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AnthonyW86 on 20 February 2015

As long as games keep bringing cinema quality and artistic games like The Order 1886 i think it's easily worth it.



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rolltide101x on 20 February 2015
Blood_Tears said:

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…
 

That is like the same price the U.S. pays..... 86 Candian dollars = 68.57 U.S. dollars.....

You will pay like 4$ more per game than Americans, not a big deal considering the market is way smaller. Europeans are the ones who are ripped off



binary solo on 20 February 2015

So there's no point in buying via the USA. But for US gamers buying games in Canada saved them money until this price increase. As all the major game retailers are US companies it is logical for them to maintain price parity on exchange rate. For this reason, if the exchange rate puts the CAD up significantly over the long term the Canada price for games should come down.



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vivster on 20 February 2015

Do those include tax?

Because European prices would be equal to 100CAD



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Acevil on 20 February 2015

Ya, I will personally be cutting back. Funny enough theater prices didn't go up, so I can just spend else where as well.

Pretty much I think my purchases will be Assassin Creed, Uncharted, Zelda, Xenoblade Chronicles X for day 1 purchases, and I might even knock off Assassin Creed unless I find a deal on it.



 

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Arcturus on 20 February 2015
vivster said:
Do those include tax?

Because European prices would be equal to 100CAD

Nope, the $75 price tag is before tax.

In Ontario, for example, the sales tax is 13%. So the total after tax would be close to $85.



Platina on 20 February 2015
vivster said:
Do those include tax?

Because European prices would be equal to 100CAD


No, without tax (since it would vary between provinces/territories

Tax could range from 5% -13%



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rolltide101x on 20 February 2015
Arcturus said:
vivster said:
Do those include tax?

Because European prices would be equal to 100CAD

Nope, the $75 price tag is before tax.

In Ontario, for example, the sales tax is 13%. So the total after tax would be close to $85.

According to the Post creator it would be 86 Candian dollars after Tax, that comes to 68.57 American Dollars or like 4$ more expensive. The Europeans are the ones who are overpriced not the Candians



Proxy-Pie on 20 February 2015

Almost matches the Israeli prices!



Arcturus on 20 February 2015

I just checked a some prices on the PSN store, and they are still $69.99 for new releases. The nice thing about purchasing digital titles from the PSN store is that they don't charge sales tax, so you can save close to $10 (at a 13% sales tax rate) by not having to pay the tax.