Video games are now retailing at $80.00 new. If majority of Canadian gamers were to start purchasing used only, would prices lower or would we lose the ability to buy games. Because places like EBGames would close due to no longer getting game stock since new games wouldn't sell ?

When it comes to Nintendo games, dont sit around and wait for prices to drop.. Games that came out years ago for the Wii U is still $60 new, and some are over $60 used because you can't buy them new anymore.

Other consoles, can wait.

im not talking about Nintendo games those are cheap at like $40.00

Xbox one games are at $80

https://www.ebgames.ca/Xbox%20One/Games/719063/bladestorm-nightmare

Nintendo games are not cheap.

Mario Kart 8 has been out for over a year and its still $64.99 new.

Super Mario 3D World is $54.99 used and its been out since 2013.

New Super Mario Bros U has been out since 2012 and its $44.99 used.

Pikmin 3 has been out since 2013 and if you can buy it at $60+tax brand new, that is an awesome deal.

nintendo games never drop in price EVER

The canadian dollar is responsible for this situation.

Oil price is supposed to be responsible for this lower value of our dollar.

And you want to know the fun fact? The fuel price at the pump raised back almost to it's original price before the drop because of that drop.

It's all rotten.

Manufactures make things and retailers sell things that people buy. If you stop buying them they will stop making/selling them.

Good luck with that. Unfortunately more people in the world do not have the self control than do have.

This is a type of "mini-monopoly", but just enough not one to skirt by. What can one do to lower a games day one selling price? Not much. The Nintendo examples make me cringe. With some games being exclusive, the consumer loses choice, which is what monopolies want.

All we can do is bich and moan on message boards that publishers ever read and either svck it up, wait for a sale, or look to another console. Yea, I'm not a big fan of the video game industry lately

How dare you put down my hobby? I'm outraged! I'm.......oh who am I kidding, I feel the same way......

I really can not blame the companies, though. Us gamers are apparently so rich that millions of us buy almost every game that releases, and even some that do not

Theres no reason Nintendo shouldnt have a monopoly on their games. They make good games, like real good games. I may not always like the price.. but at the end of the day I like the games and dont regret the purchases.

Going out and buying Mass Effect, I know that game will drop in price, so that can wait. But Mario, not so much, maybe you might get a discount when the retailer has buy 2 games get 20% off.

Of all the games I have, the only non Nintendo games I've had non gamers go out of their way to play were Space Channel 5 and Jet Set Radio. And this is where the value in Nintendo games come in, they are enjoyed by gamers and non gamers. So, I can spend that $60 or $70 that I would have spent on a Nintendo game on some other form of entertainment for me to enjoy with a non gamers or gamer, or I could grab that Nintendo game.

I am Canadian. I stopped buying brand new. I don't buy brand new because of the high price. If it's worth it, then I buy it. Problem is, being burnt so many times buying brand new I have finally learnt my lesson and hardly ever buy brand new.

The exception is Bethesda games, The Elder Scrolls and Fallout. Those are Day One or pre-order buys for me. I always try and do my research now. I wait until I read reviews from normal gamers, not gamers or should I say reviewers who pretend to be gamers on gaming sites like IGN and Gamespot now. While I will still read their reviews, I consider them garbage reviews until I read people like us, reviews, especially on the Bethesda forums. I bought Witcher 3 after reading a lot of good reviews of the game.

So unless I see The Elder Scrolls or Fallout in the title, I don't buy right away no more.

After all the difference between $60 and $80 is not much. Reason I say that is I waited over 9 months for the price of Fallout 3 to drop. It never did, so I finally bought Fallout 3 at full price. While playing it, I felt like an [censored]. Why? For over 9 months I tried to save $20 and all I did was rob 9 months of playing an awesome game for what, $20.

Now that being said, $20 doesn't see much in this day and age, $60 sounds a lot closer to $50 which sound reasonable for a game and $80 sounds a lot more closer to $100 which seem ridiculous for a game. That being said, I am hoping to be able to buy the collector edition for Fallout 4 on Day One and will cost me about $200 since I am hoping there will be a hard back collector edition for Fallout 4 as well. Just love collecting those things.

I guess the only other time I buy on Day One is for my son. He just loves Call of Duty games, so that is money well spent for him.

Also, even if you can get aaaaaaaallll your buddies on the forums/internet to join in the little movement...

