"Without Halo, the Xbox would have gone the way of the Dreamcast or Saturn," says Epic Games' Cliff Bleszinski.
I'm still mad about Microsoft buying Bungie and making Halo: A, an Xbox exclusive; and B, a title that was rushed to production. Not to mention killing off the Myth line, since nobody does RTS on consoles. And at the very best making Bungie games Xbox exclusives for all time and at the very worst killing off the creative spark at Bungie that made them an interesting developer. And generally sucking. I guess buying Bungie was a smart move on the way to global Microsoft hegemony, though.