Peter Moore resigns as head of Xbox
By Ryan Block 
posted Jul 17th 2007 4:18PM
posted Jul 17th 2007 4:18PM
It's hard to call the Xbox 360 anything but a success, but having missed some sales numbers, ringing up an extra unexpected $1b on the corporate card because of warranty issues, and still generally failing to make a profit, it looks like Peter Moore, who we just sat down with a few days ago, has stepped down from his embattled position as the ringleader of Microsoft's Xbox group. Successor to his role is Don Mattrick, who is taking over not just Peter's position as VP of Microsoft's Interactive Entertainment Business, but leading the group (including Games for Windows) entirely. Moore's new job? Prez of EA Sports, down in the SF bay area. Take THAT, Microsoft.
Sony lost their guy, MS losing their guy. What will be the fate of Reggie?
Wow. Engadget interviews him, and now he's gone/fired/quit/moving on/needs time to spend with his family/better job/etc.
Think Engadget could interview Bill Gates too?
Wow! Cya later Pete! That is crazy how fast things move these days. Maybe he can whip up a good Madden football game for a change now.
Bill Gates is already gone from Microsoft.
I don't now who the hell this guy is but holding a 360 with one hand, thats gota hert, those things weigh a ton. He looks like he just found that out.
Maybe Microsoft realized that the Sega business model might not be the best way to go...
Doesn't it seem like poetic justice?
Moore goes from schilling for M$ to schilling for EA.
Almost seem the same doesn't it?
"and remember, Halo 3 lands Sept. 25th...and, well, that's about it...uhm, I'm outta here!"
I wonder what the SEC will have to say about this.
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Uh... now what about the tattoos?
He was upset that Microsoft wouldn't allow anymore tatoos, so he decided he'd go somewhere else to get all the tatoo's he wanted :P
I see a USB powered Laser-Tattoo remover in the xbox 360's future line up.
This is actually really sad for me. I thought that Peter Moore was a great representative and he seemed very genuine and honest.
One of my friends described it best when he said to me that when Moore gave a speech or talked about something it didn't seem like he was trying to force it upon you. Rather, it was like he had something cool and exciting to him that he wanted to share with you.
You mean like that knockout performance he gave at E3, where there was dead silence at the unveiling of the Halo console? Please tell me you're kidding, the guy has no finesse whatsoever.
I completely disagree (well, a camo green console is a dud). The benefit of Moore as a speaker was obvious after the other two slick sales guys who followed him during the rest of the event.
Hey, Im with ya Alex..
I was just gettin to like this guy.. Why.. Oh well..
Now if N can dump Reggie, Id be happy..
He's actually joining EA Sports...
ERTS Electronic Arts: Peter Moore Named President of EA SPORTS Label
Co announced that Peter Moore has joined EA as President of the EA SPORTS Label. Moore joins EA from Microsoft (MSFT) where he served as corporate vice president of the Interactive Entertainment Business in the Entertainment and Devices Division, leading both the Xbox and Games for Windows businesses. Moore begins at EA in September and will report to EA CEO John Riccitiello. Briefing.com note: See 16:12 MSFT comment.
Wow, what a spineless pr*ck. Talking smack about the PS3 then stepping down... Well I don't blame him, he is moving on to bigger and better things (products that work the first time around)
@bethel03 - lol, products that work the first time?! The only "first time" product EA Sports has ever had was in (guessing) 1992 when it launched its first football/basketball/baseball/etc game. From then on its just a re-ejaculation of the same thing (to a non-sports fan anyway).
On another note, i know its kinda corporate procedure, and if i were in their [microsoft] situation, I'd probably do the same. but i find it ironic that instead of being given the chance to learn from mistakes, people are axed...
To stephen:
Guys (and gals) are paid way too much at that level to have a "learning curve". You shouldn't be given chances to screw up at that level and stick around.
