I was asking for lower not higher priced similar products.
As for premium quality, it's not use if i can't afford it.
Well, you can get clones. They are popping up on aliexpress, but became harder to find (but not too much) than two to three years ago. They are working (at least the one that I have for snes), but usually don't have all the features (depending on the platform) and can't be updated (the one that I got for snes runs some old version of super everdrive firmware and will brick if I'll try to update it). Maybe some of them are slowly damaging the console you use them on (there were some debates on voltage levels of current memory ICs vs ones used in original carts), but don't quote me on that.
Flashcarts for some platforms are way easier to create than for the others and price is reflecting on this fact. For example, mega everdrive x3 can play nearly every game released for genesis, with exception of some homebrew (like Pier Solar, Titan's Overdrive 2 demo or some romhacks with exceptionaly large file size, 7mb is the limit for this cart) and Virtua Racing (because of custom hardware in the original cart), and mega everdrive x7 can run all of them (plus have some other features). But the x3 is still nearly perfect and cost four times less, with a price tag of only $39! The clones for this cart are even cheaper and still work ok.
But on the snes side things are much harder. There are some cheap clones (for something like $30), but they can't play any games that have mappers (and many great games on the snes have them).The same applies to original everdrives - you can't play games that used mappers on it either (but you can solder one original mapper of your chosing right on Super Everdive PCB and the games that used that mapper will be supported). But there is another flashcart - fxpak (previously known as sd2snes) It supports nearly every mapper available with some very rare exceptions, directly supports SuperCIC mod and even can run custom mappers like msu-1 (with this snes games can be more than 4gb in size, can play full motion video with good results and play nearly cd-audio quality music). But the price of this cart is nearly $200. There are clones of this cart (which can even be updated afaik), but even they are priced at nearly $150.
It's sad, but this carts aren't overpriced, they just aren't cheap to produce, mostly because of the price of FPGAs used in them and because of low quantities in which they are produced. Maybe sometime in the future FPGA prices will drop and this flashcarts will be more affordable, but who knows.
