| tak13 said: http://www.vg247.com/2015/02/27/canadian-new-game-prices-jump-to-75/ http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/canadians-suffer-video-game-rrp-increase/0145918 :( That's the reason why!:P |
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Scisca said: Games in Poland cost 249-299, do you think it's brutal as well? It's just a different currency with a changing exchange rate, so it's totally normal. A Canadian dollar isn't worth as much as an American one. It would be unfair if they had games at $60, cause they'd be getting games cheaper than other nations. At this point it is the same price, so I can't see what the fuss is all about. Once Canada gets the loonie back to its previous level, the prices will fall down. |
I agree with you about the Canadian Dollar, but you can't really compare the Canada/US situation with that of other nations outside North America.
The relationship between Canada and the US is unique. Canada and the US share a lot besides their large land mass border. Same language and familiar distribution channels being big ones. Canada is the USA's #1 largest trading partner with a great deal of business going both ways across the 49th parallel. - http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/statistics/highlights/top/top1501yr.html
In the end the two have a close relationship when it comes to the retail business too and you can't really compare it to countries outside North America that have more barriers.
Nintendo of Canada was also established a fairly short time after Nintendo of America. Partly due to Minoru Arakawa (Yamauchi's son in-law) being familiar with Canada, having moved to Vancouver to work for a Japanese company before he started working for Nintendo. Nintendo also decided to make its American Headquarters in Redmond, WA - which is a very short distance from Nintendo of Canada's Headquarters in Vancouver, BC.
So both of these branches of Nintendo are older and well established.
