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Peter Moore Talks PS3, Wii, Portable 360
kukyfrope writes "Peter Moore recently led an intimate round-table discussion at E3 where journalists were allowed to pluck his brain on current industry issues. His comments cover PS3's high-price announcement, downplay rumors surrounding a portable Xbox, and actually admits he would like a Wii! 'Look, it's not partisan; I love what Nintendo is doing. They're in a different space.'"
He's a VP for Microsoft and is pretty much the go to guy for the 36nd Microsofts opinion on the gaming marketplace.
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Peter Moore (Born 1956 in Liverpool, England) is the head of Microsoft's Interactive Entertainment Business division, which includes the Xbox and Xbox 360 game consoles.
Moore holds a bachelor's degree from Keele University, England, and a master's degree from California State University, Long Beach.
After working for Patrick USA, the U.S. subsidiary of the popular French sportswear company, and then Reebok, Peter Moore rose to prominence at Sega, being a heavy figure in the company's North American operations during the Dreamcast era. Moore played a pivotal role in the company's decision to change its business strategy to become a platform-agnostic software publisher. At the time of leaving Moore was president and COO of SEGA of America.
Microsoft hired Moore in 2003 to join the Xbox project, where he has been ever since.
Peter Moore has shown off his Halo 2 and Grand Theft Auto 4 tattoos when announcing the games. Both tattoos are quite real as shown in a GearLive interview.
>I think the day that some smart developer thinks of how to use the Wii controller for a first person shooter is the day that console FPS games like Halo become irrelevant.
there will be at least 2 at launch: Red Steel and Metroid.
What do you mean that Nintendo doesn't have the resources of Sony and Microsoft, and can't afford to take the hit they're taking?
Nintendo has pulled in about a Billion dollars profit every year for the entire last generation; at the begining of this generation it was reported that Nintendo had liquid assets that were greater than 8 Billion dollars. What this means is that Nintendo (if they wished) could have produced the PS3, sold it for $199, and still had a couple of Billion dollars left over to bribe developers to produce exclusive games.
Why hasn't Nintendo done this?
They didn't do this because (unlike Microsoft, and to a lesser extent Sony) they do not believe that it is a sustainable path. Nintendo doesn't believe that it is healty for the company, or the market as a whole, to lose $100+ just to get your system in the door.
but to date no GameCube game has ever impressed me with its graphics compared to the shiniest PS2 and Xbox games.
That's amusing, because if you're impressed with the graphics of PS2 games, you must be fairly easily impressed. I can't think of a single PS2 game that pushed the envelope in terms of graphics, whereas I can list a dozen or more each from the Gamecube and XBox libraries.
The Gamecube hardware is far superior to that of the PS2, no matter how much Sony kool-aid you've been drinking.
--Jeremy
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