Byron Bluth
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So $85 with tax in Ontario. Fuck. Glad I have many games preordered with E3 deals.
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Canadian Gaming Deals and Discussion Thread 5: Much Ado Aboot Shipping
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Yeah that fucking sucks. I bought it today at Toys R Us with the CINEPLEXHOLIDAY coupon for $34.99. Just need to wait for the in-store pick up email, but the problem is the store closes in an hour and they said it could take 3 hours.
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Deleted member 126221
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I hope you get the email on time. The game looks so good but my backlog is immense right now so I guess it wasn't meant to be.
Kabuki Waq
Member
Man i am going to have to be really picky with the games i buy. No more B tier ubisoft games at full price.
I'd like to know if that is in Canadian dollars?
Adjust for inflation, Earthbound would have cost $129.84 today assuming that's a Canadian price listed.
nobodyshero
Banned
Yeah people tend to forget this. They also tend to forget inflation, which has lead to games being cheaper than they've ever been for years, despite the cost of making games skyrocketing. It makes little sense when you think about it.
narcosis219
Member
Oh shit, we actually moved all the Amiibo people to their own thread, thank god.
For those of you who are skipping the "deals" where a new release is 59.99, are you just going to give up gaming for 5 years or something?
For those of you who are skipping the "deals" where a new release is 59.99, are you just going to give up gaming for 5 years or something?
The word "deal" doesn't only apply to new releases.
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Deleted member 126221
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However, the gaming market expanded considerably since then and back then it didn't have competition from free / super-cheap games on iOS, Steam, etc.
That flyer is Canadian. SNES games in the US were never higher than 49.99 - 55.99, from what I can recall. I remember Target would have the SNES and Genesis with Contra III to play for hours.
nobodyshero
Banned
yeah, sure. but how many other products can you think of that since, say, 1993, have gotten cheaper despite inflation? i can think of maybe computers, but that's a special circumstance considering the prices of all those components have dropped drastically.
make no mistake, i don't want game prices to go up, but we've had it pretty good since the PS2 days.
Yeah, that flyer is from Consumers. Loved that place as a kid, the catalogues were full of stuff I wanted but never got, lol
N° 2048
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74.99
vinnygambini
Why are strippers at the U.N. bad when they're great at strip clubs???
Why are people speaking of 74.99$?
Is it an incoming price hike? ;.;
Is it an incoming price hike? ;.;
Check the last page, some screenshot of upcoming games on futureshop listed at 74.99
No one ever reads previous pages. That's one of the reasons these threads get so long, we always get the same question on every page, lol
I already wasn't buying games at 69.99, this just pushes me further down that path.
I'm happy to wait a few months for the price to drop, I no longer feel the need to own a game day one.
The one possible exception may be Persona 5, but I need to seriously think that over at these prices.
I'm happy to wait a few months for the price to drop, I no longer feel the need to own a game day one.
The one possible exception may be Persona 5, but I need to seriously think that over at these prices.
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Jotamide
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I'm pretty much exclusively playing on 3DS/Vita/PC these days and one of the factors is relatively cheaper games. Apart from UNIEL, MKX, and Dengeki Bunko Fighting Climax, I don't see myself getting a single PS3 game on release. Also, will probably renew PS+ and keep playing them monthly IGC offerings.
Persona 5 is worth so much more than $74.99
WrenchNinja
Member
Same. This is what I did the last time I recall the dollar was like this, so I stuck mostly with my DS and PS2.
As crazy at it sounds I swear I bought Secret of Mana used (complete in box tho) for C$80, but I guess that C$94 price for Illusion of Gaia supports that old memory.
They've delisted Persona 5 since forever ago. I think if the pre-orders were going to be affected, we would have known about it a long while back.
vinnygambini
Why are strippers at the U.N. bad when they're great at strip clubs???
hot damn. nooooo ;.;
why has our economy gone to shit
the pic doesn't load on my cell sorry
I'd be apt to agree with you. I'll probably cave
Either I didn't know or I forgot. I probably forgot.
