I have been into consoles and personal computers (PCs) since the early 1980s. PCs at first was just some hardware IBM had slapped together that ran DOS which Microsoft owns. What is a PC, or better yet, when was the last time anyone bought hardware slapped together by IBM? Are PCs more powerfull than consoles? Trick questlon. Not all PCs are created equally. My Xbox One is on par with my Vista destop. In fact I am typing this post on my Xbox One. The main difference between the two is the Vista system is more open than the Xbox One. Microsoft has more control over the hardware inside and what hardware that can be plugged into it. Not to mention the control Microsoft has over what software that will run on it