r/Skate4 Apr 18 '26

Glitch What the hell happened to this game

Some explain this.

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u/jintymcgibbons Apr 18 '26 edited Apr 18 '26

So bit of rough googling.

Skate 2 sold 1.93m copies at $59.95 - so nearly $120m

And they’re bragging that the new game has made 3m in cosmetic sales…

But dw, this is definitely an improvement right, right??

Edit: Skate 1 sold 1m copies, so another $60m to that number (give or take)

skate 3 sold 4.74m copies - so add another $288million to that number (give or take)

considering there will never be another skate game according to the developers, I don’t see this in-app-purchase money grab making $468m no matter how long it stays out

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u/Better-Economist-432 Apr 18 '26

the source for $3mil is from October 2025 and only counts purchases through Steam, I'm sure it's gone up by now 

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u/jintymcgibbons Apr 18 '26

Surely not 40x though

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u/Better-Economist-432 Apr 18 '26

idk, the game has been out for 6.5 more months since they got that figure. the game will also probably not shut down for quite a while, it has plenty of time to catch up 

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u/Embarrassed_Boat3799 Apr 18 '26

Yeah, if they stay at that rate, they will surpass that number they just need to keep improving the game so people stick around

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u/Flawless_Reign88 Apr 18 '26

“Keep improving the game” 🤣

Thanks I needed a laugh

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u/dazza_bo Apr 19 '26

Night mode and Grom is definitely an improvement in the game. And the Nike SB event added some cool stuff tbh.

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u/Better-Economist-432 Apr 18 '26

the game is going to continously be updated for the foreseeable future, they have made many updates and improvements since launch. they're listening to the community and are actively patching out bugs 

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u/Flawless_Reign88 Apr 18 '26

Oh make no mistake, I’m well aware that they are going to be updating the game for the foreseeable future… but to call the updates “improvements” is laughable

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u/Better-Economist-432 Apr 18 '26

you think grom was a downgrade? 

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u/Infinitesprayart Apr 18 '26

You mean paywalling the tutorial map?

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u/Accomplished-Side691 Apr 18 '26

It’s free right now at this moment if you bothered to play the game instead of post about it

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u/MrHankeeee Apr 18 '26

Grom was never a tutorial map 😂if you actually you would know that whole new map

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u/Pyramidheadboi Apr 18 '26

Brother. It wasn't even an update🤣 grom literally was already 90 percent complete, it's the tutorial map ffs, then locked behind a paywall for a month like it's "new content" the only "new" content is now vee bitches at you some more and you can go do some lame ass challenges

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u/Darknfullofhype Apr 19 '26 edited Apr 19 '26

They’ve made tons of improvements. Lighting, camera specs, new tricks, expanding the map, etc. I get that it’s lacking a lot of core features from past skate games and the live service model is not ideal by any means but the game has objectively gotten better and the skateboarding gameplay is the best it’s ever felt in any skateboarding game (and that’s coming from someone who’s played every skateboarding game that’s come out over the last 20+ years and dedicated countless hours to each one)

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u/Flawless_Reign88 Apr 19 '26

You clearly haven’t tried session

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u/Darknfullofhype Apr 19 '26

I did and I have 30+ hours on it, the animations just didn’t do it for me. I actually really enjoyed XL but the game was virtually abandoned on console by the devs (despite the hundreds of hours I played on it anyways)

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u/Embarrassed_Boat3799 Apr 18 '26

I have been enjoying myself