Prices on games are ~20-30% higher than US and the current exchange rate is ~ 92 cents.

I am going to stop buying games until they stop ripping us off or special deals come up. No more day 1.

Aww dude you outta see the situation here. The retail price for games is 100AUD. I really don't think you guys can complain.

yeah its pretty sad. If you didn't have to pay for shipping you could get prototype (as an example for $30 dollars cheaper from the uk.

when you take into account your isolation, own ratings board, and high wages you should consider yourself lucky that your only paying the equivalent of $8 canadian more.

maybe it is because the market is only 1/10th of the US market at best?

Anyways, import from Amazon.com You should be able to buy your games there, and they are always under normal retail which should make up for any credit card currency conversion charges.

that is definatly a factor. some other likely contributing factors are the slightly higher minimum wage, and bilingual packaging.

We have bilingual packaging in NY too. Most games come with at minimum English/Spanish, but some even are trilingual and come with French.

Yeah I friggin hate that, I'm not paying $70 for a $60 game when the exchange rate is only 7.5 cents difference.

Yeah I know it's frustrating but you know it's not only games... And no one does anything about it. Damn people, all living in their own little bubble... >_>

I understand your situation.  Places such as EBgames or Futureshop & Bestbuy would usually sell it higher because they know people would shop there for games anyways. 

I suggest trying places you wouldnt normally shop for games such as grocery stores or smaller outlets where i've seen day1 prices of games going for 59.99$ like the US.  And sometimes time to time Walmart has random mad sales for a short time.  Recently Walmart had Killzone2 for 49.99 and COD4:MW GoY for 39.99.