That's hard to say.
PS3 would have had an even bigger momentum at the end of last gen without Kinect reviving/sustaining the 360. Move might have been slightly bigger, Wii motion plus might have had some more attention, motion gaming fatigue would still have followed.
Voice control is not as fresh in 2013 as it was in 2010.
With a $500 price tag, instead of a $150 add-on option, or a cheap 4gb arcade Kinect bundle, the audience Kinect was mainly aimed at wouldn't be as quick to purchase.
The Kinect hype was huge though, it was everywhere on tv. Assuming nobody else picked up the tech before 2013 it would still have felt fresh enough to get people interested.
The effect would have been far smaller as in 2010, but I do think it would have made a difference. Not enough to keep up with ps4 worldwide with the 13 country launch and higher price tag, but XBox One should still have been firmly sold out in NA. (Assuming that the launch Kinect games would be present at the XBox one launch, instead of the current situation)
A lot of ifs and assumptions, 2010 was by far the better time to launch Kinect right after the height of the Wii wave.
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