Why not? Street Fighter 2 was, afterall, only a 20 minute game, and I paid probably the equivalent of 100-150$ USD multiple times for multiple versions of it back in the SNES era.
Resident Evil 1 and 2 couldn't have been more than 2-4 hours long.
Most NES games were not more than 2-3 hours long.
If the game is good, I will buy it. What the question fails to understand is that shorter games generally have LOTS of replayability. I would sooner pay full price for a good replayable short game, than a long game I would only want to play once.
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