seren said:I know the point you were trying to make, but you said that "Firmwares don't make profit, actual carts does!", which is quite incorrect.
Actually, it's quite correct... while it's true that the firmware is a big selling point of any successful flash cart, it's also included - the only thing you actually pay for is the cart itself. So in a completely literal sense, only the sale of the actual cart makes the profit. The firmware is what makes or breaks customer loyalty - bad firmware will drive a customer to a competitor, but that could easily turn into a shady business tactic if the developers banded together in the name of greed - taking turns producing the good and bad firmwares, hoping customers will keep switching to the next flash cart until they've purchased several of them instead of just one. (Don't get me wrong, I'm not suggesting that the flash cart manufacturers are doing that, just saying that they could...)
But it still comes down to the fact that we don't have to pay anything for any firmware, ever, so the profits come from the hardware.