X1 info galore: AMA with dev, kinect cost, clock speed romur, console sound and more

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Why are people shocked Kinect 2.0 is expensive?

What do you think would be more expensive, assembling off the shelf midrange pc components or creating a one of a kind motion tracking camera far superior to anything that exist today? R&D on Kinect alone must be in 100s of millions of dollars...