The Xbox One came about because MS decided that the additional TV integration, the Kinect experience and innovative always online connectivity would blow away games running a bit faster on an "old style" box. Businesses aren't always aligned to the same incentives consumers are, MS has a lot of data centres and this would provide a "base load" of usage to help offset those costs, if the experience isn't the same or is noticeably worse but "good enough" in the right people's judgement then this could happen regardless of whether anyone on here would touch it with a bargepole.