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=== [[Activision]] ===

* ''[[Tony Hawk Pro Skater|Tony Hawk: Ride]]'' was meant to revive a franchise that was [[Sequelitis|long stagnated and decaying]] by [[Waggle|making the player use a skateboard peripheral]] that didn't work as well as advertised. Combined with Hawk himself saying [[Complaining About Shows You Don't Watch|critics decided to hate it before it came out]], gamers weren't likely to be interested in a sequel, as the poor sales of ''Shred'' eventually convinced series publisher [[Activision]] to shelf the series for a while before announcing a "back-to-basics" reboot with ''Tony Hawk's Pro Skater HD''.

* ''[[Tony Hawk Pro Skater|Tony Hawk: Ride]]'' was meant to revive a franchise that was [[Sequelitis|long stagnated and decaying]] by [[Waggle|making the player use a skateboard peripheral]] that didn't work as well as advertised. Combined with Hawk himself saying [[Complaining About Shows You Don't Watch|critics decided to hate it before it came out]], gamers weren't likely to be interested in a sequel, as the poor sales of ''Shred'' eventually convinced series publisher [[Activision]] to shelf the series for a while before announcing a "back-to-basics" reboot with ''Tony Hawk's Pro Skater HD''... which turned out to be a [[Porting Disaster]]. Activison eventually released ''Pro Skater 5'' which seems to have been an ''intentional'' franchise killer: Released just months before their license expired with no fanfare just to sink the value of the license out of spite.

* The ''[[Guitar Hero]]'' franchise came to a halt after ''Warriors of Rock'' lost out to ''[[Rock Band]] 3''. It didn't help that fans had gone through exposure fatigue with the release of several different attempts at spinoffs in the previous two years (''Band Hero'', ''DJ Hero'') within several months of each other. [[Activision]], for their part, have recognised that ''DJ Hero'' was the ''Guitar Hero'' Franchise Killer - they spent so much time and creative energy on ''DJH'' that they forgot that ''GH'' might have needed some love too (four spinoffs != love).

** On a similar note, ''[[Rock Band]]'' appears to be hanging up on its five-button traditional gameplay, possibly due to the rather disappointing 82,000 units ''[[Green Day]]: Rock Band'' sold, and has chosen to expand on the Pro Mode from ''Rock Band 3''.