Have console game prices become unreasonable?

[Gamerace]

naznatips said:

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...

 That's true, but I think only the 360 should have rolled out a Greatest Hits collection yet. 

For Wii, a lot of the older Nintendo titles are still selling very well - Super Paper Mario, Wario, Brain Academy even launch title - Legend of Zelda:TP are still in the top 200 (or even top 50) weekly.  RRR had a price drop  as has some other 3rd party, but for 1st party what would they put in the Greatest Collection? Excite Truck?

PS3 also has too few titles both worthy of a Greatest Collection and not selling well anymore but again, maybe by this holiday season.