"Impossible" ports

[Pemalite]

curl-6 said:

Pemalite said:

Well. Half Life 2 can run on fixed function PC GPU hardware (I.E. The very first Geforce GPU). That's a GPU or two generations before the original Xbox. So it's not entirely unsurprising.

And Doom 3's minimum PC requirements is a Geforce 3, so it fits in with the original Xbox.

Weren't their minimum RAM requirements far, far more than the mere 64MB Xbox had?

Google says Doom 3 wanted 384MB minimum and Half Life 2, 1GB.

Indeed. Need to keep in mind though that consoles weren't running a monolithic OS back then though.
These days the DRAM discrepancy is far far far less.