I think the XB1 plight is a combination of a lot of different factors. Also think kinect and it costing $100 more cause of it was the least of those factors. The kinectless SKU is just a last resort way of making an already bad situation a lil better.
I personally feel that sony seemingly did everything in their power to mess up the PS3 launch. $200 more than their rival, coming in 12-16 months after their rival, made a console that was to hard to code for which in turn made all devs favor the 360, so dev previews were always on the 360 (that has a way of making people think that the game is only coming to the 360)...etc. This gen, its almost as if MS forgot all that played in their favor and basically did everything they shouldn't have done.