Yeah... because anyone who speaks his mind and pursues a career path is a spineless prick, then. Stop thinking of corporations as individuals... it's bad psychology.
after the CE-Oh no he didn't, part XXXVIII: Peter Moore tells Sony it's failing outburst who could've seen this coming
let the fanboy flaming commence
Ya, I'm actually gonna have to agree w/ you on this one, I mean, saying that a competing company is failing, then, just a few hours later saying that your going to resign, that's just bad. Don't get me wrong though, I still love MS.
more like:
CE-Oh No He Isn't
Will he join Ken Kutaragi out in the pasture?
I enjoyed listening to Peter Moore up until Sony released their PS3 and he changed tactics. I own a 360 but it just seemed like he was resorting to Sega vs. Nintendo crap I was sick of 20 years ago.
Guy did a good job, I agree that 360 fanboys sometimes forget that he 360 even now is not profitable to MS and was set back again by crappy hardware costs, but the point is that the 360 is in a position to be profitable in the next few years.
MS, maybe due to this guys lead, got a console out a year ahead of the competition and pushed online services and online gameplay forward and is pushing the industry toward catering to and making a console easy for developers meaning we get more and better games.
Sony churned out some slick hardware but missed the other points.
Overall MS has heated up the competetion making things great for gamers, my hats off to any guy like this that had a part in it.
The Online features were there before the XBox 360. Sure there are some new bells and whistle but nothing amazing.
Was he in charge of the Zune as well? I know that came from the XBox department but not sure if he headed that brick.
What he brought to MS was the childishness of the Sega-BigN days?
Wonder if he is going to scream at the 2K Sports team that they are failing.
next one that should get fired from xbox is major nelson. Don't talk about sony or nintendo when your company can't make a dime and my system keeps dying and you keep lying about it. Great job microsoft make some changes.
Funny how there are two posts, with the same exact text, one after another but from two different people (JGUNZNP and Raymond). In other words, either the sony fanboys are having problems making up original content (just like Sony's games), or Sony's marketing team is having problems making up original content (just like they did with the PG3 screen shots). Either way, [pats JGUNZNP/Raymond on the head] that's ok little boy, at least you tried.
@stephenbratz
No that was me I forgot I was logged in with my name. But the real post is from JGUNZNP double post sorry. Anyways am not way a fanboy I have all three systems am just tired of the big xbox fanboys talking about nintendo and sony when thier company is as bad as the other 2.
next one that should get fired from xbox is major nelson. Don't talk about sony or nintendo when your company can't make a dime and my system keeps dying and you keep lying about it. Great job microsoft make some changes.
Wow. First he takes shots at Sony, steps down from his position at Microsoft and now he heads for a company's division whose main title became a monster thanks in part to a machine that Sony created? Nice.
Nothing personal, just business ;)
Given the high rate of console failures leading to the $1B loss on a console that was supposed to be breaking even by this point, as well as the channel-stuffing and lackluster sales, I think it would be better to rephrase the original sentence as "It's hard to call the Xbox 360 a success". Or "anything but problematic", what have you.
This is rich. First you talk smack about Sony, whom you consider your main competition. Then you resign from your current job to work for a company who makes products for Sony.
I think Microsoft lost a really good leader in Peter Moore. He's not always right but he has a great deal of knowledge that I think was instrumental in the Microsoft Xbox consoles being where they are today. I seriously believe that MS would be in a much worse position without Moore these last few years.
Doesn't Microsoft makes products for Sony? Vaio and SE phones dont run on OSX.
I wonder how the job interview went.
"I see here on your résumé that you headed the division that has yet to make a profit and recently lost an additional billion dollars, likely causing the entire endeavor to be considered a business laughing stock for eternioty."
"Well... uh...:
"I don't need to hear anymore. You're hired. Shhh, but I hate my coworkers."
Aah, like a scene from Dilbert :P
Let's add the fact that he assisted in the Dreamcast downfall.
"It's hard to call the Xbox 360 anything but a success, but having..."
I think you mean "It's hard to call the XBox 360 anything LIKE a success..." or "It's NOT hard to call the XBox 360 anything but a success..." since in fact, the rest of the post goes on to indicate that it is not a success, ergo - it's easy to call the XBox 360 anything but a success.
