When comparing PC vs Xbox One, the Slant community recommends PC for most people. In the question“What are the best gaming platforms?” PC is ranked 1st while Xbox One is ranked 4th.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Free services such as Steam
Pro Long Time Investment
You don't have to upgrade every so often. PC can still play AAA games even after 6 years after you build it.
Pro Works with any TV or Monitor
Pro Can play almost any older console games using emulators
Pro Fully customizable
Pro Better graphics
Pro Can be used for more than gaming
Pro More games
There are more games than all other consoles combined, even if not including their games on the PC.
Pro Free games
Pro Free mods and textures
Pro Cheaper than most consoles
A $400 PC has better specs than consoles such as the PS4 or XBox One.
Pro Kinect allows controlling the console using voice commands
Pro Kinect enhances normal games
The Kinect is no longer just for new play controls. With its next generation high quality camera, it can now enhance other games with cool features, such as tracking your face and automatically logging you into your account, as well as being able to automatically re-arrange your UI position for multiplayer games.
Pro An external hard-drive can be connected to increase storage space
Pro Kinect is optional
Xbox One can be bought without a Kinect and allows for GPU performance increase of up to 10%.
Pro Stream games to PC
Pro Great Twitch streaming app
Pro Blu-ray playback support
Cons
Con Isn't really a console
Some people wouldn't really consider this a console.
Con Requires assembly and can be hard to figure out for the technically inept
Con Very few games with proper Kinect-support
Con Kinect's voice control still needs some work
Con Many games have to resort to upscaling
Many games designed for multiple platforms, those developed for PS4 & XO especially, have to be upscaled when deployed to XO due to lack of raw graphical power.
Con If you have a Windows PC, you aren't losing much.
Most of the XBOX titles get ported to Windows, sooner or later.
Con Pay for online multiplayer
On top of having to pay for the console and games you have to pay for online multiplayer, not once but monthly.