They are losing money
They can still do the deal. The games will just be $60 now instead of $40.
Oh wait, for the ones already pre-ordered? Yeah, I guess they'd be losing money now.
I just hope Game Access isn't affected by this. Their subscription prices have been constant.
chrominance
Member
1. Steam backlog!
2. Backlog of console games I bought at well under $60 and haven't gotten to yet.
3. Even if I did somehow run out of backlog games, there will always be smaller digital download games and PS+/Games With Gold.
4. Even if that runs out, I can always wait a few months for retail console games to drop in price.
5. Even if THAT somehow runs out: yes, I would stop playing games until prices came back down. I rarely bought games even at $60.
Several own threads...
ComputerBlue
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Was thinking about buying BF:HL but there's no way I'm pre-ordering, or paying 74.99.
Even the Witcher 3 is going to be hard to purchase at that price.
Even the Witcher 3 is going to be hard to purchase at that price.
LordAmused
Member
I am not here to brag about PC Gaming, but games are definitely cheaper on PC.
You can get all the new releases for 44.99USD on Greenmangaming or even less on some obscure websites (you know them).
44.99USD = Around 58-59$.
That being said, The Witcher 3 is still 53.99CAD on Steam for preorder...I grabbed it yesterday.
You can get all the new releases for 44.99USD on Greenmangaming or even less on some obscure websites (you know them).
44.99USD = Around 58-59$.
That being said, The Witcher 3 is still 53.99CAD on Steam for preorder...I grabbed it yesterday.
A storm is coming
$59.99 in US
lol, fuck that.
Yup, thankfully I have most of the big 2015 PS4 games locked in at $40. After that I'm not sure what I'll do, probably just wait for deep price drops like I used to do.
Not the same thing but I'm guessing computer component prices will also experience the price bump if they haven't already
KnightHart
Member
Oh damn you're right.
Damn it. I was planning on doing a GPU and RAM upgrade this year as well.
PSN to the rescue, I guess. Charging me 69.99 for games but at least they don't charge taxes.
Eh, I've got a lot of stuff to play, I'm done focusing on the price hikes, companies will do what they please with the dollar in the way. Canadians get screwed, but whatever.
I should be able to trade and buy stuff for cheaper still. I am curious about how long this tunnel is going to last though. Maybe the extra $5 will be gone by next year at least.
I should be able to trade and buy stuff for cheaper still. I am curious about how long this tunnel is going to last though. Maybe the extra $5 will be gone by next year at least.
LordAmused
Member
Well if you plan on doing this year, do it now because I haven't seen a price increase in PC parts YET. I just updated mine 3 weeks ago.
ALLseeingEYE
Member
Here's the thing though, it's not that we've had it good, our wages have barely increased at all in the last 20 or so years, and even if the Canadian dollar continues to sink, our wages are not going up with those price increases.
These price increases could perhaps be justified if these were expensive physical products to produce, but they're not. Printing copies of games is no doubt intensely cheap for publishers. How tough would it be for publishers to simply decrease their Canadian wholesale prices? You could even argue that dev costs are still an issue, except, a lot of those games are developed in Canada, so that's not even always the case. In fact, games developed in Canada from a worldwide publisher are even cheaper, as once again, wages stay the same, but they are getting more bang for the american buck.
I've completely stopped buying new games these days, and I basically just buy used or cheap digitally. It just seems irresponsible to blow so much cash on a game when prices drop like rocks so quickly these days. I wonder how many others are in the same boat? $75 is a ton of money to pay for a single game, I can't easily imagine their sales continuing to be great.
Bestbuy's E3 deal makes Witcher 3 PC $34.99 =P
Get me a couple while you're at it
I'll paint the Kojipro logo on a big burlap sack and go "Fill 'er up!" MGSV for everyone!