Tony Hawk Ride, includes a new trick to his virtual routine — a skateboard controller that looks just like the real thing without the wheels. Loaded with high-tech sensors, the controller gets players off the couch and doing flips on the floor.

Hawk’s past titles have sold about 43.5 million units worldwide, generating more than $1.5 billion in sales for its publisher, Activision Blizzard Inc., according to market research firms NPD Group Inc. and Gfk Chart-Track. But sales slipped for the last two iterations, Tony Hawk’s Proving Ground and Tony Hawk’s Project 8.

Tony talked to The LATimes about his first title in two years as well as the unique sensor-board controller and $120 price tag that go with it. Here is the interview

Two years ago, Hawk and Activision decided to take a different path. They switched from the franchise’s longtime developer, Neversoft Entertainment in Woodland Hills, to Robomodo in Chicago. And they added a sophisticated controller.