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PlayStation 4 price increased $50 in "The Source" in Canada – Rumor

Sony has increased the price of the PlayStation 4 and 3 last week in Chile $90 USD and Sony blamed the market conditions on this, Today the price increased in Canada too $50

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KrisButtar3694d ago

The price may go up at other locations because our games prices went up not to long ago and maybe the consoles will follow suit.

zeal0us3693d ago

Possibly something to do with the exchange rate. Before Canadians were paying the equivalent of ~$359 and now they are paying ~$404.

WatDoesTheStarFoxSay3693d ago

I'm skeptical too, considering I bought a PS4 on Amazon yesterday for $277.

Section83692d ago

Why are you skeptical when the $50 price rise was officially announced? Also here in Canada PS3 games went up $5 and PS4 games went up $10. What a bunch of crap. And they wonder why people play pc games instead.

ShaunCameron3693d ago

And in Quebec, if do decide to buy one, I have to pay Environment Handling Fees on top of that. Well that's the case for any electronic hardware.

Paulie_gualtieri3693d ago

The source, formerly known as radioshack, is actually still in business? lol.I haven't seen a store in years

adorie3693d ago

Just recently closed about 1/3 of their stores in the U.S.

gprime3693d ago

They're still around, but their prices are generally terrible. Their primary purpose now is to peddle Bell contracts and sell overpriced merchandise to people who don't know better. Even if the source is charging $449, I wouldn't assume that's going to become the standard price.

Kribwalker3693d ago

It has gone up, saw it in the flyer last night, surprisingly PS4 was missing in the best buy and future shop flyers as well

plasticidolatry3693d ago

Not a surprise, next gen games already went up from $60 to $70 in Canada. USD to CDN exchange rates are to blame.

tanookisuit3693d ago

I can vouch for that... just saw MLB 14 for $69.99 (PS4 version).

Also, no offense to the employees, but The Source is garbage. They sell a lot of no-name brand junk. And they have ancient games at full price!

Pandamobile3693d ago

...and this is why I stick to PC games. $70 for a game is pretty ridiculous.

DCfan3693d ago

Game prices do go down.
I never buy anything at 60$, i save a little and get multiple game for about the same price even less on multiple consoles.

PeaSFor3693d ago (Edited 3693d ago )

being a game enthusiast, i couldnt simply "stick to PC games", that said i also own a gaming rig but without my consoles....how the hell would i have played GTAV or TLOU?

Omni gamers ftw.

ShaunCameron3693d ago (Edited 3693d ago )

The last time I seen a game priced at $69.99 was 2011. And that was the Mortal Kombat reboot.

JasonKCK3692d ago

A PC gamer could save enough on games alone to buy a PS4 and X1.

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SuperBlur3693d ago

if USD to CDN exchange rates was to be blamed here , they would up the price on ps3/360 games too.. would they not ?

Anon19743693d ago (Edited 3693d ago )

I didn't even realize that The Source sold games, until I saw them on http://www.nowinstock.net/c...

Managed to snag a PS4 a few weeks back for a brief window they made them available on The Source's website and couldn't believe my luck. Actually called them a day later because I doubted they really had any but a couple of days later my PS4 arrived. :)

That's the thing about Canada. They're always quick to raise prices when our dollar is weaker against the US dollar, but take their damned sweet time lowering prices when our dollar is up. I don't see game prices going up yet though. Usually those jump up first.

kneon3693d ago

I guess it's a good thing I preordered 11 ps4 games last year @ $40 each. It will be a while before I need to buy any other games.

ziggurcat3693d ago

And yet when our dollar was at $0.69, we weren't paying extra for games. It's a poor excuse of a cash grab if you ask me. It's made me consider going digital from the PS store until prices go back to normal.

Kribwalker3692d ago

I remember when the xbox 360 and ps3 launched in canada. 360 was $499 and ps3 was $699. That's why I didn't have a problem paying $499 for Xbox one, it wasn't any different then we are use to up here

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Bethesda Needs to Reduce the Gaps Between New Fallout and Elder Scrolls Releases

Waiting a decade for new instalments in franchises as massive as Fallout and Elder Scrolls feels like a waste.

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-Foxtrot5h ago

Microsoft have Obsidian but I feel it's Bethesda who just don't want to play ball as they've always said they want to do it themselves.

Once MS bought Zenimax in 2020 they should have put the Outer Worlds 2 on the back burner, allow Bethesda to finish off its own Space RPG with Starfield (despite totally different tone why have two in your first party portfolio with two developers who's gameplay is a tad similar) and got Obsidian for one of their projects to make a spiritual successor to New Vegas.

When the Elder Scrolls VI is finished Bethesda can then onto the main numbered Fallout 5 themselves.

The Outer Worlds 2 started development in 2019 so putting it on the back burner wouldn't have been the end of the world, they'd have always come back to it once Fallout was done and it would have been nicely spaced out from Starfields release once they had most likely stopped supporting it and all the expansions were released.

If they did this back in 2020 when they bought Zenimax and the game had a good, steady 4 - 5 years development, you might have seen it release in 2025.

We are literally going to be waiting until 2030 at the very earliest for Fallout 5 and all they seem bothered about is pushing Fallout 76.

RaidenBlack3h ago(Edited 3h ago)

Its not just only Todd not playing ball.
Obsidian have made a name for themselves in delivering stellar RPGs, but most famous once have always been sequels/spin-offs to borrowed IPs like KOTOR 2, Neverwinter Nights 2, Fallout: New Vegas, Stick of Truth etc.
Obsidian wants to invest more in their own original IPs like Outer Worlds or Pillars of Eternity with Avowed.
Similar to what Bluepoint & inXile wants to do or Kojima is doing (i.e not involving anymore in Konami's IPs).
So yea, even if New Vegas has the most votes from 3D Fallout fans, Obsidian just wants to do their own thing, like any aspiring dev studio and MS is likely currently respecting that.
But a future Fallout game from Obsidian will surely happen. Founder Feargus Urquhart has already stated an year ago that they're eager to make a new Fallout game with Bethesda, New Vegas 2 or otherwise. Urquhart was the director of the very first 1995's Fallout game after all.
And don't forget Brian Fargo and his studio inXile, as Brian Fargo was the director of Fallout's 1988 predecessor: Wasteland

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Star Wars Jedi: Survivor Is Now Available Via EA Play In Some Regions

EA and Respawn Entertainment's action adventure game, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, is now available to EA Play subscribers in some regions.

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