No, ultimately the only way the Xbone would reach parity with the PS4 would be new hardware internally, there is no way to 'fix' having a slower GPU and RAM beyond overclocking it and hoping for the best, Microsoft already know how that story goes.dragongit said:If anything games will now likely be on par with PS4 games. Maybe getting their resolution up to 900dpi at best.
I think with Kinect 2.0 Microsoft had their eyes on targeted advertising rather than user convenience. If they'd been able to push through their online requirement and people had bought the hardware in larger numbers they would have had free unlimited access to people's complete entertainment habits. TV, streaming, games, they would have a track of it all and with the Kinect they would have been able to (sort of) accurately track what got the most reliable reactions and attention from users. Selling that data on would have been worth billions.
Also, in the last year Microsoft have been filing patents on some of Kinect's broader features, so I would have guessed that they were planning to roll out the data gathering techniques to computers and smart phones too. My conspiracy theory is that Microsoft were trying to be the new Nielsen and rivaling Google for ad revenue.
It would seem that low Kinect uptake and usage have put even the potential for that plan on hold.