What's up with the Xbox LIVE Arcade price changes lately? First it was Madballs, and now TMNT: Turtles in Time Re-Shelled has been dropped from $15 down to a fair $10 ... and it hasn't even been released yet. The switch was confirmed by IGN, but no one knows for sure why it occurred.
Perhaps Microsoft heard a complaint or two from a couple of guys on the Internet? Sure, let's go with that. Talk about a heartwarming, inspiring tale. Hell, let's make a children's movie out of it.
The second I heard about Turtles In Time's revamped look, I immediately knew buying the remake would be a poor idea for me -- I own the Super Nintendo version and can only truly love sprite-based beat-'em-ups.
Besides, the game is wicked short and will undoubtedly be even shorter when you have co-op buddies who know what's up. Are any of you going to download it now that there's been a change in price?
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1:00 AM on 07.31.2009
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$10 or $15, I'll be getting it.
I seriously hope this is a trend, because there was absolutely no fucking justification to sell games that were finally worth the standard $10 for 50% extra. If they can keep their prices down, I'll be far more likely to download games, which is more money than they'd get from me otherwise.
If it lands at $10 for the PSN... Sold! It will be a great trip down nostalgic lane. =)
Turtle power!
Which doesn't make sense when Castle Crashers is the sales king of XBLA, and it's 1200 pts, but whatever. I'm just glad they're realizing that 1200 is a silly price point, and 1600 is just absurd.
(BTW, MS doesn't set the price. The publishers pick the price point.)
If only they did this with fucking Lode Runner, which I really don't wanna pay 15 bones for.
Damn teenagers.
In both sales numbers and content.
/me runs!
What kind of illogical world do you live in?
Then again, I don't even know what 800 points is in real dollars :x
No for real! For the last month or two, Topher has had a vocal beef with the price of that game on every podcast where its come up. Someone probably heard him complaining, and made a wise decision.
Though, He'd probably say its still overpriced for what it is.
So, I'm gonna need for Topher to complain about every $15-$20 XBLA game that's about to come out...
What about Jim's 200+ comment article, that hit Digg in a big way? :D
Unless all of my friends buy it, then I'll succumb to peer pressure.
At any rate, my buds and I couldn't wait to play it again. I'm so pumped!
Style-wise, I really wish they'd have stayed 2D or 2Desque (cell shading). Oh well, the price drop made it a buy for me.
undecided for now.