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SomeStreet Fighter 6fans are expressing discontent with the outrageous pricing of the freshly-announced and releasedTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtlesskins. Launching in early June,Street Fighter 6kicked off what’s looking to be an excellent year for fighting games, withMortal Kombat 1in September andTekken 8also highly anticipated and rumored to release before the end of 2023.
In just over two short months since its early summer launch,Street Fighter 6has already set up several collaborations with other franchises. The lead up to the launch of Capcom’s ownExoprimalsaw a trailer for a mechanical version of Ryu, the face ofStreet Fighter,tobecome available in the dinosaur-slaying third-person shooter this Fall. Additionally, classicStreet Fightercharacters Chun-Li and Cammy, as well as Luke and Ryu, have joined the battle royale battleground ofPUBG. Most recently, as part of the annual fighting game event EVO,Street Fighter 6revealed its next DLC character A.K.I, as well as a collab with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles around the release of the new animatedMutant Mayhemmovie.
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While it’s nice to see games getting involved in more fun crossovers, fans ofStreet Fighter 6are growing upset at the cost of these fourTMNTskins. Twitter user UltimaShadowX pointed out that each individualTMNTcostume costs $15 each. If one were to want all four turtle costumes, they’d need to shell out a whopping $60, the cost ofStreet Fighter 6itself. This is especially upsetting when considering that these costumes are only for players' created avatarsfor use in World Tour modeor online Avatar Battles; players aren’t able to equip these costumes with the established cast ofStreet Fighter 6characters.
It would’ve made more sense for Capcom to bundle all fourTMNTcharacters into one package for $15. While still quite expensive for a set of four avatar costumes, this path wouldn’t have been as outrageous as making each one available individually for $15 a piece. This collab could’ve also just been a single turtle costume, with players being able to swap characters in the “change color” menu of World Tour clothing shops. While it’s doubtful that Capcom will chop the prices of theTMNTskins now, perhaps it’ll do so after thebuzz surrounding theMutant Mayhemmoviedies down a bit, though this seems unlikely.
Since this is the first time characters from another franchise are coming intoStreet Fighter 6, it’ll be interesting to see what the pricing will be for future collaborations with other popular franchises. From season passes to loot boxes and the current battle pass craze, monetization in gaming has been at the forefront of many serious conversations about the state of the industry for a while now. AsStreet Fighter 6’s post-launch plans steam aheadwith A.K.I coming in the Fall and at least two more DLC characters planned for early 2024, hopefully future avatar costumes won’t cost as much as the price of the game itself.
Street Fighter 6is available now on PC, PS4, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S.
