If that's the "price" for getting a cheaper console that doesn't have an accessory that some customers may not want, then it's a price that I'd happily pay...or not pay, as it were.
Beyond forcing a price increase, the creepiness of the Kinect is the last thing that's keeping me (and I'd imagine a good deal of my fellow gamers) from having any interest in the XBone. Indeed, if we can turn the Kinect off any time we want.....why force it onto us in the first place? It's a failed product that no one bought when you first launched it for the 360, so tacking a failed product onto your new console and thereby forcing a price increase for your new console is like tying a couple cinderblocks to the legs of a man who's already drowning. In all honesty, now that they've gotten rid of the DRM and used game restrictions, if they got rid of the mandatory Kinect too I'd likely get a new Xbox over a PS4.
