Dammy, C-USA is not Microsoft. The idea you'd even remotely compare the two is appalling, regardless of your blind dedication to "the cause". The Kinect (and your facts are misleading about what you stated about the pre-order factor involving MS directly in a funds down deposit with MS directly) is a completely invalid comparison, and C-USA is not Microsoft.
MS has a worth of 44 billion dollars roughly, Dammy. MS doesn't have a pack of insulting, roving fanboys working for free as their ad department.
MS had a revenue of 16 billion dollars, Q4 2011.
They needed no pre-orders to develop the Kinect on a financial basis, and have never issued cockeyed "challenges" to the community in the guise of "helping". There's a lot to bitch about when it comes to Microsoft, but the comparison of them and the Kinect and C-USA and this purported project
is insane. Kinect took pre-orders for Kinect in the same way I can pre-order a video game from a vendor - a guarantee I will be able to obtain one when they become public and nothing more. I pre-ordered Skyrim, Dammy, via a Best Buy. Does that somehow imply that Bethesda Software, makers of said game - needed my pre-order to find game development? If they did, joke is on them, cause all I did was give my name and the retailer saved me a copy for pick-up with no cash down. Some stores did indeed ask for a deposit on Kinect, but to my knowledge MS themselves never asked for one thin dime to "reserve" one or otherwise fund anything. I had plenty of friends "pre-order" a Kinect via retailers, which required a deposit in some cases, but never a pre-payment to MS and money going into escrow, lol. A ridiculous comparison of situations, even for a fanboy, Dammy.
Microsoft has never come onto obscure hobby computer fan sites like A.org wanting to save the day, while simultaneously and blatantly insulting the community wholly at the same time. I've never got death threats from Microsoft if I stated I disagreed with their business practices. Bill Gates or Steve Ballmer has never hounded independent journalists, publically calling them homosexuals and asking about their sex lives if said writers gave them bad press.
Your C-USA/MS comparison isn't even as unplausible as an "apples vs. oranges" aspect. It's like comparing Mars to Earth, entirely irrational and insane, lol.