Well, looks like part of the premise of the OP, that Ghosts looked identical, was wrong! Turns out the PS4 verion wasnt running 1080 because of a bug...will have to see when new comparison vids surface.

OTOH NFS Rivals was announced 1080P on both, so score one for Xbox.

It is always good to hear that people are going to be happy with their purchase.

Isnt that the point?

I will always rate: Story > Gameplay > Graphics > Audio

Ah the controversial retina quality. It's not far off anyway as 30 cycles per degree is the general accepted number for 20/20 vision. However 20/20 vision is based on the distance at which you can make out the smallest distinct letters and shapes, that's not the end at all for visual quality. It's the end where you can make out the grid pattern of the screen, yet you still need heavy AA for a nice picture plus sub pixel detail is still very distracting. (flickering power lines for example)

I game as low as 38 ppd (720p on my projector) and although it takes a bit of getting used to with a new game, it can indeed still loook quite good. Doesn't mean it's great. You say you rather have more detail and effects. The problem is when you start adding more detail and increase the draw distance the resolution becomes more important. It's all tied together. You don't want to play a game made for 720p in 480p, while 320x200 was plenty for Doom. Increasing the detail without the resolution to be able to see the detail is pointless and runs the risk that the extra detail starts to become distracting.

It depends on the game ofcourse. Ryse doesn't look all that complex and all the action happens up front, but in a racing game or FPS being able to resolve details in the distance is quite important.

Good audio trunks graphics for me, though I put them in this order cause I do play a good deal of games with the sound off (listening to music and whatnot). 

Hell making them equal isnt a bad idea tho, bad audio can destroy a game...some of the terrible localized JRPGs attest to that one, where bad graphics I can forgive.

It was not an attack, I was just stating that X1 is not under-powered as many people are putting it out to be. 

As for your $530 PC...  It is still more expensive then X1... And you didn't include time and labor to put it together, not to mention install the OS, all the drivers, and get your app/game library on it.  And outside of the PSU and CPU, you bought a bunch of "crap" parts (Gigabyte MB are crap, the case you chose is like the titanic, ASUS aren't known for the best graphic cards [even though they are using a radeon chip], the keyboard/mouse aren't suitable for gaming) .  And where is the blu-ray drive, ESRAM, and Kinect V2.0?  If you are going to build a gaming PC, please do it right and not out of a bunch of crap that won't even last a year.  PS:  Windows is licensed through the HDD, so to be legal you do have to license a new OS to the computer.

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TIme and labor? You put the PC together yourself and it takes only about a hour to put it together. -.-

Also, my PC has faster RAM, GPU, and CPU. How is it crap? I also included a copy of windows and it still was $5 less than the Xbox One. So how was it more expensive? lol. Oh and if the keyboard and mouse aren't suitable here's a solution, swap them for a cheap $20 xbox controller. 

Honestly do you have any idea what you're talking about? Because it doesn't seem like it.

Well to be honest it is a pretty shitty PC set up... But the aim was to stay in the 500 bucks area.... Yet if I had the choice between that built already assembled and an XB or any console really... I would still go with the console... And a lot of people would.... I have close to 0 interest in PC gaming anymore... Too nerdy for me now.. it was fine until mid college... Now the appeal has faded off... I play the occasional RTS on it and that's it.... No PC can truly satisfy my entertainment needs anymore... Yeah they are more powerful and outperform consoles on everything.. But the practicality,ease of use and set up of the consol outshadows what a PC offers for me...especially at that price point...

Dat sickening denial

That $530 PC, would be massively cheaper when compared to the Xbox One in several years time. You have to pay for online remember.
I can build a PC, Install the OS and all the drivers and software I need within about an hour, it's hardly difficult or time consuming.

As for the parts... Gigabyte motherboards aren't crap, Asus Graphics cards aren't crap either, I have been running three Asus Radeon 7970's for almost 2 years and I had a pair of Asus Radeon 6950's that were 3 years old (Sold, still runs almost everything at max at 1080P) etc'.
And I'll likely be getting three or four Asus Radeon R9 290's.
A horrible motherboard brand would be something like Biostar.

Gigabyte has some of the best motherboards on the market and Asus has some of the best Graphics cards on the market with some of the best coolers too, granted Asus cards don't have the fine grained voltage controls like high-end MSI cards, but they are far from trash.

Optical Drives are last century stuff, PC has moved on from them, Steam is where it's at, I don't have an optical drive in my PC and I've never needed one.

As for Windows being licensed to the Hard Drive? That's completely utterly down right false.
It's tied to your motherboard, all it takes is a phone call to Microsoft and they will untie it.

You also have free alternatives to Windows such as Linux which can run a massive library of games either natively or through WINE or via emulation such as Dos Box.

eSRAM is also not a replacement for large and high-speed GDDR5, lots of fast and large memory is preferable over a fast small chunk of memory, however Intel IGP's have eDRAM if that floats your boat: Hint: It's slower than a Radeon 7850.

And lastly, Kinect works on PC, but al-as, the real innovation is coming with Oculus Rift. - The PC also has 120/144hz 1440P monitors available now, which puts to shame the 720P/1080P/30fps/60fps set-ups that consoles use.
And don't forget the larger game library the PC has, the free online access, cheaper games and more games AND with Steam you can set it to big-picture mode, plug in an Xbox controller, connect it to your TV and it's as easy to use as a console all with better graphics and framerates, mods etc'.