Canadian gift cards: Nintendo, Xbox and no PlayStation

Canada is a mid-sized shelf with one clear gap in it, so it's worth knowing the shape before you shop.

Gaming

Xbox comes in C$15, C$25, C$50, C$75 and C$100, with Game Pass at C$35.99 and C$71.99. Nintendo is C$10, C$35, C$50 and C$99. Twitch runs C$15 to C$100 for subscriptions and bits, and Google Play climbs from C$10 to C$100 in small steps.

There are no PlayStation Store cards for Canada at the moment. If your PSN account is Canadian and you need wallet balance, that's the one thing this region can't do today. PlayStation across every region shows which countries do have them.

Day to day

Amazon from C$5 to C$100. Starbucks in six sizes starting at C$5. DoorDash from C$15, Uber Eats at C$15 flat. Sephora, GAP and Home Sense are on the shopping shelf.

Travel, which is the surprise

Canada has one of the deepest travel shelves we carry. Hotels.com from C$10, Airbnb at C$50, C$75 and C$100, then Fly Stay Gift, Rentacar Gift, Tours Gift, TripGift, Airline Gift and Global Hotel, mostly C$30 to C$100. They're all on the travel shelf, and they make a decent present for someone who travels and doesn't game.

A note on the Game Pass cards

The larger Canadian card is exactly twice the smaller one. Buy whichever matches the stretch you want covered, and don't rush to redeem it: the code sits in your vault until you're ready.

What you can't do is part-pay one. A card redeems whole, for whatever length Microsoft is selling at that price on the day, so check the length on the Xbox store before you choose.

Is your account Canadian?

Microsoft accounts are the ones to check, because Xbox and Game Pass both follow the country on the Microsoft account rather than the console. Find the country on your Microsoft account walks through it.

One warning worth repeating: changing that country empties the existing wallet balance. Spend it before you switch anything.

Paying

Prices are in US dollars, face values in Canadian ones, and the two sit side by side on every card. Codes land in your vault within seconds of payment and never go out by email, which is why keeping your codes safe is such a short read.