But i want to see when some sort of huge megacorporation decides to do the same thing this guy is doing, using the "common" methods this kind of corporation does.

Originally, the PS3 was going to have 4 cell processors and no 3D GPU.

Time to build a huge bonfire and call the ghostbusters, because gozer is coming again.

But now they got even more nerds wanting to crack it to run linux.

Actually i kinda feel that most of the PS3 "special features" was part of the anti piracy scheme from Kutaragi.

having support to linux makes a lot of "nerds" just not bothering unlocking the beast, and the region free takes care of that mass of people that unlocks consoles to play import games, thus reducing the jail break need just for people that actually want to play pirate games on it.

Just quoting microsoft: “Kinect for Xbox 360 has not been hacked–in any way–as the software and hardware that are part of Kinect for Xbox 360 have not been modified. What has happened is someone has created drivers that allow other devices to interface with the Kinect for Xbox 360. The creation of these drivers, and the use of Kinect for Xbox 360 with other devices, is unsupported. We strongly encourage customers to use Kinect for Xbox 360 with their Xbox 360 to get the best experience possible.”

Or basically "creating a driver is not what we call tampering".

source: http://www.gamespot.com/xbox360/sports/thebiggestloserultimateworkout/news.html?sid=6283696

Well, they're worldwide of course, but these kind of erm.. interactive games are more popular by there.
the rest of the pervs will probably apreciate the voice commands/hand gestures to easily skip to other parts of a certain movie or pause it.

...till someone gets it to run on pc, and certain... "not so clean" software developers like illusionsoft get their dirty hands on it.,

Then probably the thing will just go boom there, as lets just say the device is quite.. more adequate to these .. kind of games.

hm, i think the "next iteration" you're talking about was launched already, its that 360 slim/s.

when we can profit on it, of course.

Nintendo 3DS?