IGN- “What do you want to say to the folks who, in light of Quantum Break coming to PC, say ‘There’s no reason to buy an Xbox One anymore if all this stuff is coming to PC?”

Phil Spencer- “Frankly, from a financial perspective, the most cost effective way to go play these games is to own an Xbox One. The graphics card alone is probably 2x what the Xbox – uh, to run at a similar resolution.”

Here’s what a $600 video card can do right now, with a demanding game on high quality at more than 4x the resolution of a standard Xbox One game. This is from my own testing.

So here is the truth. A $600 video card won’t match the quality and resolution of the Xbox One. It will be five times better. In fact, you can build a gaming PC for only $400 that exceeds the quality of Xbox One and PlayStation 4. This isn’t speculation. This isn’t anecdotal. This is fact backed up by science and rigorous testing.

The graphics card inside of that budget PC costs $109, 63% cheaper than an Xbox One, not twice as expensive. It matches or exceeds the Xbox One in visual fidelity and often exceeds it in average framerate. A card twice as expensive as an Xbox One would run games maxed out at 1440p or higher.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2016/03/03/phil-spencer-is-lying-to-xbox-one-users-about-the-cost-of-pc-gaming/#70d48f4b1c7a

I'm no expert on pc gaming but for what I understand is that windows games are not well optimized. that the minimum requirement for those windows 10 games are high enough. What is the cheaper gaming build that you need to play the minimum requirement of gears of war ultimate or quantum break for example?

He probably got that bolded part wrong but overall the most cost effective way to play those games is still the Xbox One.

Yeah it's false. Part of it. “Frankly, from a financial perspective, the most cost effective way to go play these games is to own an Xbox One." is pretty factual. He most likely played into the non-pc-builder crowds lack of understanding.

I think doing this whole Xbox One/PC thing is going to harder on them than they imagined. Questions like these are only the beginning lol.

It's obvious he wanted to say that gaming PC are 2x the cost of Xbox one. But, lost track of what he was saying in the middle of an interview. Hardly, something worth a retraction and internet trying to blow out of proportion.

What an asshole

He's totally correct (although that was probably based on the error on the original recommended requirements for Quantum Break).

The recommended video card for Quantum Break was a NVIDIA GeForce 980 Ti or AMD Radeon R9 Fury X, which cost about $700 (double the cost of an XBox One, which comes with a game and a controller).

Quantumbreak.com has since updated their requirements and moved that spec to their Ultra requirements, and changed the Recommended spec to a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 or AMD Radeon R9 390, which cost about $350.

The internet needs to stop overreacting about silly things.

http://www.pcgamer.com/quantum-break-system-requirements-out-windows-10-required/

So minimum specs is an $83 gpu, recommended $340.
But what do you need to make it look the same as on XBox One.

I was told by a few pc players on here recently that windows games are badly optimised so maybe in that case he's right. But games that release on Steam he's wrong for sure. So I guess we can't jump on him just yet.