Just like the Mass Effect 3 and SSX deals seen on Amazon.ca, another seller over there has cut the price of a new item. This time, it is the Playstation Vita Wi-Fi System.
"Well once again Amazon is in the Uncharted 4 headlines as Amazon Canada has shipped out copies of the game early to customers."
Looks like these have actually been shipped this time compared to the original Amazon shipment rumor last week.
GAME UK have shipped my copy today. But I think they've timed it to arrive on launch day. Here's hoping I get it early though :)
Game always time it to arrive launch I'm pissed off at Sony apparently places like simplygames aren't allowed stock till Monday ffs.
What’s the most puzzling about this jump in Canadian video games prices is the fact that the Canadian Dollar has been rebounding. The CAD was at $0.795 to the USD the day we found out games would start to cost $75, on February 23, 2015. Just over 8 weeks later, the CAD now sits at $0.831 to the USD, meaning the Canadian Dollar actually improved by roughly 4.5% since. Obviously, these decisions for the Market Suggested Retail Price don’t happen on a day-to-day basis, but the fact remains that Activision and EA are setting the scene for other publishers to mark up their games to these absurd prices once more holiday games are announced.
Canadian Dollar is tied to oil prices.. they go up, our dollar goes with it.
but this is ridiculous.
Sony did the same thing with the PS4, claiming that it was due to the weakening dollar that they had to charge $50 more for their console. Strangely enough, they didn't raise the price of their Vita to go along with that theory. And MS or Nintendo didn't raise the price of their consoles either.
But now in some cases we are paying $20 more for the same game.
Maybe they're testing Canadian market with the price increase to see how it affects sells. Then they will increase the price in the NA.
I hope that not the case.
me neither, that would be awful.
Funny thing is, the Canadian dollar will bounce back near or at par within the year probably and retailers will still continue to charge the same prices.. :P
People need to wake up to the fact that its the central banks that are printing money out of thin air and keeping interest rates at 0% devaluing all currencies.
This reckless behavior is causing prices of just about everything to go up, their excuse is that they want inflation. While they arent willing to admit true inflation thats really hurting the public, its an indirect tax on everyone.
I think Canada might be a test case, it might not be long before there is a price hike in the US.
@neonridr:
"And MS or Nintendo didn't raise the price of their consoles either."
though the price of the console hasn't changed since the exchange rate change, the price of games have.
it's one of the main reasons why i pretty much just purchase digital now - in the PS store, at least, there's no taxes. and to my knowledge, it's the same in the XBL marketplace.
"Funny thing is, the Canadian dollar will bounce back near or at par within the year probably and retailers will still continue to charge the same prices.. :P"
yeah, that's the horrible thing about all of this.
It's completely understandable for where our dollar is. 90 cents has been pretty typical but sub-80 leaves a huge disparity between our prices and American prices. It sucks though because it's not like we are getting paid more or anything is happening to compensate for said increases.
At those who talk about a bounce back...just no. Not for awhile at least. Maybe in 2017. The abundance of oil going around now has kind of screwed Canada since it was a huge source of profit in Alberta. I don't see things evening out for a few years at least. So the price changes are justified though they really suck. No other way to put it.
I recommend googling Canada game deals. It's a Twitter account/website that keeps tabs on deals at various retailers. I got an uncharted 4 pre-order for like 53 bucks thanks to it.
Sadly they keep the digital prices on par with retail. At least for Battlefront, it is also prices a 79.99 on Origin.
Worst thing is that the right thing to do would be to stop buying games a full price but I probably will probably preorder Battlefront :(
Me an EA are in a unhealthy relationship I can't seem to be able to get out...
Still says $60 for Battlefront for me on Orign, but that might be because of my VPN.
80$canadian=66US currently so you are paying a whopping 6 dollars more than Americans WAHHHHHHHH WAHHH
I know my math, yeah if it was calculus or something I wouldn't know it but seriously get your head on straight before you accuse someone of not knowing elementary level math.
The entitlement of gamers is really ridiculous lately. Games COST money to make, the cost has risen massively, yet the price has fallen instead of raised. I remember Sega Genesis games costing 100$US back when I was a kid, yet kids nowadays complain that their 100million dollar game costs them even just 60 (or 66).
You can't just dismiss the difference due to relativity. No matter how you put it Canadians are now paying 20 dollars more per game plus extra because of higher taxes. It's not like it suddenly becomes easier to make the money because it's worth less on a global scale. Our wages are the same. We are just now paying 33% more per new game. Kind of a big deal.
Once again I recommend Canada game deals to people. It seems GoW 3 remastered is now down to 40 on a few sites.
So you're aware you're wrong.
It's not entitlement at all either. When the canadian dollar was significantly more than the US dollar, we still paid as much as you guys. This isn't even including sales tax, which is 15% in most provinces.
But hey it's only $6 right? But hey I can just buy used games, I mean to a major corporation it's only $60 right? (minus whatever cut the retailer gets). I mean you can argue the company deserves the money, but I can argue they are entitled. Grow up, and learn economics. Sometimes charging more because it's possible to is actually gonna hurt more than anything.
Excellent news for Canada gamers out there, there is a special promotion run by Amazon Canada that will get you awesome discounts of 30% when you pre-order three titles of more on major games pre-orders for all major consoles (PS4, XBOX ONE, PC, PS3, XBOX360). Newly announced games are also covered. There’s also the Price Protection Guarantee that will get you the best price if the price drops within the release timeframe.
Just a heads up, titles are already discounted by 15% considering prices of next-gen have jumped from 59.99$ to 69.99$, on top of that you get the 30% off, better deal than the BestBuy, FutureShop one.
i did the bestbuy deal, its 21$ and amazon didnt have all the games i wanted so i preordered
TLOU
BF:Hardline
Driveclub
GTAV
I got all thou's games and more for 58 dollars after taxes on Amazon.ca (except for GTA 5 on PS4, I got that for 68)
Some games I got for 48 after taxes (Destiny, Evil Within)
It doesn't seem to be working for me for some reason.
It's not giving the additional discount.
Did you get the 30% off? Just add three titles and it should add the discount
o.o .............. runs to amazon.ca
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damn it, not from amazon themselves
i have a non activated 3g on there for sale for 250. :)
Ummm great deal.... But it's not sold from Amazon direct. I suspect it might be opened products or refurbished goods.