Of course, depends on how you measure success. They sell more XBox 360s than Sony sells PS3s. Remember that with the exception of the Wii, most consoles are sold at a loss with the idea that the company will make up the loss and even an addition profit from game sales.
As for his stepping down after slagging the PS3 - they're kind of unrelated. The PS3 IS doing badly. That's a fact by any metric - and we've seen such wonderful moments as Sony putting out a press release letting everyone know that the 'shortage' of PS3s is finally over... When everyone went 'Huh? What shortage?' it turned out that they meant 'if the shelves aren't completely stocked, there's a shortage' as compared to the Wii's 'we don't got any to sell ya anywhere' kind of shortage.
In this case, it's more likely that EA offered him a plum job that Microsoft couldn't match. It's often just that simple.
Interesting definition of success: selling each product at a loss and contributing billions of dollars of red to the parent compnay...
it must have been the intro for the halo edition 360 that did him in. it was sad
Hmmm, interesting take everyone seems to be going with the 360 here. Since when is profitability of a console considered "success" by gamers. Have you all forgotten two years ago when you were ramming the Gamecube for being a failure by being in third place by market share, but perhaps making more money for Nintendo then the PS2 did for Sony and the Xbox did for Microsoft?
It was not even a year ago that people were claiming that Nintendo should have bumped up the specs on the Wii to take a loss on it and make up the money elsewhere.
So what is it guys? Market share or profit that you are claiming a success. If you go off your statements of less then a year ago then marketshare = success and I would say then that Peter Moore did a pretty fantastic job taking a console from nothing to the best selling in the U.S. all while arguably pushing the bar up for what online gaming should be for consoles.
In all honesty though does it really matter if the Xbox division ever turns a profit? Microsoft makes more money off of Windows Office, and IE then it knows what to do with. If it can create a halo effect with the Xbox (not the game) like Apple does with the iPod and push the company into the consumer electronics business then does it really matter? In the bigger picture it just pushes the company more and more into the "digital living" provider rather then just a computer provider.
Dude. Do a bit of research. Nintendo didn't make more money on the Gamecube than Sony on the PS2. Nintendo was the first to turn a profit per unit but only for less than a year. Sony outsold both XBox and Gamecube combined. Also Sony had multiple price cuts for the PS2 since the software profits were so high they recovered their lost from it. If you try to spin this and state that the Wii is the same as the Gamecube and the numbers can be combined then you should know that the PS2 is still selling.
Also MS makes no money on IE. Apple makes a ton of money on the iPod Hardware and iTunes is able to sustain itself.
The failure in the XBox line is Peter Moore and whoever QA'ed the hardware. He had nothing to do with the success of XBox Live or Halo and those are the two main driving forces for the 360.
At this point in the console wars... All of them are dead in the water. XBox 360 is wait for Halo. PS3 is waiting for something good... Metal Gear? Wii needs to continue with innovative titles but it's starting to see the typical Big N rehash. Same crap is occurring in the portable market as well.
Everyone's talking Sony Sony, but no one has mentioned how he did the same thing at Sega, right? Put out big promises and then didn't fulfill. I'm not saying the 360 is a flop like the Dreamcast was, I'm just saying I never expected anything less from him when they announced it in the first place.
Sega CD sealed the fate of the Dreamcast before it even came out.
Peter moore is the person that brought us the 360.
hats off ... were gonna miss u.
*Conspiracy Theory Alert*
Could it be that Microsoft is injecting a higher-up into a company known more for making good PlayStation games? Conversation goes like this:
Peter: I'm leaving to head up EA.
Steve: Hmmm, ok. Lock the 360 into a few games or I'll crush you like a gorilla.
Peter: Yess..yesss sirrr...
I wouldn't even call it a conspiracy theory - it's a fairly common business practice in other industries.
