Canadian Boxing Week Video Game Sales Hub

We thought it only fair that, since we guided our American readers through some of Black Friday's best game sales, we would guide our readers from the north to video game savings! Canada's biggest shopping day of the season is December 26, referred to as Boxing Day. As stores attempt to fight their way out of the "red," massive discounts are applied to everything from video games to cars. Boxing Day sales have now become Boxing Week Events, and this year is no exception.

We've scoured the Boxing Day/Week circulars of Canada's retailers and singled out the video game deals in the guides below. Just click on a retailer to view:

Best Buy | Futureshop | EB Games / GameStop | HMV, Zellers & Walmart

Head past the break for additional tips!

JoyTips

1. Plan accordingly: Most retailers open extremely early, but many deal hunters will line up the evenin

2. Looking for a hardware bundle? Here are our picks:

PlayStation 3 (160GB) [$299.99] (details)
- Futureshop adds Infamous and Killzone 2 to the bundle, which already includes Uncharted: Drake's Fortune
- Best Buy adds LittleBigPlanet: Game of the Year Edition and Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time to the bundle, which already includes Uncharted: Drake's Fortune
Xbox 360 Elite Holiday Bundle [$299.99] (details)
- Best Buy is slashing the Elite Holiday Bundle's price down to $239.99 (that's $60 off!)
DSi [$149.99] (details)
- Futureshop is selling all colors of the DSi for $30 off its regular price

3. Best deal on Modern Warfare 2? If you were looking for it this holiday season but Santa forgot to bring it, HMV has the best offer available ($29.99).

4. Staying home? Many retailers are extending their deals to their online stores (Some of which are already available!). And don't forget about Amazon Canada's game deals!

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Wow, I love the internet. I guess everyone needs a chance to shine their ignorance.
Don't mean to be overly rude but you misunderstood what I meant just a bit.
Also, I am from Canada. Moncton, NB..Maritimes.

Anyhow, I wanted to know the origins, which I just always took Boxing Day for granted and never thought why it was called that. I've seen the flyers, I know the sales and yes I've seen it all my life. I was kind of guessing Sears didn't invent boxing day and that's what I wanted to find out. Considering at some workplaces Boxing Day is a Holiday and at even fewer it's paid Holiday (for those that are lucky enough).

wow, ranty.

No. I don't think anyone but you misunderstood anything or showed their ignorance at all. I think you thought: "I had to look up the origins of boxing day! And I'm from Canada!"

But wrote:

"From Canada, and I had to Wiki to find out wtf Boxing day was."

Nope.

Thanks, Xav!
I had the unfortunate chance of buying a PS3 for my brother in law who happened to receive one the day before. We'll probably pick him up a 360 now.

http://www.snopes.com/holidays/christmas/boxingday.asp

Don't fancy doing one for the UK as well? Boxing Day is also a big deal here. Though sales extend through the whole of January here and Boxing Day just initiates a month of the sales so people don't tend to rush out like Black Friday. It's more to encourage people to spend money after Christmas when they normally would be timid spending money after the expense of Christmas, as well as giving people an excuse to spend gift cards and money they'd have got from relatives over the holidays.

Personally I intend to repeat Christmas day. There is enough turkey left to repeat Christmas dinner, and enough desserts and snacks to last a few days, so I'll be on NSMBWii and starting Spirit Tracks (I didn't do much gaming today - I figured why miss Dr Who etc when in a few days tv will be quiet and I'll want to game).

Heh, that $40 mark-down on Avatar is pretty brutal.

L4D2 was being marked down 25 within a week of release.

But it is a tad harsh. I'd definitely pick it up for that price.

awesome deals, thanks for showing your love for us Canadians! :)

That is is a pretty good PS3 bundle.

oh that HMV deal for MW 2 looks amazing, 30 bucks. might have to pick it up for ps3 so i can play Mw 2 on all three platforms!

so wheres the boxing?

Unless you have servants to box the leftover christmas dinner and give it to you dont do any

that's great ! i bought Resident Evil 5 for $29.99 last night and i bought Wii Sports Resort for $39.99 online both at Best Buy we need to have at least one controller to have the Wii Motion Plus i bought it for my mother for christmas ( A Wii ) and shes loving the bowling and so is my father.

anyways thanks for covering for the Canadians Joystiq !

