Pulling hype's plug.

• Position: Circuits - Microsoft's Xbox and Nintendo's GameCube video game systems - Brief Article

Let's play a game of Hype Blaster. Microsoft is pushing its new video-game console, the Xbox, out November 15. Nintendo follows with its GameCube, out three days later. Here's the word.

* Microsoft's hype: "Xbox is going to change video games the way MTV changed music."

MTV brought music from the radio to the TV. The Xbox will take video games from the TV to ... the TV. What will be different are the graphics on the most powerful of all systems.

* Nintendo's...