Unless they change their name for their next product, to start on a "clean" slate.. But people are so hungry to hack their consoles and go into piracy, even if they didn't change their name, if they come out with a piracy solution first, people will still buy it. Look at all those people trying to get a modchip for their Mariko, Lite or patched Switch console? They know future update status is uncertain, and they still want that modchip!
Those chips are still the only solution though. That's why people want them. It's either those chips with a questionable future or well, nothing. (I think that atmosphere can be booted by the chip now anyway).
It's also not just people hungry for it, just not everyone expects support until the end of time. Other than the usual suspects with an axe to grind, not sure why people expect it, it's always been that way with commercial products in this area. You get support until you don't, always been that way, you know the risk going in.
GBA carts, supported until they were not and you have to use community anti-piracy patches etc to get games to go because your cart/loader had dropped support.
Slot 2 DS, supported until slot-1 was out, then too bad, buy a new card.
Chips for wii, plenty still with broken streaming audio and the manufacturers abandoned without fixing it.
Just the way it is
Even if you know support is going to end at some point, still not a terrible deal, so people will buy.
Gateway was £50 or so. For that you got 2 years of great support, at the start of that the "free" option was a leaked unstable firmware. First to the 6.X keys, that were suppose to end homebrew/hacks or whatever, first to play newer games like smash bros. Did they drop support eventually, sure, no different to most other products in this area, but still a decent deal if you got it at the start.
If this is the last of SXOS, again £50 18 months ago. Good support and unique features for 18 months + still one of the smallest payload dongles that you can still use to boot otherstuff if you want and a good quality jig (at the time a lot where shitty paper clips, rather than soft brass/copper pins). Not a terrible deal.
So not a surprise people would still jump and buy if they are "first" next go around.
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