Canadian Boxing Week Video Game Sales Hub

by Xav de Matos on Dec 25th 2009 4:00PM

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!

Tags: Bargains worth the wait, BargainsWorthTheWait, boxing-day, boxing-week, canada, DS, Microsoft, Nintendo, sales, SaleTime, Wii, Xbox-360

Reader Comments (85)

The Uncharted pack for that price? Hell of a deal.

Agreed, 3 games and a PS3 for only $300?

It's the older fat PS3 I think, because didn't the Slim launch with a 120GB drive, not a 160GB drive? Either way, at that price it's a steal.

Yes, the 160GB is a Phat unit.

Amazon.ca had Fable 2, GeOW2 GOTY Ed, Halo Wars and Halo 3 for $10 each for a while the other day, I picked up all 4 even though I don't have an X360.

And my advice to you fellow Canadians as a former Best Buy/FutureShop (same company/policies/stuff now) employee...

Never buy the Product Service Plan. If you do want an extended warranty get it DIRECT FROM THE MANUFACTURER.

Best Buy/FutureShop will just ship it out to the lowest fucking bidder who offered to do the job.

Also, if you're buying a two-year extended warranty from Best Buy and the manufacturer already has a one year warranty on the product, guess what?

You're getting two years of warranty, not three years. Best buy won't start the 'extended warranty' after the manufacturer's warranty. They're going to start it right when you purchase it. So, don't buy it, you're wasting your money, especially if your product already has one year of warranty.

Just get the extended warranty from the manufacturer like he says.

actually there service plan option is a from a company called assurant Atlanta
and they send it to (insert company name 's here) and i happen to work

for a t.v. service shop and We are not some cheap quick bang'em up job's!
we preform great service and if we can not repair it. then we take it to
future shop/ bestbuy and they will let you have a new (what ever you bought).

@Akio Morita ... the TRUE 'Father of PlayStation':

I am aware the holiday existed prior to stores. The "red" explanation is one we have in the retail management world, where I spent five years of my life as a GM at EB Games.

Nice to see that even the staff get screwed over by the comment system.

Thx Xav, just what I needed

Merry Christmas Everyone

Could someone translate this article? I don't speak Canadian.

If you don't understand it, you need more then just help "translating".

Can someone translate Ben's comment? I don't speak like an idiot.

Aww don't worry Ben, when you learn to read, this'll all make sense.

Hey Ben, on behalf of Canada, I'd like to wish say Fuck You!

But still, have a Merry Christmas.

Dick.

I still haven't decided if I'm lining up for boxing day this year, but it's good to see the joystiq is covering it.

I love it when you guys show Canada some sweet lovin'!

Like black Friday, but boxing day happens the day after Christmas.

Awesome, this Canuck thanks you for this list!

Boxing day sales have sucked for the past couple of years. The best deals are before and after boxing day ironically enough.

I'm guessing Black Friday will eventually take over there.

It seems odd to have Boxing Day sales after Christmas. By then most people have already spent all their money on gifts. Perhaps that is why the deals weren't as good as previous years, not enough sales with the economy and more people buying things on sale earlier in the year.

Black Friday here?

You know our Thanksgiving is in October right?

Black Friday has nothing to do with Thanksgiving, it just so happens that they chose that day as the day.

My point was that I believe the idea of Black Friday (having the sales around the last week before December starts) will start to catch on more in Canada since having the sales after the biggest gift giving day isn't very good business sense.

"Canadian retailers try their own Black Friday"
http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2009/11/27/consumer-black-friday.html

Also, I spent 3 months in Canada at the end of 2007, so yeah, I know Thanksgiving is the first part of October. I always found that odd, but I guess that's just because I was raised in a different country.

To me it only seemed natural to have Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas all about a good month apart from the next one. It just seems... more organized or well spaced. Like calendar zen or something of that sort.

I still think every month should have at least one major holiday that is no less than one month before or after another major holiday. Every month we'd have good food, presents, candy, fireworks, or just something special to look forward to.

"I still think every month should have at least one major holiday that is no less than one month before or after another major holiday."

