SSX on Tour is a snowboarding and skiing game the fourth title in the SSX series of video games for the GameCube PlayStation 2 Xbox and PlayStation Portable. It was released in North America on October 11 2005 and in the PAL region on October 21 2005. The PlayStation Portable version was released in Europe on October 28 2005. In 2007 a prequel titled SSX Blur was released which took place between SSX 3 and SSX on Tour. The GameCube version contains Mario Luigi and Princess Peach as playable characters. This was part of a deal Nintendo had with EA Sports to have Nintendo's intellectual properties appear in EA franchises.