The Hoops You’ll Jump Through to Get 5 Bucks Back
Depending on how you view things, we may have seen the first blink regarding a Sonic 4 discount on XBOX Live Arcade today.
You’ll still have to pay the full 1200 points first, or $15, to buy the downloadable title to your XBOX 360. But a new promotion that runs through December 20th affords a 400 point rebate for your effort…so long as you purchase another select XBLA title, and purchase both using a special Arcade Game Offer Gamerpic.
There are more than a dozen other eligible titles, including platformers LIMBO and Super Meat Boy. Marvel vs. Capcom 2 and Battlefield 1943 are other candidates for the combo discount. You can read the full list at this link.
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meh, Sonic 4 was worth the $15 I already payed for it, even though it would have been nice to get a discount.
Sods, I already have Sonic 4 AND Super Meat Boy. But I guess I was never going to wait for either. I got Meat Boy when it was cheap anyway. I’ve had LIMBO and MVC2 for an age too. I’ll have a look but I doubt I’ll be tempted into two more games.
I wish ALL Video games were 15 bucks. Sonic 4 doesn’t need a discount, all the other games do.
Except that most other games lost a lot longer than two hours.
Kind of a misleading article here, since it’s about a refund/rebate you get after purchasing games. Sonic 4 isn’t discounted AT ALL. Not even “sort of”.
A rebate is considered a type of discount by most. A lot of the time, products will even be priced and listed as “$X, after rebate”. It’s a dirty scheme, sure, but on a technical level it still flies.
I will point out that there are some awesome games up for grabs there. Shadow Complex is one that everyone who’s a Metroidvania fan should pick up. If you’re looking for a second game to get the deal, I’d pick that one out of all the others.