The second article shows though that they had bundled Kinect with each Xbox One for about half a year before giving up (I guess they really got thrashed hard by

The second article shows though that they had bundled Kinect with each Xbox One for about half a year before giving up (I guess they really got thrashed hard by PS4 sales and went into panic mode). The thing is simply that Kinect made the Xbox One more expensive than a PS4, and that for a piece of hardware that most Xbox users saw at best as a gimmick. It probably was the first sane decision of the bungled Xbox One launch.