Cons is that it costs the same as a console that is more powerful, and apart from that are pretty much identical when it comes to the games you can play on them. Even if that difference is small, it still makes no sense to buy a Xbox to play the exact same games in a lower res or lower framerate. Unless, of course, you're willing to overlook playing inferior multiplatform games because you're just more into the exclusives that are on the Xbox.