The R4 is most certainly dead these days.
Lets compare the R4 to a nes , now i know a lot of people still have a nes tucked away somewhere but i think you all would agree its dead?!. Commercially and in support + there is much better out now.
So as with the nes the R4 also suffers from no support and is also not being sold/made any more + again there is far better choice these days and cheaper to boot.
Just because loads of you still have your old R4 cards and all you noobs keep buying fake R4's don't mean its alive still, Fake R4's don't count and its only a matter of time till all genuine R4's break or end up in the back of a draw.
And there is me just saing i wouldn't be getting into another discussion about the R4....Geeeees
So anyway to recap.
No support + No updates + no longer being made = DEAD/R.I.P r4
paul