Fighting game fans are making their own Street Fighter 6 TMNT skins

Capcom and Nickelodeon announced a Street Fighter 6 and TMNT collaboration at EVO 2023, but fans weren’t pleased with the price. Each skin in the fighting game costs $15, so getting the whole collection runs you as much as a copy of Street Fighter 6 – unless you make your own (thanks, Polygon).

Fans who didn’t feel like shelling out the price of a new game just for a skin set are using Street Fighter 6’s extensive character creation tools to just make their own.

Saved £15
by u/Nukem156 in StreetFighter

“Saved £15,” one user wrote on Reddit as a caption to their picture, showing the homemade TMNT skin standing next to the real thing. The likeness is pretty darn good as well, with face paint taking the place of the amphibian’s signature mask and other color splotches rounding out their accessories, bands, and the like.

“At 750 coins apiece, I’ll take the one on the left, a commenter said under another post on the Street Fighter 6 Reddit. 

You vs the guy she tells you not to worry about
by u/LosDanyos in StreetFighter

Capcom took a Diablo 4 approach to Street Fighter 6 by adding paid cosmetics to a premium game, and the currency’s pricing and cosmetics’ pricing don’t always match up. A TMNT skin costs 750 coins, which is about $15, but you can’t buy 750 coins outright. You can spend $12 on 610 coins and then another $5 for 210 or $23.99 for 1,250 coins. The problem with the higher denominations is that you’re never left with enough coins to spend on another high-priced item – such as a second TMNT skin.

Annoying as the scenario is, the right combination of popular cosmetics usually gets people to pay anyway. As other commenters pointed out, Dead by Daylight does the same thing, and the price of one skin in Overwatch 2 is about the cost of an indie game like Tunic.

Written by Josh Broadwell on behalf of GLHF