To answer your question about the Xbox One, I visited Microsoft Research during the development of the 2nd Kinect and the researchers were excited about all the

To answer your question about the Xbox One, I visited Microsoft Research during the development of the 2nd Kinect and the researchers were excited about all the technology they were going to pack into it and the great success that it would be - compared with their usual business of making prototypes that never see the light of day or are quickly killed off. It’s well known that Microsoft is a very divisional company with internal frictions, and I think what we saw with the Xbox One is that anyone who convincingly could shove their technology into the product lobbied hard for that. Perhaps because they knew the alternative for them was irrelevance.