Microsoft's really at fault here. E3 was the time to announce why Xbox One should be the better game console. Sure, okay the "Vision of XBox One's DRM policies" looks promising, but seriously...are they? They NEVER did once announce anything of the sort, let alone even say something related to it. Okay sure, let's say that I'm gonna troll people with a DRM policy that I was going to implement, but of course, before babbling, I would first consider the positive sides of this, and TELL them to the general public. But no, they didn't even announce anything that they will be "Steam-Like".
But then again, will this ever be a thing? Steam games and sales are cheap for one of the very sole reasons. They're NOT physical copies. They're digital, and of course they don't actually need to be "produced" and "published", since they don't even have region-locking. Physical games on the PC aren't actually cheap, rather they BECOME cheap overtime, and this has been happening for years now, which is the same also for consoles. It's nearly impossible to have cheaper new games on retail for various reasons, like jailbreaking, piracy, hacking, and so on. A lot of people buying consoles also want physical copies more than digital ones, since they know it has more value than the latter. Even if the Xbox One still has it's original features, I wouldn't be surprised if someone tried to hack it and became successful.