Heh..."Halo" will eventually be out on PC anyway. Developers have already said that X-Box games translate quickly for the PC, considering, really, the X-Box is all PC hardware.
Wanna know the guts of the X-Box? Pentium III 733 MHz processor, a modified GeForce3 250 MHz graphics processor built into the motherboard (which is actually modified from a pre-existing PC motherboard), and 64 Mb 200 MHz DDR RAM. Aside from that GeForce3, my own computer is faster. I've seen the screenshots / movie clips for "Halo" and I've seen screenshots / movie clips for games on GameCube. X-Box doesn't look nearly as impressive, and it looks like that game could very easily have run on the N64, had it not been impeded by the cartridge limitations on N64.
I will be waiting to see who wins the initial rounds of this war, but my bet is on Nintendo.
Melon
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"He had lived through an age when men and women with energy and ruthlessness but without much ability or persistence excelled. And even though most of them had gone under, their ignorance had confused Roy, making him wonder whether the things he had striven to learn, and thought of as 'culture,' were irrelevant. Everything was supposed to be the same: commercials, Beethoven's late quartets, pop records, shopfronts, Freud, multi-coloured hair. Greatness, comparison, value, depth: gone, gone, gone. Anything could give some pleasure; he saw that. But not everything provided the sustenance of a deeper understanding." - Hanif Kureishi, Love in a Blue Time