Or GW purposely avoided using the menu to prevent detection [/conspiracy theory]
I really really hope they aren't gateway. I'm itching to use mine.
I doubt that they would avoid showing the multirom menu out if fear that people would see it as evidence that Gateway and EVo3DS are the same team.
First of all it probably took a lot of work to get that menu working and downgrading the multirom to use Directional Pad Up instead not only means throwing out that work but also that they would need to put in additional work just to make the rom switching interface more primitive. This is not even mentioning they would be doing something that will make the rom swapping interface conflict with the built in navigation system in the Home Menu.
Also if they were trying to drum up interest, which they certainly are, the menu would certainly have been far more eye catching.
Also, just because both Gateway and Evo3DS used the same style menu for multirom would not be conclusive evidence that they were developed by the same team.
It would be entirely possible that their software is based on a leaked Gateway 2.0 Beta. Altenatively, they could simply have imitated the style of the Gateway Multirom Menu because they thought it was the best way to handle multirom selection as well.
I guess what I am trying to say is that it would be a lot if trouble to do away with the multirom menu just to hide any relationship that might exist between Gateway and Evo3DS.
This is particularly true when you consider the fact that a lot of the things that people have been pointing to as evidence that suggests a relationship between Gateway and Evo3DS could have been easily addresses with much less effort.
For instance the site layout similarities between the Gateway and Evo3DS websites as well as the packaging of both products appear to almost have been intentionally done in order to suggest a link between the two flash carts. If they really wanted to hide any relationship between Evo3DS and Gateway, both of these would have taken very little effort make more dissimilar.
On the other hand, if you take into consideration that Evo3DS for some reason is trying to convince people that the team behind it is also the team behind Gateway, this would explain the similarities in the packaging and the website along with the timing of its announcement. At the same time it would be very hard for them to edit the teaser videos to show the multirom video working through the simple video editing and masking techniques that may have been used to doctor the teaser videos.
I for one am not discounting the possibility that the Evo3DS is simply a hoax or that the teaser videos were doctored to get people to buy the Evo3DS on the assumption that the features are already intact at launch.
There is already precedent for this kind of thing happening. MT-Card for example claimed to have a lot of features that were absent from their product at launch. This is despite the fact that they released teaser videos showing things that were actually not working yet. Granted, some of these features were later introduced in a patch that was released a couple of months later. Though one should also take note that quite a few important features have not even been addressed yet.
In a sense, it makes perfect sense that Evo3DS might want to convince people that the team behind their cart is the development team behind Gateway even if thus is not true. After all, Gateway is the only one to have released new innovative features at all, with the one possible exception of MT-Card's multirom hardware button.
Gateway's reputation is such that if you assume they are behind Evo3DS, you would have little doubt that the features shown on the teaser videos would be available at launch. That is certainly not something you would take for granted if you assumed that Evo3DS was released by some new hack clone company.