"But in hindsight, it may be the case that the Kinect bundle, which still didn't do much other than receive voice commands and play a scarce handful of games, sunk the entire launch of the Xbox One. While the One had many problems at launch with Microsoft talking about an "always on" console and threatening to make discs obsolete, the Kinect, and the $100 it added to the Xbox One's price tag, allowed the PS4 to grab an early lead, and hang onto it to this day.
Microsoft eventually decoupled the Kinect from the Xbox One, dropping the price, and though the peripheral is still sold separately, Microsoft rarely even acknowledges its existence these days. It's hard to blame them, as it very well may have cost them this entire console generation, as now it's unlikely that Xbox One will ever be able to catch the sales total of the PS4.
Knowing all this, it would seem like Microsoft is smart to be gunshy about the HoloLens in its current form. It would be beyond pointless to start selling a $3,000 HoloLens when the Vive headset is $800 and the Oculus Rift is $600. "
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