Amongst the emptier individuals of consumer society, the constant need for spectacle aches at the base of their soul; without question, spectacle, no matter how empty, is what life is made of. For these poor men (a wonderful idea once you consider the vast amounts of capital accumulated in comparison to darker parts of the world) even something as dreary as the administration of days, weeks, and months must be incorporated into some sort of communal spendathon; for this, my friends, is obviously the only way to keep in touch of the various days, weeks, and months of the year.

The spectacle is glorious, the spectacle is true; the spectacle was made for me, and certainly for you. Representation has no correlation to meaning, just as long as something is happening, just as long as months can be ‘organized’ (with a Z) in conjunction with ‘holidays’ so one can celebrate ‘something’ then it will all be okay. Everything will be okay if we can have ‘holidays’ to celebrate ‘something’; meaning comes later: Thus Spoke Sonicspike41.

Yesterday, Amazon.ca had Halo Wars, Fable 2, Halo 3, and GOW2 for $9.99 each for a short time! I picked up Fable 2 and regret not getting Halo Wars now... :-)

I bought all 4 of the $10 games, and I don't own an xbox

The point of it is to get people to spend all their gift cards and gift cash they got for Christmas. America does it too we just don't have a name for it yet. I have like $135 in wal mart cards to go through tomorrow.

Like I wrote in the article. Boxing Day refers to retailers trying to fight their way out of the "red," IE losses and break even before the year is up and new inventory comes in for 2010.

That is also why they call it Black Friday. Retailers trying to get out of the red and into the black.

I had no idea that Boxing Day was a Canadian-only holiday.

Thanks for the guide!

The Dec. 26 shopping holiday is also found in the UK, Australia and New Zealand. But this guide is specifically for Canadians.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxing_Day

Free knowledge is good.

There are a lot of better deals than those, Canadians can check RedFlagDeals or the CheapAssGamer Canada Forum for more detailed info. As well gamedeals.ca is doing 20% off everything this weekend.

To Joystiq: Thanks for the love for Boxing Day deals. It's going to be even more busy than today itself.
To "Gamedeals": Please recall the first and second rules of RFD before referencing it.

Is this the Kennedy Road(Scarborough) Futureshop in the pic? looks like it if so it's the only one I ever go to when I'm in Toronto.

I'd dropped by once I get to Toronto tmw but i'm flat broke who the hell as money on Boxing day lol

Most Futureshops look like this.

Here is an Ottawa one for kicks: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=kanata,+avenue,+ottawa&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=50.51141,78.486328&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Kanata+Ave,+Ottawa,+Ottawa+Division,+Ontario,+Canada&ll=45.311507,-75.906086&spn=0.005523,0.009581&t=h&z=17&layer=c&cbll=45.312306,-75.90625&panoid=tLAkRd5zcw6RYNEfF5KfEw&cbp=12,164.14,,2,-2.98

@ Akio:
yeah i was gonna say, it looks exactly like the one on Merivale in Ottawa!

I think it is the one by Kennedy lol it looks exactly like it

Thanks from Canuckistan! :D

*packs lunch for spending the night outside Futureshop*

Hey, that image is from the Future Shop in Courtenay, BC! That's pretty cool. Oh yeah also, good deals etc. etc....

Here's a satellite image of the very same Future Shop....I doubt any of you are interested, but hey, I find it kinda cool. :)

They all look the exact same... I know of a couple in Toronto and Ottawa that look the exact same. Sorry to burst your bubble :P

Here in New Zealand we also have Boxing Day as our biggest shopping day, if I didn't read blogs and stuff I would have now idea what the hell black friday is

Hmm MW2 for that price. Even though I said I would not get it... maybe I will use that 10$ gift card on it instead.

The AC2 one at Walmart sounds pretty sweet too. Guess I will see where I end up over the week.

Canada is make believe

You're from the Maritimes all right.

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

Although...

My mom tells a story when I was a kid I said, "Boxing day was the day Grampy took all the beer bottles in for money."

You're from Canada and you had to Wiki Boxing Day? That seems really improbable, even Hutterites are out to score deals the day after Christmas and they aren't exposed to all the media hype.

Merry Christmas from Calgary.

No. Not improbable: impossible.

Unless you've never listened to the radio, read a flyer, visited a mall in december, watched Canadian television, or had friends who knew about it.

For your entire life.

I just braved a trip to West Edmonton Mall, and from what I saw It's fairly obvious all of Canada knows about Boxing day.

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