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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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