Tony Hawk’s Project 8 offline on PS3, online Xbox 360 features detailed
Neversoft has dropped online play from the PS3 version of Tony Hawk’s Project 8. On the Xbox 360 it will feature: support of Live, classic two-player challenges, a new game called Walls (which plays like Snake or Tron), and up to eight-player online games.
The Tony Hawk developer only recently received PS3 dev kits and has not had time to implement online play for of the Japanese and U.S. PS3 launch on November 11/17, 2006. The Xbox 360 version is coming to Europe on October 27 and to the U.S. on November 7.
Neversoft is confident the PS3 version of the game will ship at launch in November, but it still hasn’t received all of the software libraries and has no indication of how the online components will work on PS3, so it’s not offering them. For a software company that’s always supported the PlayStation system and was, in fact, the first developer to offer online play on PS2 with Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3, that’s saying something.
Neversoft wouldn’t explain any further, but it’s clear to this reporter that if Neversoft could go online with the PS3 version, it would.
Neversoft General Manager Scott Pease explained that the PS3 version would have special things not offered in the Xbox 360 version. He wouldn’t list details, but the special additions might be cameo appearances by special celebrities or additional modes of play. IGN saw (but did not play) the PS3 version in motion and yes, even now it looks very much like the Xbox 360 version.
Neversoft said the visuals on both games will look nearly identical. Check out this Trick Mode trailer:
Very sad to hear that 
