Jam is sold and sold… but it’s not NI making the money… Why?

Activity in the used market doesn't mean Jam was a successful product and hit whatever target they set out for it, usually when a product is killed it's because it didn't perform well enough but there can be many other reasons.

If you want to be optimistic you can interpret it as: Making a new Jam now is just not the focus, something else is, and eventually, after that's done a Jam can be a possibility, don't hold your breath, considering how old Jam is if they truly had any interest it would have happened by now IMO... But you never know...

This is extremely dangerous, almost as much as a pre-order. You get a hint and make purchasing decisions but what if you don't like the execution of a new hypothetical JAM MK2? What if they change their mind and scrap the idea? What if it takes them 4 years to release it? Then people accuse them of false advertising... That already went very wrong when a promise was made that they were working on 'performance recording' which was at the time of release of Jam, then technical difficulties or priorities changes killed it and many people are still angry to this day.

Want another example? If i look inside the Maschine application i see this:

The name is exactly what you would expect it to be.

I've known about this for a very long time but I never mentioned this before as I didn't want to give anyone false hope, now enough time has passed so be sure this device ain't never gonna be released. But the point remains, that's some kind of prototype that went far into testing enough to still have files present in the current version of the software but at some point the idea was killed. Now imagine them hinting it to users only to then never happen... People would be angry.

One of the prototypes was actually sold on eBay, I guess someone from the office took it or something, there are still traces of it online even tho the ebay listing link no longer opens. I have a high res screenshot of the listing and device in some old HD. I actually tried contacting the seller and asking him to contact the buyer and i would double the price to keep it just as a souvenir but never got a response.

I guess so. TBH given a choice Idk what I would pick, the idea of it being 2 separate parts would be kind of cool tho, say you're not happy with the matrix being non-velocity sensitive, an upgrade could provide that without replacing the slider part, maybe also an motorized fader module for those who value it enough to pay a much higher price VS touch sliders, etc...