Tony Hawk tells Andrew Schulz how close he came to losing millions YouTube: Flagrant 2Tony Hawk revealed to Andrew Schulz on the Flagrant 2 podcast that Activision tried to buy out his royalties for the Pro Skater series, meaning he would have lost millions on sequels to the popular game. Since the release of Tony Hawk Pro Skater in September 1999, the hit series has sold over 1.9 billion copies across the world. The game spanned four entire generations of video game consoles, even though the popularity of the game trickled off after Neversoft merged with Infinity Ward in 2014. On a November 2 episode of Flagrant 2 with Andrew Schulz, Tony Hawk revealed a few interesting stories \u2013 including how he almost lost millions of dollars after Activision offered to buy him out of his contract. Tony Hawk on Flagrant 2 Podcast Starting off the conversation, Schulz asked the skateboarding legend: \u201cI was reading some statistic where they thought it was going to sell a quarter million games, and it sold like five million?\u201d Tony Hawk just so happened to have a story to tell regarding the initial release of his popular Pro Skater series, explaining a phone call that he received from Activision right before launch. \u201cAs the game neared release, they could sense the buzz of it. They called and offered me a buyout,\u201d Hawk explained. \u201cThey had offered me a half a million dollars. I had just moved into a new house and I was starting to make good money as a pro skater, so I decided to take a chance on it. If I hadn\u2019t bought that house right then, I probably would have taken it.\u201d The professional skateboarder went on to mention that he\u2019s excited he didn\u2019t take the buyout offer, as it would have taken away royalties from every sequel to the game and millions of dollars out of his pocket. Tony Hawk mentioned later in the episode that he has had a ton of different opportunities be offered to him with the release of his video game series. It\u2019s unknown how much different his life would be now had he said yes, but one thing\u2019s for certain \u2014 his pockets would probably be a little bit lighter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tony Hawk tells Andrew Schulz how close he came to losing millions YouTube: Flagrant 2Tony Hawk revealed to Andrew Schulz on the Flagrant 2 podcast that Activision tried to buy out his royalties for the Pro Skater series, meaning he would have lost millions on sequels to the popular game. Since the release of Tony […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}