I'm too distraught about this Tony Hawk 4 thing.
Tony Hawk 3 on the Xbox didn't support online play, and I wasn't crazy about that but I came to terms with it. It simply came out too early to have that feature, there was no infrastructure yet, so whatever. But no Xbox Live support in Tony four? Unacceptable.
When they were making Tony Hawk 4, they may have had an Xbox or two around. They might have seen a scary hole on the back, and like dogs perhaps cocked their heads with fear and mute curiosity. Let me clear up any lingering mystery: it's a network port. To connect to networks. Like the Internet. To play games. I see that they support the network option on the Playstation 2, which requires seperate hardware altogether. Pretty classy.
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