I guess finding out on the internet is too hard. I guess now you'll never know.

Ahh man, I made a boxing day guide too. I thought no one would cover it, oh well. Mine has links to all the flyer's though so if you want to check it out here is a link.

http://data-cube.org/?p=553

We have Boxing Day in Australia too, it must be a commonwealth thing.

I always thought it had to do with our boxing kangaroos being liberated from loony tunes cartoons.

I have 300$ in pure cash to spend... what should I buy?

* Already received a PS3 and ipod Nano for Christmas, any ideas?
:D

Demons Souls - 60 Bucks
Uncharted 2 - 60 Bucks
FIFA 10 - 60 Bucks
LBP GoTY + Pirates of the Caribbean DLC - 50 Bucks
20 dollars PSN card, Get Shooter and flower.
.... 250 so far...

Mmmm...

Assassins Creed II, inFAMOUS, GoW collection, MW2, heh man... U can get a lot of stuff... specially since i did this "list" with South American Prices... where game price's varies from 60 to 80 dollars, and 60 dollars is pretty rare. :P

Thanks for the reply!
Lol, for Christmas though (people were generous) I got
-Uncharted 1
-Uncharted 2
-MGS 4
-Little Big Planet GOTY Edition (came free w/ PS3)
-Ratchet and Clank
-And I got a 20$ PSN card with the Uncharted 1 purhcase XD

But I'm definitely getting Assasins Creed II and probably inFAMOUS, so that really helped!
:D Merry Christmas lol.

Damn, that's an awful lot... rich people smh

@Wilhelm
It's all I got XD

By your reasoning big bucks=enjoying life...then why are you the one trying to get rich?

I hope no ones going to Futureshop/Bestbuy, because you ould have bought everything the 24th online without waiting in the cold.

It's shopping time !!!

Last year I stayed up all night on Christmas and then went to Best Buy at 3:30 a.m. and left with nothing (unless you quantify disappointment as something). This year I just went to Futureshop's website at 8:00 p.m. on Christmas and bought what I wanted.

I would also recommend the boxing day deals at amazon.ca. Their videogame stuff is about as cheap as the items listed in the article:

http://www.amazon.ca/Video-Games-Deals/b/ref=amb_link_86347371_11?ie=UTF8&node=1267154011&pf_rd_m=A3DWYIK6Y9EEQB&pf_rd_s=center-1&pf_rd_r=0HAYNY019QK5Q4NW4PQ3&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=506935231&pf_rd_i=1265255011

This site has a good rundown on all the deals to be had.
http://www.redflagdeals.com/forums/games-page-832074/

Traditionally, or originally, it used to be a day when retailers gets rid of their old stock of anything at a super low price to make way for the new stuff. It was also a day when people return gifts they didn't liked to the store and those retailers have to mark down the stuff people returned to get rid of them. In other words, "Boxing" as in door crasher, pushing around, etc.

Um...NO.

Boxing Day has nothing to do with retailers 'fighting' to get out of the red. It might SEEM that way with the current commercialization but Boxing Day existed way before the Best Buys of the world

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/CUSTOMS/Xmas/boxingday.html

I think the media really messed up my mind as I never thought the British aristocracy (well most of them) would never help out the poors back in those days.

Is it wrong that I wish there was a sale on Bayonetta even though it's not released for another week plus?

I hate these sales before all the games I have yet to get come out, but I'm thrilled that there are people who get to take advantage of this, if you haven't gotten most of these games yet, stop delaying!

DO IT NOW!

Haha, you must be from RedFlagDeals.com! Buy first, think later! ;-)

I really had to hold back but still regret not getting Halo Wars.

http://neenainai.com/bracket to vote

we're having such mild weather for winter, cloud-less skies on the west coast anyone? Then again, most of the people I know whine about snow like we're getting it just as bad as the rest of Canada.

I love snow, more than I love playing videogames.

You missed the $15 Assassin's Creed at Future Shop.

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