Price difference between Canada and the U.S.

Some newer releases are selling for $65 instead of the previous $70. It still sucks, but it's a start.

Really, stores have absolutely no incentive to drop the price because we have no choice. The alternative is to drive to the US and buy games there, or order them from US stores online. Still have to pay shipping or gas either way, which amounts to at least $10 of effort anyway.

Price drops on consoles need to happen too, and fast. The PS3 is incredibly overpriced at almost every store, and still fetches $660CDN for some utterly bizarre reason.

I'm also waiting for Microsoft to alter the Canadian XBL store for Point pricing, since it's STILL $15.50 for 1000 points. I'm sorry, what? That's what it was set back at the console's launch when the Canadian dollar was prancing around at 70 cents or so, and other than sheer greed or chronic laziness I cannot imagine why we still have to pay one and a half times the going rate on points. I'm currently out, and I'd love Puzzle Quest this Wednesday, but I'm not buying any XBL points until I'm paying the same that Americans are.

Anyone know if the same issue exists for Nintendo's point system?

That's nothing

I'm actually shopping for an Onkyo TX-SR605 AV receiver. It is sold between 400$ and 450$ in the states. It is sold here at 700$.

That's incredible. Sadly online stores from USA don't ship AV receivers to Canada because evenwhile adding all the fees (shipping, duty, brokerage) i would still save around 150$.