I definitely agree with you on that. I had to go replace my broken PS3 controller a few months ago and was shocked at how much they cost (on the bright side, I opted to get a gold DualShock 3 instead of the same ol' black one
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). That was an emergency, though, as I had no backup controllers. Normally, I wouldn't shell out $50-60 for a controller when I could buy a new game for the same exact same price.
It's a lot like how Sony charges outrageous amounts of money for a Vita memory card, especially when they first came out: the 32GB card was almost half as much as the system itself IIRC! But I don't want this to become a Vita discussion, so I'll stop there.