In surfing around the future shop web site I happened to notice a price hike for certain games of $74.99. I know game prices were raised just last year to $69.99 in Canada and from the looks of it, it’s happening again. Taxes in, it will cost myself a little over 86 dollars for a new release game here in Nova Scotia. Here’s just a handful of games that have been adjusted up thus far.
http://www.futureshop.ca/en-CA/product/the-elder-scrolls-online-tamriel-unlimited-playstation-4/10255433.aspx?path=f3114d3b8fb38387caacc8c1909627fben02
http://www.futureshop.ca/en-CA/product/tecmo-toukiden-kiwami-playstation-4-040198002677/10361957.aspx?path=5e5ab74d5f08ddc62e16ae8d46b03300en02
http://www.futureshop.ca/en-CA/product/metal-gear-solid-v-the-phantom-pain-playstation-4/10255427.aspx?path=b6356534b7de8d2d4ac5e7ea487b2ba8en02
http://www.futureshop.ca/en-CA/product/namco-ride-xbox-one-22007/10362231.aspx?path=96cf4889b409693afc88073aeebf0bd2en02
http://www.futureshop.ca/en-CA/product/konami-metal-gear-solid-v-the-phantom-pain-xbox-one-metal-gear-solid-v/10255623.aspx?path=0763895c97901603d28abe1ea82a2e4fen02
I presume Best Buy Canada is doing the same since they own Future Shop. EB Games (owned by Gamestop) has also done the same with some of the upcoming games.
https://www.ebgames.ca/Xbox%20One/Games/719063/bladestorm-nightmare
https://www.ebgames.ca/Xbox%20One/Games/715326/doom-bilingual
In doing a quick google search on it, there was a user on reddit who mentioned this 3 days ago as well.
https://www.reddit.com/r/PS4/comments/2w6thl/canada_prices_of_games_possibly_going_up_friend/
As of writing this, Amazon.ca has yet to raise the price on any up coming games so if you’re Canadian and looking to pre-order any upcoming PS4/X1 titles, you may want to go through Amazon for the time being. Hard times for the Canadian gamer…