Joystiq interviews Peter Moore
The problem with interviewing somebody like Peter Moore, and the reason he does so many interviews, is precisely because his jobs it to stay on point and focus his responses. Some of the comments on my post about Dan Hsu's interview lauded his efforts to hold truth to power, and I certainly don't begrudge him that tactic. I might not agree that it was a "shot across the bow" so much as a gnat in the face, and question the presentation of the interview, but I am hopeful that more interviews succeed in pinning down the circuitous marketing-speak the video game industry excels at.
Joystiq's interview with Peter Moore at CES finally went up yesterday; though not intentionally confrontational, it manages to be direct and effective, and they walked away with some notable statements from Moore:
[Sales have] been almost exclusively for the Premium SKU for the Xbox 360. We predicted that and put retail levels in accordingly.
I mean, first of all, Sony’s a great company. They’ve come off two spectacular generations of consoles. You never underestimate the power of your competition. The only thing you can do, the only thing you can control, is your ability to execute flawlessly with your own product...
You don’t think they’re not going to sell out of PlayStation 3s, do you? You think that if I could create a piece of IP so that PlayStation 3s would arrive at Best Buy and they’d sit on the shelves? Come on, it’s not going to happen.
