Mike Works
Member
I'd seriously consider holding off on buying an XB1 before E3. After today's NPD I'd be shocked if the price doesn't get dropped now.
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Canadian Gaming Deals and Discussion Thread 4: That $70s Show
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firehawk12
Subete no aware
Wow, BB has Hakuoki for the pre-inflated price. Sweet.
Maximus.
Member
Yup can't preorder anything either :/
Cloud Strife
Member
Would be interesting to see as the PS4 is already 449.99.
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qizah
Unconfirmed Member
Best Buy doesn't charge you until the games have shipped right?
I'm not so sure that they'll drop the price here in Canada. They're already losing money on the exchange rate by keeping the price at $500(vs raising the price).
Yes, that's correct. That's pretty much every retailers here.
Never heard of this until now. Seems pretty interesting. How is the PSP or 3ds one?
kirby?
Yeah, not really bothered about Kirby. And I've got Mario Kart 8 and Watch_Dogs PS4 preordered from last E3.
Mike Works
Member
If they drop it $100 in the States, which is what I'd expect, I think you'd still see at least a $50 price drop in Canada.
Same thing for me as well. Can it be because of web traffic? Just need to get The Last Guardian preorder in and I'm good. So strange Wii U preorders aren't apart of this.
EDIT:
Just saw Final Fantasy XV (formerly versus 13). Strangely enough I just got that preorder in. BB, wtf is going on?
ah fair enough. there's also Tomodachi Life but as I said above the add to cart button is greyed out at the moment. hopefully that'll change before the promo ends...
firehawk12
Subete no aware
It's very much an otome VN, so it really depends on whether that's for you or not. I bought both previous versions but didn't play the 3ds one yet. The PSP one was good though.
Ever since DanganRonpa, I've been searching for new visual novels to try. The more variety the better. Just ordered the PSP one from Amazon. Also pre-ordered the PS3 version from BB.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
I actually don't know if the PS3 version contains the PSP content as well as extras. It might be worth checking unless you want both versions.
You could always buy Sweet Fuse as well.
Crap, I thought they were 2 completely different games. Thanks for letting me know. Yeah, Sweet Fuse looks pretty interesting too.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Aksys seems to be doing its best to translate all the ports of the game. lol
Seriously. As a broke student I'm pretty much done with games. Paying nearly $80 isn't gonna happen.
Maximus.
Member
Yea I preordered a couple PS4 games (so funny how its back to the old pre-inflation prices after the discount), but it sucks to see that Wii U games are not apart of this deal.
So Origin is having "Gigabytes of Deals" right now. I'm tempted to pick up Sim City, since I do like city builders, and it's only twenty bucks for a pack that contains the game and the expansion. I also think it might be in CAD too, although I'm not sure. (I don't remember if I was charged in CAD or USD when I bought Titalfall)
https://www.origin.com/en-ca/store/deals/sale/gigabytes-deals
https://www.origin.com/en-ca/store/deals/sale/gigabytes-deals
Eh, after today's NPD results, they'll need to eat a greater loss in a sense. I'm guessing at least a $20-$50 price drop for Canada. At least to match the PS4. It's funny how Best Buy and Future Shop salespapers don't show the PS4 price now at $449. If they don't drop price, at least expect new bundles with more packed games in for sure (Forza, Ryse digital codes) etc.
So tempting. I almost got SimCity but I know I'll never get around to playing it.
Dead Space is also free right now on Origin.
https://www.origin.com/en-ca/store/on-the-house-ANW.html
ALSO, I can confirm that Origin charges CAD and those prices listed on the "Gigabytes of Deals" are in CAD.
https://www.origin.com/en-ca/store/on-the-house-ANW.html
ALSO, I can confirm that Origin charges CAD and those prices listed on the "Gigabytes of Deals" are in CAD.
Hmmmm. The dlc's are tempting. I wonder what should I get.
chrominance
Member
Oh you guys. You're not seriously considering picking up SIMCITY, are you? Or should I say, SimTown? The single biggest disappointment of 2013 for me.
That said, maybe for $20 it won't seem as awful. But seriously, I can't in good conscience allow all this talk of people considering SimCity without at least trying to warn you all!
