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Could Olympic slopestyle give us a video game

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Balmdogg
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Now that freeskiing will be exposed to a huge market via the winter olympiad it could help to push for a proper budget and development of a video game that we could all be stoked on. I see this a one of the positives of our sport making it onto the huge mainstream stage. While for the purist the X Games is the pinnacle of the competition scene it doesn't come close to the exposure that the olympics has and will connect our sport with people who will never go skiing but after seeing it may want eto try it as a virtual experience.
In my opinion I just dont think that a freeskiing game currently would sell enough copies. even if everyone on NS bought a game that would not be enough revenue to entice a game studio to put the time into developing it but with the exposure of a sport, its athletes and brands on an olympic level we could see an awesome skiing game pop out in 2014. Its a long time to wait but it could be what we have been waiting for.
Jul 5 2011 8:03AM
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Sam.Carson
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^^^ i to have the same question.
Jul 7 2011 1:30AM
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fujarome
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not really...


the difference is that there is a bigger market for skateboarding. You see people who have never even been on a board wearing traditional skate brands, and are vaguely aware of the sport/it's celebrities. People simply like it for one reason or another.


You go out and ask most people who their favorite xgames skier is, and most would probably say bode miller. Ski-specific brands are not as widely popular, and again, the vast majority of people barely know our sport exists.


Remember how many outlandish and crazy games skating went through before skate finally came out? A ton. Skiing has thus far been in about...3 games. (though i doubt most ns'ers have heard of tommy moe's winter xtreme)



We've simply got a long way to go, and i don't see us getting a skate type game right away, if ever.
Jul 7 2011 11:59AM
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jmasterp
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I think some of us just want more of a realistic jumps and jibs and shit not a rail with no jump onto it and do a dub back. I would rather have all the parks features be realistic or a familiar park like Breckinridge to ride in
Jul 7 2011 12:54PM
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skibum27
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NOTHING will ever be as good as Jonny Moseley Mad Trix . . . where have you all been?

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Jul 7 2011 10:00PM
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ndye
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But we have Jib life!
Jul 7 2011 10:26PM
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blindside
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Jul 7 2011 10:37PM
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TheDavisMobile
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Young whipper snappers!!!!
Jul 7 2011 11:13PM
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[evan]
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This.
Jul 7 2011 11:23PM
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Buck_Longe
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How bout get outside and do something...good god
Jul 8 2011 12:31AM
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broto
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i'm not hating because i want you to make this game so so bad, but can we get a little update on how jib-life is coming? fuck off to all of you saying LOLOL IT'LL BE DONE IN 2053 LOLOL. i just want a real, actual update. maybe even a projected release date, even if it's two years from now. PLZZZZZZZ
Jul 8 2011 2:52PM
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.RYAN66
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good luck lol. i think everyone on here truly wants this game to be released deep down inside but we have just come to accept that it probably will never happen.

Jul 8 2011 4:59PM
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Elmo.
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this. doing like a 7 u need to be on a mega ramp or massive amounts of speed in a quarterpipe
Jul 8 2011 5:33PM
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artrud
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i work at Xbox, I'll see what i can do....
Jul 8 2011 5:54PM
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.ZT.
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gnarshmallow!! jk. but it is fun
Jul 8 2011 6:04PM
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.ZT.
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also there is the game jibbin. but seriously get outside and ski or do something.
Jul 8 2011 6:09PM
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T.Hartman
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I work at EA. Would you be down for a collaboration?
Jul 9 2011 4:42PM
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deleted5
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you clearly don't skate again that game is not fucking realistic.
Jul 11 2011 6:58PM
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gravel
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This totally.

The other day I was doing some grabbed rodeos and mistys off of a bridge into the ocean, but people seemed more interested in other people doing "360-Cannonballs". The general public really wouldn't be able to understand a game with stylish smooth tricks.

On the other hand, if they are seeing the way people do tricks in the Olympics, wouldn't they be more likely to understand those tricks?
Jul 11 2011 10:33PM
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erikK
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I'm gonna go ahead and say that by the time the Olympics come quads won't be enough to win
Jul 12 2011 12:18AM
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