Suppliers like mouser
do seem to have pretty low capacity at the time being.
anyway, i took the first 512kB fROM unit listed just to demonstrate how drastically price per unit changes for a single component when ordering one versus ordering a thousand. Mouser doesn't even have parallel 5v NOR flash in that size listed from what i can tell (gulp), so this is just to demonstrate changes in price in differently sized bulk orders.
https://www.mouser.se/ProductDetail/Ade ... 49yXfNc%3dA parallel one with the lowest possible price i could find was this, which is still 3.3v, 1MB, requires sockets (might be expensive), and it has less than 1000 in stock. They do not list any parallel fROM:s under 1MB currently...
https://www.mouser.se/ProductDetail/Mic ... %2f8EsY%3dBut just for showing the differences in price per unit, these two examples work. That's for one component. Add that principle to all components on-board + to the manufacture and population of the bcb itself, and it'd still be significant... even if there's a NOR flash crisis.
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Games might end up having to display a copyright notice for a few seconds while loading the rest of the game from eMMC into PSRAM, like on FDS, N64, and optical disc consoles. I hope it'd be as fast as Tetris for NES (4.3 seconds), not the ColecoVision BIOS (12 seconds).
Before that happens, i think a more reasonable way to adapt is having a proper 5v to 3.3v shifter onboard. But the cost for that needs to be weighed against the cost of 5v tech - or serial loading. Other memory/storage technologies than flash might also be viable - and increasingly so.