Lol are you delusional?
I agree with the first bullet-point but then you completely lose me. Nobody goes into manufacturing these without first realizing the blatant demand for them to begin with. The demand is everywhere, common sense would tell gateway 3ds that if nobody was buying then their price point is what the problem is, not a so-called lack of demand.
Okay, how do you call a situation where there's a
"supposedly" high demand for a product
and yet it doesn't sell? Apparently the demand
isn't as high as originally expected - simple. As for the price point, I'll elaborate on that below.
Someone who would make a novice mistake like that and end production completely would have to be a moron. All anybody has to do is search 3DS flashcarts on google to see what type of demand there is, the demand is so high that a thread was specifically made on this very website just to shut people up so they stop asking if a cart exists.
There very well may be demand for a flashcart, but people put their expectations too high when the system isn't even full-on hacked yet. Apparently there's only demand for $10-$15 flashcarts which do everything from 3DS ROM Loading through laundry to blowjobs, and that's unrealistic, not to mention not profitable for the manufacturer. When a product brings colossal losses and doesn't sell, you stop manufacturing a product
unless lowering the price point made any kind of difference and began making profits, not just returns.
I'm not in marketing but I guarantee a lot of people would buy this after a review on here surfaces even if they cut the price by 75%
The problem with the Gateway is that it's first of its kind - it not only has to sell,
"it has to pay for daddy's new pair of shoes" too, meaning the expenses of preparing a production line with no real
"example" of how the process is supposed to look like - the situation is nothing like that of the R4-like cartridges. The schematics for Gateway don't grow on trees wheras R4 schematics are so widely-available that you could make wallpaper out of them, hence the number of clones. The cartridge is different, the materials are different, the schematics are different, the process as a whole is different and preparing all that entails costs - costs that need to be covered by the first batches of the carts. Unlike a big company,
"two hackers from China" don't have the financial backing to save a sinking ship - if the flashcart won't sell, nobody in their right mind would indebt themselves in order to save it from obscurity.