I wouldn't be able to survive on that budget, I just dropped CAD 112 (incl tax) for a Farpoint bundle. Part of that is HW though :)

I've been getting better though, 3 years ago I spend over CAD 1000 (net after trade ins) on games that year, that was when the exchange rate was on par with the US. Last year was about half and would have been less if it wasn't for all the digital psvr games I bought. Partly because of all the cheap games available now we're 3 years into the current gen and partly because I realized I bought far more than I could play. Paying CAD 80 nowadays for a game I'm not immediately going to play is stupid nowadays. Games depreciate in value faster than anything else, unless it's made by Nintendo.

Actually I could probably survive for another 3 years without buying any more games. Shameful backlog. And then there's the ps+ backlog, add to library for later... Sony might call the second half of a gen the harvest period, for me it's the other way around. Spending less and less on games until the next gen starts again.

Btw why do Nintendo games hold their value better? Is it because Nintendo doesn't do big sales or doesn't print tons of copies for stores to discount to get through stock. Or just because people are willing to pay higher prices for Nintendo games?
Twilight princess for the Wii is still CAD 50 new here. TLG is already down to CAD 40 new.
Super smash bros Wii U is still CAD 60 new. Uncharted 4 already down to CAD 45 new.

Popular Nintendo titles tend to be "evergreen," meaning that they maintain a decent level of sales months and even years after release.  This was especially true of Wii and DS games.  Most $60 games create a sense of urgency to buy them right away, and the dedicated fans or gamers will do so.  As a result sales for those titles can be frontloaded, meaning that most people who will want to buy them, go out and buy them at launch or shortly after.  If they choose not to buy them early, this audience is often specifically waiting for a price cut or used sales.  Thus, it might only be a little while before there's not a potentially large audience left buying games at full price.  This is especially true of franchises that release a new entry every year.  On the other hand Nintendo finds an audience that doesn't necessarily have that sense of urgency--when a parent is buying Mario Kart for their kid, for example, they buy the one for the latest system(or the system they already have) without caring whether it was released this year or three years ago.  So yeah, the people who buy Nintendo are willing to pay higher prices for Nintendo even years after the fact, while the audiences for other games tend not to be.

That's my take on it anyways, as a Nintendo fan who doesn't blink at buying a game full price years after release if I think I'll like it.  Not every Nintendo game is an evergreen...The Wonderful 101 got discounted pretty quick, from what I remember.  But when they have a hit it tends to stay a hit.

I would prefer if big Switch games were in between 3DS and Wii U prices.. so around $60 CAD

Nintendo games barely drop in price so they always remain really high :/

Price is subjective, depends how much available cash people have.

yep, thats why I voted 20, its boxed, cardrdige, sure make it a little more expensive but the current price is wow lol, 25 would be the absolute most I would concider "acceptable"

They arent, many libabries are even offering console games to be rented for free until youre 19 just like books and movies etc.