For example, in business consulting, everyone signs a contract stating that they will not leave their consulting firm to work for a client. Many (if not most) consultants do, and the firms don't have a problem with it. This is because the former consultants are very likely to hire the consulting firm they worked for to do major projects.
I wouldn't be surprised if EA developed a closer relationship with xbox. I'm sure much of the gaming industry is about relationships.
Hmmmm. "It's hard to call the Xbox 360 anything but a success" --- losing billions of dollars, making a shoddy product where as many as 1 in 3 fail out of the box, getting your clock cleaned by the Wii in the marketplace -- I think it's hard to call the Xbox 360 anything but a failure.
The Wii is not cleaning the 360's clock. These comments are getting more annoying by the second. 360 is a failure, praise the Wii and PS3 BLAH BLAH BLAH.
The 360 is not that far behind the Wii. The 1 in 3 failure rates are made up comments crap that has spread like wild fire. Between myself and friends I can account for 10 360's that have no hardware failures. I will agree they are higher than normal, but anything above 10% is a stretch. The question should be why do so many work if there is a "design flaw?" Please don't tell me its because I never turn my 360 on either. I use it as a Media Center extender daily, play games, etc.
If the failure rate was as high as we like to pretend it would cost a lot more than 1 billion to ship and create packages, pay repair techs, pay customer service reps, maintain service centers, and resend consoles if there was 4 million broken consoles. I would think 4 million console owners would be able to do a better job organizing to show the problems. It is because the other 90% percent of us aren't on the internet posting in a frenzy about how our 360 works.
Also, Microsoft wrote off 1 billion dollars, that doesn't mean it will actually cost that much. Since when did a company get smacked around so bad for adding a three year warranty! I don't see anyone else standing by their products like that, defective or not.
The Wii is beating both the PS3 and the 360 in terms of popularity, but the 360 is within striking distance of the Wii in total hardware sales November 06- June 07, which cannot be said of the PS3. Add in total sales and the 360 is clearly dominant with the extra year. In terms of game sales there is no comparison with the Wii and PS3 well behind during any time frame.
The 360 certainly seems like a qualified success. I can't imagine any other companies getting in the console game right now that would be doing nearly this well.
*ending reality rant now*
@Evan
Dude the XBox had a year head start and the under-powered but creative Wii is out selling it.
@Evan
Are you serious? - All 10 of the 360s you and your buddies have are still working so the problem isn't real?! Where do you get your 10% number. Wishful thinking isn't the same as dealing with real facts.
Microsoft estimates that they will have to spend $1,150,000,000 to fix defective XBox 360s. That's an awful lot of money - think about it - over $1 Billion!!
I do agree with you about Microsoft deserving Kudos for standing behind their product. They should also be criticized for shipping a poorly built / designed product.
"It's hard to call the Xbox 360 anything but a success"
"ringing up an extra unexpected $1b on the corporate card because of warranty issues, and still generally failing to make a profit"
So what is it Engadget - a sucess or a failure?
What is it with 360, PS3, Wii. I don't own any of them, my friends have all three spread between them. The Wii even makes my mom smile and look a bit stupid. Its small white and uses motion sensors or something, the graphics are worse then my PC. The 360 has bits everywhere, big things off the plug, looks like my old Tiny PC and the games I've played are at best ok. The PS3 looks good and the two games I've played Motor Storm and Resistance (I think they must be the only two games they do) did make me sit up and wonder how they did stuff. With this in mind I did watch most of the E3 stuff to try and get up on this. Looking at it from my point of view (I no nothing only what I'm shown) there seemed to be a lot of games coming out for the PS3 and 360 but the developers seemed much more interested in talking about the versions for PS3. The few best looking games Killzone 2, Metal Gear Solid 4, Little Big Planet arn't on the 360. I've read a bit about the spec of these consoles and now I think I understand why the developers seem to like the PS3, its from the future, and it sounds like developers have many, many years of learning to push the hardware even part of the way. With the 360 interviews I get the feeling developers have pushed as far as they can with what they’ve got.
