GP: Gamers love arguing about anything -- console versus console, game versus game. A lot of people are setting up this year as Doom 3 versus Halo 2, a heavyweight showdown. What's your perspective on that? Does that factor in? Do you care?

MS: I guess from a brand perspective, you can look at it as a heavyweight showdown, a big brand vs. a big brand thing. I think when you boil it down, Halo is synonymous with Xbox, and I think Doom is synonymous with PC, although through the success of Tides of War on the Xbox and the fact that we have come out pretty early in saying that Doom 3 is an Xbox title as well, I think we're turning some heads, definitely. And luckily for us in the industry, you can have a heavyweight brand showdown and there doesn't have to be just one winner. What you get is gamers winning, because they can go out and pick up two totally kick-ass games. And you hope that Halo 2 comes out to be a really tight game, and we're going to deliver the best game on the platform as well. I think they're going to be different games -- I think ours is going to look better, definitely. They're going to do things a little differently, we're going to do things a little differently, but in the end, hopefully both games come out and are really good and very successful. That's only good for the industry and it's only good for gamers. And good for us, too, because that means there's that many more people playing games, that many more people buying games, that many more people playing first-person games on the console, which is always going to be a bit of id's bread and butter. Hopefully it's a win-win situation.

It's kind of a funny question. It's like the summer blockbuster movies-you don't look at the lineup of trailers that are coming out for the big summer movies and say "Well, I guess I gotta see X-Men 2 and I can't see this." You don't look at it like that -- it's like "God, I've got Halo 2 coming out, I've got Doom 3 coming out...it's gonna be a fun year. I'm going to have a good time this year playing games."