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TMNT: Turtles in Time Re-Shelled gets re-priced to 800 MS points

by Randy Nelson on Jul 31st 2009 1:15AM

Cowabunga! Bodacious! Other TMNT saying! Pardon the hoopla, but Ubisoft has confirmed to Joystiq that next week's XBLA "Summer of Arcade" release, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time Re-Shelled, will debut at 800

($10), 400

($5) less than the originally announced 1200

($15) price.

"We wanted to give something to the loyal TMNT fans in honor of the 25th anniversary," Ubisoft responded when asked about the last-minute change. Then again, dare we really question the generosity of a mega-publisher when it actually want us to shell out less for its games? (Oh, and for those eyeing the 800

[$10] rebate from MS for buying everything in the Summer of Arcade lineup? Well, it just got $5 cheaper to buy "everything.")

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in!]

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Tags: Beat-em-up, Microsoft, TMNT, TMNT-Turtles-in-Time-Re-Shelled, Ubisoft, Ubisoft-Singapore, XBLA, Xbox-360

Reader Comments (81)

Big Apple, 3AM

This went from a meh to a probably purchase now.

I love the turtles in time It was probably my favorite christmas present that christmas of 92. This brings back a lot of memories though it might take some getting used to for its new look.

Very good move, glad to see they listened to all the negative feedback. Even if it's a total remake, $15 was just a tad too much for something like this.

The price drop has me a little worried about this one, unless they agree it's too expensive at 1200.

Worried about its quality? I wouldn't be. It's obvious that they just heard the negative ****-storm from people who weren't going to pay $15 for 3D art on a game they can play right now on MAME.

Loyal TMNT fans indeed, now how about a release on the PS3?

It's definitely coming before the end of the year.

Sweet! It's gonna be a buy for me now. My gut feeling is that Ubisoft will probably sell way more copies now at this price point and make more money in the long run.

:0.... Mr Patcher?

I was going to get it regardless. I'll take the price drop and like it though, that's for sure.

"Wise man say never pay full price for redone classics!"

You made another funny!

Excellent! Every $5 helps.

I'll be definitely buying it now.

Went from possible to must buy. $10 bucks is the price point for this. Good move on scaling the price back.

Very nice job, Ubisoft. I'm actually kind of surprised MS let them do this.

It was Ubi that took the hit for this, not Microsoft.

Shadow Complex is the only game that should be $15 on the Summer of Arcade list.

Dose anybody know if they are going to give us unlimited continues.. Thats a good way to break he game.

After hearing about no drop-in/out and no original mode I was leaning away from this,but this goes a long way to swaying me back. Thanks to whoever is responsible.

i thought the drop-in/drop-out was confirmed?

Sold! $15 was a shaky maybe, but $10 is a purchase. Thanks, Ubi.

Is this like fuel prices? Start at $2 people are happy. Raise to $3.50 people are outraged. Lower to $2.90 people are ecstatic.

That said, I will now buy at $10.

I had a chance to play through 2 levels at Comic Con and I can tell you that it's not just an updated look they gave it, it plays COMPLETELY DIFFERENTLY now. And IT'S AMAZING. You can now attack 360 degrees (jump kicks and everything) which doesn't sound like it'd make that much difference, but it really, really, really does. It made the whole thing seemed way more fast paced, which you'd think would make the levels seem even shorter, but somehow didn't feel like the case.

At any rate, my buds and I couldn't wait to play it again. I'm so pumped!

This is good news, I'm probably going to buy it now.

Hell yes, The users have spoken! I was the 1st to complain about the summer of price gouging and looks like the bitching has paid off. Expect my purchase Ubisoft!

I was complaining last year.

they probably always meant to sell it for 10$ but made it appear as if it was gonna be 15$ so ppl would think its actually a bargain at 10$

TMNT Arcade @ 400pts > TMNT Turtles in Time @ 800pts

I already have the arcade game, I'll wait for a sale on Reshelled.

You'll be waiting a while, then.

So good. Now I'm definitely buying it.

Oh, my! It's like they actually read what people had to say about the 1200 MS points price tag, that's great! Totally looking forward to it now. And no need to wait for the reviews, there's always the demo, right?

How did they take a hit?

And my thought was that MS still has to approve the change. I could be wrong.

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