My conclusion is that Microsoft has got a lot of money the same as sony but the sony lot seem genuinely excited about the future and the Microsoft lot look like the bloke at our local market selling stuff that ain't guna last. I think this Peter Moore is a very clever man, I think he watched the same stuff I did from E3.
@ ANT
Let me get this straight... youve never owned any of these consoles, and yet you feel it nessecary to comment about whats going on with them since you watched a couple hours of E3 coverage on G4??? I bet you jump right in line with what the news says too dont ya?
In my opinion yes, the coverage was skewed towards sony. Why you ask?? Because sony needs some games or else that console will fail. I just sold mine cause Im sick of waiting. The pathetic launch lineup doesnt justify 500 or more dollars. Also, Xbox has tons of exclusives coming out. A little game called Halo 3 is easily gonna be the biggest game of the year. Madden is gonna run at 60 FPS on the xbox, not even on the PS.... sounds like the developers made a better version on the so called lackluster hardware. Also as for great looking games on the 360 maybe you missed Bioshock, Mass Effect, GTA IV, Turok, or Unreal that will be coming to the 360 in the coming months... or maybe you just overlooked them on purpose?? Dont write if you dont know what youre talkin about. have a good one.
People do get worked up about this stuff. It's like road rage without the car, well, maybe not that bad. I don't own a lot of things (including most of the stuff on this website) but I like to talk about what I think of them, from what is shown to me, I thought that's what commenting was all about.
I've heard that much about these consoles over the years I feel like I was part of the design team. Having played these consoles I find a natural interest in where this stuff is going, (lets be honest you aren’t ever going to better the Amstrad 64k with colour monitor play Sorcerer). I have seen most of the trailers at E3 mostly because there's no big event movies at the cinema this year, I need my hype fix. My personal conclusion (based on my own (probably bad) taste) is/was that (mostly) stuff I saw for the PS3 appealed to me more than that of PC 360 or Wii and games that were for multiple platforms just simply looked better on the PS3 trailers. I don't know about sales figures or exactly how to build these things from scratch or who's better than who, But, If I was this Peter Moore and you said this is the best we got after however many years in production/development and then i saw some of the other stuff at E3 I be thinking I needed a change.
Something is fishy about this. First Robbie selling his stock in MS, then Peter resigning?
probably he had to step down because in the Engadget interview he said that he loved the Wii ;-)
@ Joe
Perhaps MS is going to bite the dust and all the higher ups are getting wise and future-proofing their careers? I mean with lackluster Vista sales, losing $1 Billion on warranty and the like, just as thought.
Since when are Vista sales lackluster?
Peter Moore probably left to take a better job because he did a good job with Xbox. Ken Kutaragi(sp?) stepped down because of how porrly he did with the ps3. Two totally different reasons. Stop being fanboys and look at the facts.
um Mr. Moore, you worked for Sega, now you go to EA!? The evil of all evils. remember when you had visual concepts under the sega house and you were fighting EA. If Microsoft is selling your soul, than joining EA is damning it for eternity.
but good luck, but i still hope EA goes bankcrupt.
Do you really blame EA for refusing titles to the Dreamcast after what happened with the Sega CD? Lets not forget Sega had not one, but two colossal console failures.
You ask anyone who actually works in the industry, and they will tell you EA is a bunch of pricks. Worst publisher out there with dealing with thier employees. I never worked there but had many friends and they all left with a bad taste in thier mouth.
Everyone always forgets that the people doing the presentations like he did was probably planned by someone else. He may have even realized that the presentation was going to suck but had no time to change it.
He isn't leaving because the Xbox 360 is "failing" nor doing anything wrong. He is simply making a business move. The head of EA Sports is a huge job which has a lot of power and much more money. It is like moving from being a traveling PR head in one company to a cushy executive job where you are the boss and make your own hours...etc.
....No to mention I doubt many you have seen EA's headquarter....They have pools,gyms,drom like room,arcades,loads of free stocks with a 15%+ discount beyond that.......Not to mention a $60,000 starting salary for an entry level worker.....I would take the job.