...that's still just a small fraction of the folks buying games.

every-time I see someone complaining about high priced games, i tell myself "good thing they weren't gaming in the late 80s and early 90s"..

the Legend of Zelda on the NES (classic game, still love it to this day, to bad my NES is busted until i can order replacement parts) cost our household a little over $50 dollars or so back in 1987 (at least i think it was around that).. now, adjust for inflation and that is the equivalent of slightly over $100..


gaming is far cheaper now than back in the day (god i feel old saying that ). they could have easily marked up games prices everytime the value of the dollar makes a shift.. in all honesty, I will gladly pay the $69.99 (which is what most games new and AAA games sold at EBGames shops in Canada cost, not sure where the OP is getting this $80 from, unless he is including sales tax, or lives in a place with increased shipping costs like Newfoundland (everything is more expensive in newfoundland, a pack of tic tacs is almost twice the price of the mainland)) over the price i paid for Zelda adjusted for market inflation..



and if everyone stopped buying games new, the market would crash.. I am not kidding, devs and publishers make pretty much nothing from used sales.. and how do you even expect used games to show up if no one buys them new? the whole concept of pre-owned is someone bought it before you..


in summary, no it would not work, all it would do is hurt the market..

I never buy a day one game anyway, I usually wait many months before buying a game I want to play when it comes out.

I'm a Yank and I am the same way. My exception to buying used are also Bethesda games. I get those on day 1, but everything else, I wait for a sale.

Hell, that $50 for Legend of Zelda for the NES is quite cheap compared to some of the SNES games back in the day. I remember plenty of games with up to an $80 price tag on them, I imagine that would make them about $130 or more adjusted for inflation, which is more then some Collectors Editions cost nowadays.

I find that PC gaming has saved me a ton of money. Not only are digital downloads a little cheaper than their physical counter parts, but you have amazing companies like Steam and GoG who run what I consider to be amazing sales. The discovery and accessibility of indie games like starbound is also great on the PC.

My best bet for you. Buy games with Replayability. So much that you can actually make it past a new release without craving to spend the full price.

Some of us rush out to buy games without even knowing if they'll run on our computers when they do release, and pay twice the regular price at that, because they come bundled with a glorified phone case made in some Chinese sweatshop which probably cost the publisher a dollar or two per unit.

P.T. Barnum would without a doubt be a leader in the gaming industry if he were still alive.

Could always wait for someone to make a 3d printer version

Of course, there's enough gamers now that a dozen games can sell "millions", with each person only buying 2-3 a year.

...and then there's the part where not every gamer is a jaded oldie hanging around at the barbershop internet forum grumbling about how bad things are compared to the "good old days". Some gamers still have enthusiasm for their hobby.

I used to be one of those gamers. I also had my stint as a "buy almost anything" gamer. I am so stinky now because these "buy everything" gamers run the show. Developers have no incentive to make better or even different games when everything sells. No incentive to push any envelopes, just stick with the tried and true.

I'd like to be enthusiastic again, but the system is broken.

For most of the PS3/360 era I'd only buy used or wait until the game dropped to the $20 price point on sale at amazon. The only exceptions were Skyrim and Dark Souls 2 being bought on launch day out of 25+ games.

Unless it's a game I'm dying to have, they aren't worth the $70-$80 price tag when they usually drop by $20 within a month of release and by $40 or more within a year. I did make an exception last week when amazon.ca had 30% off when you pre-ordered 3 games as an E3 promotion. Fallout 4, Dark Souls 3 and Final Fantasy VII remake came to $63 each with taxes and express shipping. Any other game over the next 2 years though will be bought on sale.

Games have almost always been $10-20 higher in Canada, it's just that for the last 3 or 4 years our dollar was at par with the yankee buck and the market adjusted and we quickly forgot. it's simple math, if our dollar is worth 80 cents US, games are going to cost us 20% more. Chances are slim that the Canadian dollar will get back to par any time soon, so get used to the increase!

This is how I feel as well. I was a buy everything gamer in my earlier years, and now I rarely buy games, especially brand new.
I too am also sour about how the industry works now, all you need is a Cool looking video game cover and you're guaranteed to sell well, and from a business standpoint, yes you are very successful.

Gaming went through one of these eras in the 80s, companies were churning out games that were identical to other games but with a new skin. It went on for a few years and I think it was finally the mass refunds from the ET game that got the industry back on track.
After that the quality of games went back up.
I feel that right now we're in the same sort of phase for the industry. We need a modern day iteration of the ET game I think, to get the game's quality in general to go back up.

I mean last year we had 3 assassins creed games within 365 days. I don't know how long these tactics will last until the masses get fed up with being sold the same thing over and over again.

That's pretty darn funny!