And all I've got to say about the Xbox is its about time the "wait and see" people get with the program. I've been hearing "wait and see" they will release awesome games since the Xbox was released and they never have. Look at Fable, was supposed to come out the spring after the XBox was released. Two years later and no game. Puh-lease.
The other thing all your hardware talkin peeps must recollect is that the XBox was the last system shipped of the 3 present ones. In fact IIRC THe PS2 hit the market 2 years before the Xbox. If you apply Moore's Law, the Xbox should be well over double the processing power of the PS2. Of course the graphics will be better than the other two, but fortunately graphics aren't the only important features of a system. That's why PS2 will continue to be reigning king until the PS3 gets released sometime on '05 (IIRC).
Btw, on a side note, there is a very specific reason that a lot of the great software vendors WONT deal with MS on the Xbox, figured it was worth mentioning.
1. MS has a bad habbit of working a "deal" with a company, then stealing its technology and cutting out of the deal. Then they sink the other company.
2. MS's other bad habbit is eating other companies that they work with.
3. MS has a3rd bad habbit of renegotiating deals with vendors midway through the process and making them worse for their "partner".
I could go on (but its 7AM), but my point by listing these things is that a large number of the small(er) video game vendors won't deal with MS because of its track record of screwing their "partners". That's why you will never see a Final Fantasy on Xbox.
Peace yall.