Have console game prices become unreasonable?

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HappySqurriel said:

bbsin said:
You guys must be young because the prices for consoles and games before the "Sony generations" were unstable and ridiculous. I remember buying Chrono Trigger for around 80 USD.

I'm not that young, and I remember when cartridge based videogames were much more expensive. The thing that bothers me about the price of modern videogames is that they're all disc based which (compared to cartridges) have tiny manufacturing costs. Beyond the initial price, this low cost of manufacturing should result in having a large library of "Greatest Hits" titles that are budget priced ...

And yet Greatest Hits seem to have all but disappeared on all 3 consoles... I'm not sure why people are ignoring this part of my complaint and just focusing on the base price of the media...