I thought the point about being able to just put the rest of the system on the fpga was interesting. especially in light of his plans to potentially get an asic

I thought the point about being able to just put the rest of the system on the fpga was interesting. especially in light of his plans to potentially get an asic (which i also seriously doubt will happen for a niche product like this). I guess if your board is just an fpga and support circuitry, it won't feel very retro and cool, but if that's the long term trajectory, they could have probably reduced costs a lot by just doing that to begin with