I guess that “real market picture” depends both on MT’s policy (do they drop their own device prices after a while or not) and your local distributors (do they tend to keep prices high “just because they can” or do they lower them to remain competitive … if there’s real competition on the market). Global players (e.g. Amazon) affect local markets somehow, but with cheap gadgets also postage costs (and customs duties) matter.
But I guess that if your local distributors don’t drop prices (for old devices, such as hEX Gr3), then they don’t see any reason to do that … either they don’t have any stock and listed price doesn’t matter … as if a customer comes and orders a device, they’ll have to order it from source and if customer comes and orders an obsolete device with high price, then it’s obviously good value to the customer.
Or distributor does have some stock but still see market demand and want to maximize profits (or they simply can’t lower prices because they might start creating losses depending on price they had to pay when stocking).
But anyways, you should be discussing these arguments with your local distributor, not here. We don’t make pricing policies and MT has limited influence over local prices.