DirkDaring pointed out in our forum, along with Louis Wu at Halo.bungie.org, that an unnamed developer from an unnamed company who claims to know what he's talking about when it comes to the XBox has this to say in an article titled Inner Xbox Secrets Revealed at The Inquirer about Microsoft's upcoming console machine and its performance at E3:

The public has yet to see a demo of a native X-Box game, written specifically for the X-Box and its feature set. I can tell you, it pisses all over the PS2. This coming Xmas might be a bit dull for X-Box, but in the long run, the quality of X-Box titles is going to make the PS2, and most PC games, look real sad. I can tell that just by looking at the stuff we're doing where I work, and other companies are doing even more impressive things.

While there's little new information here, and nothing to distinguish this developer from an educated fan who's been following most of the information released so far, it still makes for an interesting read in the slow news void between now and November 8. Most of the article focuses on the differences between XBox and PC hardware, and why PC games won't run on it and vice versa. Still, I'd put money on some clever company figuring out a way to emulate it within a year or so. After all, Connectix did so, making a PlayStation emulator that ran on existing Macintosh hardware, even though the PS1 used a different processor and custom graphics hardware. Meanwhile, the XBox's video gear is at least based on the GF3, and it uses an Intel processor, and that has to make the job of writing an emulator easier.