I get your argument, but I still see it as if it's the exact same data as on the retail production of the game, then it doesn't fit under the category of being a prototype. After all, what makes the product is the data itself, not the media its on, from my point of view. No one would care to go to the store and spend retail price on empty carts or discs because there is nothing that makes it worth it. That's how I see it.

The hardware comes from developers, it's development hardware, yeah. But I don't see how the media that it comes on makes it so it's qualified to still be titled a prototype when the game isn't even in what I personally anyways would consider a "prototype" phase; it's finished, and it's what makes the product in my eyes, not just the media it comes on, which itself isn't even a prototype, it's just a holder for the chips with the data.

There's not really much more I can say. Clearly I just have a very strict view of this, and I'm sure no one else will follow. So be it :P I understand people buying stuff because they like collecting development media. Best just leave it at that. I know what I myself would and wouldn't pay for anyways, others that are perfectly aware of what they're buying can do what they want :)

And as I said in the post the started this, "that stuff is only worth it for someone collecting this stuff".