Presumably in response to Electronic Arts' strong Tony Hawk competition with EA Black Box's Skate, Griffith stated, "We're inventing Tony from the ground up."
Activision currently has two separate Tony Hawk games in the works, the first of which is exclusive to Nintendo DS and is planned for launch this year. Vicarious Visions, which has in recent years has enjoyed better critical reception for its handheld Tony Hawk games than Neversoft has for its home console entries, is likely creating the title.
The next Tony Hawk game intended for consoles is a more ambitious development, and will not launch until some time in the fiscal year beginning in April 2009. Said Griffith, "For competitive reasons we're not going to talk about it today, but we're very bullish on the kind of innovation it will bring, and it won't be your father's Tony Hawk."