God, Microsoft are cheapskates. Not that that is new info, but it is a bad business decision on their part. Just a quick glance at all the money steam makes when it has a big sale shows what kind of mistake Microsoft is making. You can discount things a good about, do it for a bunch of games/addons ,and still make a really good profit. If Microsoft wants to miss out on that money, that is their choice, but it is a bad business decision.

If you're eying the iOS sales, as far as Sonic goes, ignore them. Just pay full price for Sonic CD, it's well worth it. It makes all the other Sonic games on iOS look like trash.

Does that mean no Android love from Sega? Or just no Android love from Destructoid('s coverage)?

Where is Chu Chu rocket for XBLA DAMN IT! Take my money please.

I hope they discount Sonic 4 for Windows Phone 7 again too.

@eldergias

Blah blah blah, Microsoft's evil, Blah Blah Blah, Don't know what they're doing, Yadda Yadda. Right?

This is Sega's sale *ON* XBL, you know that right? Thats why its not just on XBL and goes across multiple platforms? They probably didn't pick a bunch of things from XBL's line up because a lot of their games already had a bunch of sales and flat out price reductions over the past few months, on that same service. They probably feel like it'd be cutting off their nose despite their face since digital items RARELY ever have a sale two times in a row over a 3 month period.

PSN's version of this sale isn't all that great either if you go by what Dale said, it just has some more stuff on it.. Ohh Daytona and Sega Rally.. Stop the presses Sony wins all! Its funny how people end up talking about XBL's sales and business far more then PSN's, isn't it?

So get off it, mate. We know Microsoft is shady, but so is every company in their own way, they're hardly cheapskates when it comes to sales. Sony did a nice job at pointing out how much peoples saved with PSN+ this year because it was a marketing move to push people to get the improved service and to polish off any ill feelings about the PSN hacking. If you follow XBL's sales and happen to actually buy something from every one, I'm sure you could save just as much. All Sony's really got going for them in that department is that they're willing to give away games as an incentive to joining/being a member -Microsoft does it with Online play (not the best carrot to hang over peoples heads, I know) and now they're doing it with tons of apps/services.

and here I was hoping for the Sonic Racing game for like half off on the Xbox :(

I want a kart racerrrr, but I don't wanna spend moneyyy

isn't it "cutting of their nose to spite their face"

anyways, semantics

@eldergias

It would be nice if Microsoft did that, but it's a corporation, which has to make stock holders happy. Valve is independently owned and can do things a lot differently than Microsoft.