If I was to invest, say 1 million dollars, would that help the project along and enable the team to produce more boards at a far lower cost to consumers? I don't currently have that (though might be able to get it) but just curious if money is an issue for the dev team. I understand if thats something you can't speak about or simply don't know. Just curious about what it would take to get it down to well under $500. Or better yet $200 to $300.
Getting the price down is one thing, finding a market for the product is something else. There's no point in funding a production run so huge that you can only sell 25% of the boards, because you're then going to have to quadruple the price of each board you sell in order to make up for your huge, unsold inventory stockpile.
You may as well accept the fact that this beastie is going to cost around $800 in sellable quantities.
The good news is that you do have a choice. If you haven't got $800 then you can get a FPGA Arcade instead just like people who bought an A500 when they really wanted an A2000.