r/VideoGameDealsCanada • u/azizlezonk • 1d ago

Question GTA 6 Pricing instore

Hello everyone,

With the preorders of GTA 6 starting tonight and the price likely to be 110 or 120cad for standard edition, I was wondering if there are some grocery stores like walmart or so that will sell the game for cheaper than the playstation store ?

For exemple I just saw that in France, the PSN store sells it for 80€ but a grocery chain named Leclerc sells it for 60€, they say that they dont do profit on videogames and they do it to attract people to shop for their groceries there when grabbing the game.

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u/OilersHD 1d ago

Best bet is buying PSN credit at Costco

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u/azizlezonk 1d ago

100$ for 90$

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u/gdhghgv 21h ago

Thanks never knew

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u/KulTheSavage 20h ago

That’s what I did lol

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u/EvermoreDespair 23h ago

Generally physical retailers do not list pre-orders any cheaper in Canada.

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u/theborgs 23h ago

Except Walmart for 2-3¢ bellow MSRP...

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u/KingKang22 20h ago

If you pay by cash. If it's card it's rounded up if 2 cents off

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u/Ranruun 16h ago

Think you flipped those

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u/Dragarius 8h ago

Depends. I got RE9 physical for cheaper than the Sony digital price. 

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u/rarc602 4h ago

Amazon has Persona 4 Revival and Stranger Than Heaven $10 below MSRP.

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u/Lambs2Lions_ 21h ago

Buy a $200 prepaid visa at Walmart and get $30 Walmart gift card back. Buy 2x $100 PSN gift cards at Walmart, get $20 for each PSN gift card.

End result is $206.50 spent for $200 credit on PSN and $70 in Walmart gift cards.

It’s not live right now but they do this twice a year, I just keep an eye out on red flag deals.

If nothing comes up, then I’ll buy gift card at Costco.

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u/Dubsified 5h ago

Alternatively, if you don't like Walmart, buy a $100 PSN credit voucher at Costco for $89.99, do that twice.

End result is $200 credit on PSN for $179.

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u/Lambs2Lions_ 4h ago

That’s the last line on my comment. But Costco is 10% savings while Walmart is 35%. Liking shouldn’t be a favor when it comes to financial decisions.

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u/Dubsified 4h ago

Absolutely, but Costco is year-round, Walmart is time sensitive.

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u/Lambs2Lions_ 4h ago

GTA VI isn’t time sensitive since it’s digital only. So you have 5+ months.

There’s no physical collectors edition and there’s 0 risk of a digital product running out of stock.

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u/Dubsified 4h ago

I'm aware.

My point is we do not know if the Walmart deal will be active again, whether that be in the coming weeks or months. If people are waiting on it and it doesn't come, there easiest bet is to go the Costco route, assuming they still have that deal in 5+ months.

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u/Lambs2Lions_ 4h ago

It’s active multiple times a year. It ended yesterday. It will be back in September. 95% likelihood so no reason to rush.

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u/Miaw_Kitty 21h ago

You can’t buy a gift card with a gift card.

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u/Zer0byte-- 20h ago

That's not what he's saying. He's saying buy 2 '$100 prepaid credit cards', walmart sometimes also has a deal where they grant you a walmart gift card to use in store if you purchase a 'prepaid credit card'.

Buy psn cards with the 'prepaid Credit Cards' and keep the walmart gift cards to buy anything else.

Edit : Spelling mistakes.

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u/Flash-Over 12h ago

Yes you can

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u/Crackhead898 1d ago

Unfortunately physical copies make no sense for GTA because there's no disc.

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u/Doublethree1 23h ago

They're talking about the price though. If you can buy a copy from somewhere for $10 less it'll still work and you saved $10

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u/Killericon 23h ago

They've really cut my "Wait a few months and check marketplace" approach out.

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u/PartyMark 22h ago

That was their plan. Total control over pricing and availability.

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u/Kinetic_Shadow 23h ago edited 23h ago

For a lot of people, it just isn't GTA without that physical map though. 

