Canadian games get a unified $5 bump

Canadian games get a unified $5 bump

If you were planning to buy a load of games in Canada lately, you would have been better off doing it a few days ago, as pricing for all new titles looks to have jumped $5 across the board.

Spotted by HardcoreGamer, this bit of news isn't exactly likely to delight Canadian fans as it comes just a few months after the average game price was increased to $70 CAD ($56 USD according to Google) and it's not like everyone's wages have gone up in kind.

Still, it's probably 'fair' in a global sense, since this brings Canadian pricing in line with other parts of the world and the UK still gets the short end of the stick far more often than either the US or Canada, with pricing here often reaching £40 for digital download games, bumping us to the equivalent of over $60 per title.

If we're talking getting shafted though, Australia still takes the biscuit, since it doesn't even get half the games we do with its over sensitive rating boards and lobby groups.

And it has to pirate everything because according to most movie studios and TV companies, Australia should have to pay far more for everything just because.