#kinda like how at the time computerized sewing machines were significantly more expensive than a gameboy color and a gameboy sewing machine?

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why were a bunch of various organizations doing this with PS3 consoles for a while. was it literally that the processor was the cheapest/easiest to get their hands on when it was inside a PS3? or were PS3s somehow special as a whole.

seems weird that linking up a thousand damn playstations would be preferred or even considered vs having someone manufacturing the hardware for sale alone so people could build it into ordinary computers. but idk maybe sony"s engineers working out the whole functioning hardware configuration plus using its large consumer base to support a higher scale of CPU manufacturing than could be supported otherwise by a niche market who would desire the processors untethered to a PS3 made going the PS3 route considerably easier and more affordable than I would expect.