That said, maybe for $20 it won't seem as awful. But seriously, I can't in good conscience allow all this talk of people considering SimCity without at least trying to warn you all!
oreomunsta
Banned
How likely do you guys think is the possibility of better deals from BB at E3? I'm not familiar with the E3 pre-order bonanza they hold. Only game worth preordering at BB online (during the current sale, I should add) for me would be MK8 since that's a May release, but I'm curious about future PS4 games
I kind of want to buy it, as I don't mind the more casual approach myself. I don't really want to support EA though considering eveything else they did with the game.
citroen-e402
Member
Hello everyone, I was wondering about Futureshops exchange policy. I bought Call of Duty Ghosts last year, and now I am getting disc read errors. Is it possible to exchange my copy with another one?
moyashimon
Member
I don't think Futureshop can do anything if it's like several months after you bought it from them. If it died within their standard return policy thing you could probably have it replaced... but that late...
I don't know, you could try and contact the publisher or something....
chrominance
Member
It's not so much that it's more casual, it's that SimCity's simulation layer was fundamentally reworked to theoretically give you the ability to zoom all the way down to the individual sim level and see what each of your citizens is up to (which is great!). The problem is this is extremely expensive computationally, and to compensate Maxis scaled down the game significantly to suit. So cities must be built inside a 2km x 2km square (or the equivalent of SimCity 4's medium maps, if I remember correctly), and anything larger is impossible.
Also, you'll run into weird issues with supply and demand--things like sims complaining there's no schools when there's a school right across the street, or sims not finding any place to shop despite having commercial strips everywhere. At least some of these issues seem to be due, in part, to a bizarre decision to make it so sims have no permanent homes, jobs or shops--they simply find the closest suitable job when they wake up, and at night they find the closest suitable home to sleep in. All your sims are transients with no history, only an everlasting present. This is a great illustration of how weird the system is. No one's come out and said it, of course, but this seems like another way the simulation was simplified in order to get it to run reasonably well on modern computers.
The joke, of course, is that SimCity only ever uses a single core of your CPU, presumably so it would run well on old computers. Which is fine, but when the minimum spec has huge impacts on the game design, you wonder if all the trouble was worth it.
All that said: I spent a good 20 hours playing SimCity at launch, even with all the network issues (which are another story, sheesh), and I don't remember having an awful time. It's just that once you grow your cities to a certain point, you have to optimize things so much and really rebuild large portions of your city to squeeze as much as you can out of your small land plot. And that's fine if you're the type who's always played SimCity that way, but I haven't. Sure, I like to optimize police station placement and whatnot, but I also like to build different types of cities (this one's an agricultural outpost! this one's more suburban! this one's the downtown core!) and have them grow together and not always focus on growth at the expense of everything else. In SimCity, if you don't optimize for growth and revenue, you will get to a point very quickly where there's nothing else to build unless you start another city in the region and play that as well. And then very quickly that city starts to experience problems until eventually you have to build a third city to give jobs, resources, whatever to the first two. And so on and so forth. It's a never-ending cycle and your reward is maybe you get one city full of skyscrapers--a 2km x 2km plot of extremely high density, surrounded by empty greenfields.
SimCity.
Byron Bluth
Banned
Fuck this Best Buy deal, pretty much all the worthwhile pre orders are sold out. How do you sell out of preorders for just regular editions of games?
Seems to me they only put a limited number of each to preorder. Lame.
Seems to me they only put a limited number of each to preorder. Lame.
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qizah
Unconfirmed Member
I don't know if this was posted or not, but Watch_Dogs is $49.49 for PS4 on Amazon Canada.
I just pre-ordered it to guarantee the price.
Just realized I wrote Watch_Dog without the s. lul.
I just pre-ordered it to guarantee the price.
Just realized I wrote Watch_Dog without the s. lul.
Thanks man I wasn't really going to get this but for that price what the fuck lets give it a try
Great deal... I just wish there was good deals for the pc version too.
Wait. Really? Which ones?
Sweet. Just preordered. Better than whats offered at BB. I hope they do the same for final fantasy xv. I've been wanting that one since it was announced on the PS3.
HubbaBubba
Member
It's the exact same deal Bestbuy is currently offering.
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Deleted member 126221
Unconfirmed Member
There's a "trade 1 game and get Kirby/Mario Golf free" promo at EBgames. I think the game must be worth $15 or more in their system however.
I think I'll trade my PS3 version of GTA5 (should be worth more than $15... I hope!), and re-buy the game when the super-deluxe-all-DLCs-and-60fps version will be out on PS4. It's more or less confirmed at this point, right?
I think I'll trade my PS3 version of GTA5 (should be worth more than $15... I hope!), and re-buy the game when the super-deluxe-all-DLCs-and-60fps version will be out on PS4. It's more or less confirmed at this point, right?
hmm apparently TLOU is worth $15 at EB (as of a few days ago). I think I'm gonna do it then, for Kirby.