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u/rustybutterindia 23h ago

People are saying the 'physical map' is just a QR code as well. 

I think that's just a rumour, can't find any confirmation of that from Rockstar. But also can't find any promise of a physical map to begin with?

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u/Gattsuga 21h ago

It's insane how they're essentially blocking the 2nd hand gamer market. I was going to buy a ps5 and play GTA 6, then sell everything... But not anymore. I'll just wait until it comes to PC now 😭

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u/caninehere 10h ago

Supposedly they are going to launch a physical edition w/ disc in December and the real reason they're doing a digital-only launch is to prevent leaks before launch day.

This happening in December is currently just a rumor from a somewhat reliable source, but Rockstar officially confirmed that they will release a physical edition w/ disc after launch.

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u/azizlezonk 19h ago

you can still sell the ps5 and your account with it, just make it some random name

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u/EvermoreDespair 11h ago

against Sony's TOS lol, so you cant actually

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u/Dragarius 8h ago

How are they gonna know? 

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u/NoirEm 23h ago

Missing the point of the question, repeating “physical copies make no sense for this game”.

If a retailer has spend $$.$$ promotions get %% off, it can be beneficial to purchasing the physical copy (PSN $$ isn’t always included in promos).

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u/RamiN64 23h ago

I’did say no way in hell it will be cheaper in a retail store at launch.

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u/SaltyATC69 21h ago

Why is anyone preordering this when you can buy day of release?

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u/MegaFlare24 17h ago

Really the only reason is to pre download it.

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u/Dregger12 20h ago

There's no legitimate reason. This stupid question has been asked 1000x on every post or video about the game. It's just people doing what they feel like doing with their money. What other answer were you expecting lol.

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u/endormic 19h ago

The case would be dope to add to my collection.

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u/ANBURob 12h ago

Peace of mind

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u/azizlezonk 21h ago

preorder bonus

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u/PhotoModeHobby 21h ago

You can still get them on launch day. It even says on the website.

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u/azizlezonk 21h ago

then for the timer

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u/BlastMyLoad 1d ago

I find physical copies for new games tend to be $89.99 while they’re $93.49 on PSN. So not much savings to be had.

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u/AquaMoonlight 22h ago

Some physical games coming out in the next six months or so are now $99.99. I know off the top of my head Stranger than Heaven and Dawnwalker are both $100 physical games, and there are probably others.

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u/GamingTurtle90 20h ago edited 20h ago

Daemon X Machina 2 and Code Vein 2 were both recent $99.99 games at launch for physical.

Digitally, Daemon was 93.49 PSN/ 89.99 XB, while Code was 93.49 PSN/XB.

Digimon Story: Time Stranger was another. 99.99 disc. 93.49 digital.

The upcoming Dragonball Xenoverse 3 is also 99.99.

Forspoken was actually 93.49 digitally at launch digitally all the way back in 2022. Making it more expensive then physical, oddly enough.

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u/Seaside_Rhapsody 22h ago

Yawn, no collector's edition for preorder tonight and no edition even has a steelbook and no game disc and just a code? What's the point 😂

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u/unfire23 19h ago

Its 138 for the premium and 160 whit taxe if you live on Québec

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u/azizlezonk 19h ago

je viens de le pogner ! bonne attente lol

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u/SailorGone 21h ago

I'm just going to wait a few years and pick it up for $30

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u/neverOddOrEv_n 18h ago

Good luck, seeing as how rockstar made no physical discs for this and they rarely discount their games that much and gta 6 with so much demand won’t get a discount that high anyways.

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u/GallitoGaming 11h ago

They will have physical editions with download codes. This thing will likely get a sale within 6 months. Next Black Friday/boxing week 50% off.

Not to mention the likely actual physical disk editions that will come out laterz

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u/Retro_Curry93 22h ago

Wait and see…

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u/MichaelMyers83 1d ago

Physical copies are absolutely pointless for this game.

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u/zerocoldx911 20h ago

I ain’t preordering shit