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EricHiggin on 28 April 2019
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SvennoJ said:
EricHiggin said:

Too bad as slow as the average American internet speeds are, Canada's are considerably worse. SAD edition has a much smaller market here. Hardware prices here are higher due to our lousy canuck bucks and surely would sell vastly more units at $299 or less.

Yeah I got lucky I guess. The pro was CAD 399 at release, same price as the ps4 at release. Then prices went up thanks to the dollar. So after buying the pro for 399, 599 for the xbox one x felt way too much. Plus here the base ps4 is now only CAD 20 less than at release, over 5 years later, thanks to the exchange rate.

Plus games went up from CAD 60 to CAD 80, with tax over 90 dollars. I'm pretty sure wages didn't go up 33% to match!

When I bought my PS4 1200 the dollar was still strong and I think PS4 was $349 msrp here and I paid around $269 I believe on BF and got the UCC and TLOU bundle. I can't help but chuckle when I see the PS4 prices now and realize how ridiculous it is that I was able to buy mine when I did for how much I did and now it's almost full launch price again. It paid to be a mid-early adopter here in Canada this gen.

Games have gone up no doubt, but they also have been dropping rather quickly. I picked up AC Origins only a couple months after launch for $40 when it was $80 at launch. Many other games, even blockbuster AAA, have been coming down to half price within 6 months time, during sales anyway. GOW was $30 on BF. That doesn't help all that much though with the hardware prices being where they are today. Cheap enough software doesn't really help sell expensive hardware, in relation to the U.S. right next door anyway.