Not to mention, He could be seeking the President of EA overall job?
WE WANT J. ALLARD BACK!!!!! ***cries***
He looks like he's about to bust out a "wicked karate move".
Microsoft people always look crazy in pics on Engadget like the famous Balmer shot
He was indeed the RINGleader.
You guys crack me up. That's why I keep coming back.
he was fired for his Rock Band performance
The whole rock band presence seems fishy now (Published by EA). It was really hyped up by Microsoft.
:(
This makes me sad, Peter Moore was my cheerleader. He was steering the 360 in the right direction, I don't know how his replacement could do a better job.
Don't buy now, there is something VERY dodgy going on at the XBox division. Last week shareholders were caught dumping shares, today Peter Moore quits.. Xbox division is $7billion in debt, and never made a cent..
I wouldn't be suprised if Gates/Balmer have told them to jack it in.
Good luck, EA Sport ^__^
you'll need it.
And so it begins! Like I had said before. TO much to soon and to much money for games and systems. Leads to, no sales to many problems and no ones is buyen enough becasue of HIGH prices! HAHA! Back to the fail of atari days! HAHAH I love it!
Am I the only one that sees that the worst part of this is that the guy taking his spot used to be the pres of EA, the most evil, game and depeloper destroying publisher in the buisness?
I think it's a win win for both companies; in my opinion he did a great job with the 360, I own all 3 systems, and the 360 is the only one I use every day. The only people that should worry is the sony fan boys, ea can survive without the ps3 but can sony survive without madden??? All the EA Sports game will run at 60 frames per second on the 360 this year, which makes them the best versions to get, and now you get a Microsoft guy as president...
I hope he isnt biased and makes all EA games Xbox exclusive... hehe...
He's probably going to make alot more money at EA Sports. I can't imagine they fired him, but then again they seem to have shoved the bald guy under the rug (whatever his name was, I forget, but we used to like him remember?)
We'll miss you petey ;_;
Yeah, he will make EA also lose billions and billions of dollars...
The biggest success of the XBox is that it proves that MS fanboys will put up with just about anything from this firm. Now what does this remind me of...?
I have to hate to say it... but without Peter Moore, the XBOX Division just lost one of their most commanding generals.
Sadly enough, I actually liked the dude... just was what you'd want for a product, enthusiastic and seemingly dedicated.
But with that one dude dropping all of that MS stock and Moore leaving, something is wrong in XBOXland... something seriously wrong.
poor ea i personally never liked xbox and with a 33% failure rate it shows what kind of product microsoft puts out (but i do prefer them over apple any day) but anyways i think this will just ruin EA. They were doing fine on their own. He will probably put out another half asses product now.
I can see the headlines now
EA Games seem to have some red ring on the cds that stop them from working lol
Is it me or is the 360 starting to sound like the dreamcast. First dude sells his stock to cash out so to speak then peter moore leaves washing his hands of this mess. The 360 may be ok for now but remember the dreamcast started well too before peter moore and benard stolar left the it tanked does this mean the same is in store for the 360 hope not but would not be suprised. Microsoft dropped the ball by releasing a faulty design that constantly breaks. I feel peter left cause he knows its bs and that the band aid warrenty is bs as well. Could if be a recall is in the works thats why dude cashed out and petey boy left?
ahhhh... .it's burning hot!!!
This could be a move to secure exclusive console rights of Madden games for the 360 since as president of EA Sports he would have that authority but the SEC would be all over that move. Its not like you would have to connect the dots if that happenned.
Headline: "New EA Executive signs exlusive agreement with prior company for current company" I don't think that woudl go over very well.
If that is not the case then the XBOX division could be going down in flames. I found out something interesting. There were no 360's in sotck at a few of my local stores. I found it a little odd. Turns out they were sent back to Microsoft and they weren't recieveing any new shipments until later in August. It could be a sign that Microsoft is quietly recalling consoles from the stores so they will not be sold. That way defective consoles that will need to be replaced won't make it out of the store.
