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Re:Microsoft Has Stopped Manufacturing The Kinect by emodendroket on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @12:53PM (#15551756)
The main reason Sony killed OtherOS was that they began to think it could be used to circumvent copy protection for games. In Kinect's case I'm guessing the pricing was set at least in part with the idea that the games would make up for low-to-negative profit margins.
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Re:Microsoft Has Stopped Manufacturing The Kinect by freeloop3 on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @02:18PM (#15552643)
I'm not so sure it was so cut and dried as that. The air force was using them to create a supercomputer using other-OS and Sony was selling it as a loss.

I think they were worried about people buying them up and not purchasing games.

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Re:Microsoft Has Stopped Manufacturing The Kinect by icefo on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @03:44PM (#15553435)
A professor in my college also did exactly this: https://lacal.epfl.ch/112bit_prime

They used about 200ps3 to find some prime number (cryptography related)

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Re:Microsoft Has Stopped Manufacturing The Kinect by sirmike_ on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @10:59PM (#15556025)
I think it is but for a more base reason. If they cut it, no man hours have to care for it. Simple monetary explanation. It sucked when they cut it.
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