2, and BEFORE the PS3, how couldn’t Sony be doing well.
Enough of this ranting. You’ve probably figured out I have a PS3 by now. As, for SKATE. It will, dare I say, “OWN” No matter what console, it will look great AND perform great. I wish there was a demo for PS3 though. But no matter what, I’m getting Tony Hawk first. It’s not a simulator, and that’s probably why I’m not getting SKATE first. I need a story too.
But hey? We’ll see which comes up on top. Either way, both will be great.
so does anyone no when it comes out for ps3
When is the demo coming out for the ps3 ???
That’s all I want to hear.
I’m hella tired of waiting.