Somethign really funny is going on at Microsoft. First Bill steps down from daily dealings, an executive sells a whole lot of his stock, and the executive of the gaming division leaves. These are not the signs of a company in good health. "but Microsoft is so cash rich", no they are paper rich. A major blow to Microsofts stock will dry up the reserves. Vista sales are ok but that is only due to sales to manufacturers for new systems, sales of the new Office are not that good, a lot of server software sales were lost a while ago, major computer manufacturers start to offer Linux as an option, and two divisions of the company spent billions on product development only to lose billions more.
Major companies after WWII have around a 20-30 year lifecycle. Look at AT&T, IBM, Westinghouse, The Big Three. Now companies can come back but the big ones do fall and they fall hard. AT&T is reclaiming its former glory by being bought up by what once was a tiny subsidary after the breakup. The biggest computer company in the world fell from the top in the 80's so Microsoft can too.
i thinkk you have the facts reversed. EA sports got a MSFT exec.
im kind of a 360 fanboy, (NOT MSFT) and my 360 just died last week. it took over an hour on hold to get to a tech support 'agent' that i had just a little trouble understanding. anyway, im going to compare the 360 to the dreamcast in saying that the dreamcast died partially in the facct athat the console didnt have dvd palyback capability. the 360 dosent have a hd format player withpit the use off a 200$ dollar attachment. that seems like a mistake to me. also i feel that the thing holding consoles back now is the gpus. there is ALOT more power in the cpu in comparison to the gpu on the two consoles targetign the core gamer. and nintendo made the right decion in the wii. they got beat pretty good with there last two consoles. it was the right decision with the wii in that they reallya rent competing for the core gamer, as much as they are bringing new players into the gaem. that is going to be good for evetry body in the end.
No he is correct, Peter Moore's replacement is an ex-CEO from EA.
It's a difficult time for the video game industry. We've seen Mr. Playstation himself, Ken Kuranagi go and now Moore. Well, Moore WAS inticed with $1.5m to go to EA and a job closer to his family... Ken was given the choice between a Samurai style honourable death or the boot out of Sony. Which was a shame, but something I'm sure Sony wont regret...
I guess the fact that you can download over 200 films and thousands more TV episodes is meaningless (a good chunk in HD resolution) ? All this talk of Blu-Ray and how many movies are out there ? How much do they cost ?
You can rent a HD movie on xbox live for around $5 for a two week rental and 24hr viewing period. The future is downloadable rentals, not $30 plastic discs.
The dude is a clown and shouldn't be allowed to run anything above a fruit & vegetable stand. He destroyed Sega with the utterly unprepared Dreamcast launch and now he whacked MS for 1 billion USD due to lack of planning? He spent more time do the talking head bit in magazines rather than make sure the hardware actually worked correctly each time. People like Peter Moore are why businesses go under....maybe he should resurrect Atari
all i know is that this is the guy who is responsible for *windows for gaming w/ silver/gold pass* (another product that is useless and trying to cash/steal from other 3rd party vendors) he's just another person who's corp savvy and that's all EA needs....
Lol some guys said "Now he'll make EA lose Billions of dollars", lol he's taking EA out from the inside!
ok,first of all of the next gen systems so far have there various issues(no matter how much each of the systems fanboys and girls hate to admit it.the xbox may be a great system with a lot of games but it also has a high failure rate and is not profitable to microsoft(at the moment).The wii is very innovative and fun but there ar a lack of really great games for it to keep you from getting bored after a couple weeks.sony has putsome amazing power into ps3 but it is much to expensive to apeal to the casual gamer and it lacks really great titles to keep people interested(much like the wii)
if you look at all these pros and cons about the system you would probably see that the xbox,despite all its cons, is probably the best system on the market at the moment for those of you that really care about having great games.the ps3 and wii can however change this with a little bit of care towerds th games they ar releasing.
The 360 has been riddled with more hardware issues than any other widely released console in history. The guy should step down.
What's with all the jumping ship lately?
Shame to see him go before he could do any real lasting damage like he did with SEGA.