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hush404 on 08 July 2020
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SvennoJ said:
hush404 said:

As someone who rarely buys new games now because of the price, I just see that personal trend continuing. Games are already $69.99/$79.99 here in Canada and this just means we jump to $79.99/89.99. After tax, we're looking at over $100 per title. The list of games that are worth that, in my eyes, is very small.

Example from Amazon:

Yep, the upcoming Paper Mario is also listed at 79.99.
I hope it will 'only' go up to 89.99 next gen, however $70 translates to CAD 95 nowadays :/

I've been buying far fewer new games this gen as well. Start of this gen games were still CAD 54.99 or 59.99

Yeah, that's true, I wasn't thinking it would go up more. It seems to follow the trend of $10 over that of the US price and has for a while. I don't recall seeing an odd prices like $77.99 to make up for the difference in the dollar. I bought Horizon Zero Dawn at full price (actually got the CE for that) but think that's likely the last game I bought on release at full asking. I mean... I bought the SpongeBob game that just came out but it was $29.99 on release, so I was fine with that.  I took advantage of a black Friday sale price on a Cyberpunk 2077 pre-order and got in for $54.99 which Im super happy with (and tbh, CP2077 is likely a game I would pay full price for anyways).

V-r0cK said:
hush404 said:

As someone who rarely buys new games now because of the price, I just see that personal trend continuing. Games are already $69.99/$79.99 here in Canada and this just means we jump to $79.99/89.99. After tax, we're looking at over $100 per title. The list of games that are worth that, in my eyes, is very small.

Example from Amazon:

Well im not sure how old you are so not sure if you remembered when some SNES games were +$100 CAD, and that was like during mid 90s, which would be around $150 CAD now with inflation.  So paying $100 a game again wouldn't be surprising.  But it still sucks big times.

Canadians had it good last gen (PS3/360) as our dollar was better and our systems/games were the same price amount as the US.

Oh wow, that is incredibly interesting. I would have been ehh, something like 8-10 back when I got my first SNES (around 5 or 6 when the system launched) and thus have no memory of buying SNES games. We likely got games as gifts or picked em up second hand.