It will be interesting, but I think microsoft's running too fast to get a jump on the market, and they may end up with the next Dreamcast (Not saying the Dreamcast was bad... it just could have matured better with some more development to be clearly superior to the PS2, as opposed to being only marginally better in some respects). Everyone knows the only reason the XBox really survived were because of it's "killer apps" of Mechwarrior, the Halo series, Dead or Alive, and Ninja Gaiden. Notice that only 2 game studios are involved here... The playstation has Tecmo, SquareEnix, Polyphony, Capcom, Sony's in house studios, and many other qualified and talented PS2 primary or PS2 only developers. Unless MS can convince many of these developers to jump the profitable ship, things will be tough for their console... that's why Halo 2.5 is rumored to be a launch title... it's the only thing that could make it sell in the figures they need...