Capcom announced on Monday that the game would be getting a TMNT crossover, which would include new costumes, accessories, emotes, stamps and more.
At the time of the announcement Capcom neglected to including pricing information, but now that the new content is available in the game its various costs are clear.
Players can buy four full Turtle costumes for their in-game avatar, with each costing 750 Fighter Coins, which are the game’s premium currency. If they just want the coloured Turtle masks for their avatar, those cost 250 Fighter Coins each.
The game also includes sticker sets (priced at 100 Fighter Coins), taunts (250), in-game camera frames (100) and in-game device wallpapers (100), at a total cost of 1300.
In all, then, the total cost of all the TMNT content is 5300 Fighter Coins. While these can be earned, they’re mostly bought with real money.
Fighter Coins are sold in bundles of 250, 610, 1250 and 2750. Assuming a player has no Fighter Coins, then, the cheapest way to buy all the TMNT content would be to buy two bundles of 2750 Fighter Coins.
This has a total cost of $99.98 / £79.96, significantly more than the full game’s price of $59.99 / £54.98.
A player wishing to buy a single Turtle costume at 750 Fighter Coins would have to buy a bundle of 1250, costing $23.99 / £18.98. It costs $100 to unlock all of Street Fighter 6’s TMNT content
It should be noted that these costumes aren’t new playable fighters – instead, they’re skins for the player’s avatar, who’s mainly used in the game’s World Tour mode.
In comparison, when the TMNT were added to Warner Bros‘ DC fighting game Injustice 2, the fighter pack cost $19.99 / £15.99 and contained all four Turtles as separate, fully-fledged fighters, as well as two extra fighters, Atom and Enchantress.
The Street Fighter 6 collaboration is designed to tie in with the release of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, the latest TMNT feature film, which is currently in cinemas.
It should be noted that these costumes aren’t new playable fighters – instead, they’re skins for the player’s avatar, who’s mainly used in the game’s World Tour mode.
In comparison, when the TMNT were added to Warner Bros‘ DC fighting game Injustice 2, the fighter pack cost $19.99 / £15.99 and contained all four Turtles as separate, fully-fledged fighters, as well as two extra fighters, Atom and Enchantress.
The Street Fighter 6 collaboration is designed to tie in with the release of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, the latest TMNT feature film, which is currently in cinemas.
You can make assumptions all you want but they're just that and you shouldn't be flaunting them as fact.
The fact is we don't know the details of the agreement between Capcom and Nickelodeon. There are also Turtles action figures where they are dressed like Street Fighter characters so the promotion goes in both directions.
For all we know these prices could have been set by Nickelodeon.
I'm not defending Capcom as much as saying don't jump to conclusions without concrete evidence. I think these are extremely poorly priced but I'm still hopeful that the Outfit 3 DLC for the playable cast will be reasonably priced (I'll probably eat those words though, it's modern Capcom.)
99.9 percent of licensing deals work this way, the ones who don't are cross collaboration (A lets B use a character, and B lets A use a character). Someone has an IP. Someone licenses that IP for their project. Licensee pays licenser for their property. I've worked in the game industry for 12 years, on games with multiple deals like this, that's how it works.
Sure Nickelodeon could have forced the prices, and yet Capcom still agreed to them... but that's typically not how this works because Nickelodeon isn't a game company so they would understand they don't have a fundamental understanding of the value of their property in a game market, and their goal is to make as much money as possible. Capcom's setting the prices thinking they'll earn the most money as possible from the licensee, and for their game. Even in the one off chance of Nickelodeon trying to dictate the price, I already said it but it's important to repeat... Capcom agreed, but that's almost definitely not happening.
You say you're not defending Capcom, but you're doing a great job of it in your comment.
But we do know how these deals work almost every other time... well I do. You seem to try to grasp at straws and make a theory thinking if it sounds plausible it's equally valid and thus probable. It's not.
I'm not making a theory, my only theory is to not jump to conclusions and make assumptions. If that's defending Capcom then so be it.
I'm angry about the Turtle costume prices too, I'm just not going to buy them.
All I'm saying is we have to wait until we see the prices for the character alts to really grab the pitchforks. The first paid DLC is cross promotional, there isn't enough data to extrapolate from to assume that the character costumes will also be overpriced.
And yes, I am saying that just because you work in the industry doesn't mean you should state something you can't possibly know without insider information as fact. Of course unless you secretly work at Capcom/Nickelodeon and don't wanna say publicly :)