Most stores are still having trouble keeping them in stock since they sell out so quickly. Unless they are releasing another card to replace the simply immediately, discontinuing the simply would be a pretty dumb busuness move.
I think the point here is for people who already got an M3 DS simply and are afraid that the M3 DS Simply might not be updated in the future.
Well, don't worry anyway - the R4 DS loader can be patched to function on a M3 DS simply. So your M3 will have updates anyway!
Yep - thank god. I just hope that the R4 keeps being produced otherwise everyone's screwed.
What would they be replacing it with so soon? Unless they just call it something else. Developing and producing this hardware seems like it would be pretty expensive for only a few months of production. More likely they are changing manufacturers of the hardware, to someone who is doing it cheaper, and having a hiccup in the process?
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The M3 team would have to be pretty stupid to stop releasing updates for the Simply when all they have to do to convert the R4 loader is change one bit for the hardware check, a few pieces of text, and paste in their own default skin.
Hey, we just stopped supporting our old cart that you bought two months ago. Buy our new cart!
Hey, we just stopped supporting our old cart that you bought two months ago. Buy our new cart!
True, pretty stupid if they did stop selling them. It is probably getting them a huge amount of profit (possibly more so than the slot 2 cards, seeing how popular slot 1 has been recently)
I herd about this as well, because the M3 team don’t have anything to do with manufacturing the M3 simply, it’s R4’s hardware. M3 makes very little on the simply compared to other cards they manufacture. The only reason they made this deal with R4 is because at the time when R4 & SC were coming out with there slot-1 cards M3 at the time had nothing, so they made a deal with R4 to lease there technology.
M3 thought because of their name alone they would out sell R4’s with all of their loyal customers. But people aren’t that stupid, well most people anyway. With R4 making the hardware for both & being cheaper plus getting updates a few days earlier. The R4 has been out selling the Simply about 100 to 1, so with M3 not making the money they expected the Simply has become more of a burden to the M3 team. But with the R4 DS loader out now at least there are no worries if anything happens.
M3 thought because of their name alone they would out sell R4’s with all of their loyal customers. But people aren’t that stupid, well most people anyway. With R4 making the hardware for both & being cheaper plus getting updates a few days earlier. The R4 has been out selling the Simply about 100 to 1, so with M3 not making the money they expected the Simply has become more of a burden to the M3 team. But with the R4 DS loader out now at least there are no worries if anything happens.
It's only because the CMOS Chip out of stock for a week, it's will be start supply in this days.
No! Not the M3 Real! That'd make my M3 Simply useless! Well, I could use hacked R4 firmwares, but rather not!
I don't believe it exists anyway...
