Just examples off the top of my head, really - this was a generally accepted trend in pricing and the carts I showed you were nothing out of the ordinary, you're just not into flashcarts yourself (never bought one, as you stated yourself) so you don't know that. Understandable, but it further undermines your opinion... Which you are free to express and follow, just don't expect people to treat you seriously when you're foolhardily trying to pass it as fact despite evidence.
Rightly so, technology is supposed to improve in functionality and convenience, some people actually want more for their money. The functionality curve almost always severely drops off in the case of early next gen flash carts, so their outlook is having to pay more for less. The Gateway 3DS team isn't going to just sit on something like this (if it is indeed legit) until they have a functionally equivalent cart by today's standards just based on the fact that human avarice exists, they snooze they lose, someone else would sell their idea before them.All things considered, the DSTwo is still a pretty cheap solution compared to how convoluted flashcarts used to be. The community got very comfortable with sub-$50 drag-and-drop, plug-and-play devices and completely forgot that using flashcarts used to be extremely problematic. This sudden "ease" of flashcart infrastructures caused a "boom" in the community which is why standards have shifted.
Rightly so, technology is supposed to improve in functionality and convenience, some people actually want more for their money. The functionality curve almost always severely drops off in the case of early next gen flash carts, so their outlook is having to pay more for less. The Gateway 3DS team isn't going to just sit on something like this (if it is indeed legit) until they have a functionally equivalent cart by today's standards just based on the fact that human avarice exists, they snooze they lose, someone else would sell their idea before them.
If Mattel ever gets around to making actual hoverboards, even if they levitate for like 20 seconds after charging for 8 hours I would still expect to see exorbitant price tags. But the absurd pricing wouldn't make me call skateboarders spoiled
Lol are you delusional?
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.
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.
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.
What they expended leading up to the creation of this cart isn't any concern to the customers, they aren't buying that, they're buying the end result. What they're buying seriously can't cost much more than $5 to create and that's being generous. A tiny pcb, a few chips, an sd slot, plastic for the case, contacts and a sticker. It's not on them to front the production bill, utility bill, stocking fees etc. otherwise the R4 could have never afforded to sell as cheap as it did unless you take those factors into consideration there, too. Or do you think they chose to sell at a loss? The materials are incredibly similar.
Of course it's of no concern to the consumer, except the manufacturer won't sell a product at a price point that doesn't satisfy his needs. The costs of making the device need to be covered whether the consumer likes it or not.
Yeah, that's not true. The beauty about the R4-like designs is that there are already factories which make those and have both the machines and the personel to manufacture them on the cheap as long as you toss some money in their general direction. The Gateway is a new design and it requires more money tossed in the general direction of China to get it rolling, plus since it's first of its kind, it's natural for the manufacture to set a high profit margin.
I think we'll figure that out when Devin pops one of these open, chinese factories are pretty versatile, I don't see why they wouldn't be able to just make slight adjustments to enable them to pop out gateway 3ds's simple design.
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