Yes, but if you're living
Cars need to be driven, computers need to be turned on and enjoyed.
100%. If your original hardware is not bringing you enjoyment, what's the point? Agreed fully
@dwaco
Even my mister can be a bit of a spaghetti mess
USB keyboard and mouse add that much spaghetti? I did put mine inside a 1200 case as noted with the 8bits4ever MISTress1200 board, so that cleaned up that big problem. You can put a MISTer inside a C64 case surely. I was thinking about it, but after the 1200 was done found the idea redundant for my needs.
Look, I've made assumptions due to the audience here: surely if you're here you most likely have the original hardware for 100% pure experience. And likely you've perhaps sourced some quality-of-life improvements to it. Objecting to the requirements and limitations of original hardware, while maybe a peeve is somewhat strange, don't you think? Cables, video...these are part of the original experience and reality. Resenting it is somewhat...well, as I said, strange. So if you have the original hardware, as most of us do, need for a New C64 is not that great. In my view this need should certainly not come before MISTer, because even if you use the MISTer with external USB keyboard and mouse, MISTer replaces so much retro hardware, the value proposition of MISTer simply overwhelms any other retro hardware offer, expecially one based around AMD FPGA or ARM cpu/software.
Hence, as I've noted, in my view, MISTer should be the first non-original hardware FPGA kit anyone in retro buys and owns. MISTer offers too much to overlook, regardless of niche limitations. Which then leaves a challenging narrow gap for anything else to fit into. Of course the C64 is a very special machine to many, so catering to the nostalgia of the machine appearance is an obvious strategy. Many have taken the design and put a PC into it or AMR/software, or an AMD FPGA. All of these efforts wrap the skin we know and love around hardware that in my view is not exceptional.
New C64 really bothers me too, because they took the Ultimate64 board, which did exist in a version with a Cyclone V MISTer FPGA and all those amazing features. But this new Commodore opted against the 110,000 logic cell Cyclone V FPGA in favour of the AMD XC7A50T with 52,160 logic cells to limit the product in terms of capability and core options users could load in.
That type of decision really pisses me off as a consumer. It's wasteful for starters, because I fully expect that on their product roadmap they will make a better product eventually and come after more money from the retro community.
I'd much rather get a Keyrah and squeeze a MISTer Cyclone V FPGA into an original C64 case now. Actual real C= original 64 case and 100% original keyboard and every retro hardware accurately reproduced under that keyboard with a MISTer FPGA and the capability of the 110,000 logic cell chip that has incredible retro support and cores. Or maybe that Ultimate64 Elite board can be bought with a Cyclone V FPGA still?
and software emulation. 
