GamingVogue writes: Peter Moore is a very well known industry figure and he doesn’t shy away from tough questions.
It feels like the video game console is at a crossroads. With Xbox Series X and S floundering in the ‘console war’, Sony suggesting PlayStation 5 is approaching the second half of its life after missing sales targets, and uncertainty around the release of the Nintendo Switch 2, there is growing concern that the traditional video game console business could be under threat.
It's obvious that MS is leaving the console biz. MS may have tons of money, but that doesn't mean they want to keep losing money on the gaming division to prove a point. Thanks Phil
Good article and this is not a duplicate. The link that @Maximus Prime shared is just a small portion of the full interview. This post is the full interview.
Times are changing quick, the same ol way the industry been is changing. Where people play is changing.
“What I think Phil is doing is setting up some smoke signals that we're thinking very differently”
I’m surprised how slowly Microsoft is moving toward Xbox as a software platform. They usually don’t care so much about upsetting their customers with unpopular changes like they do with every other version of Windows.
This "console market hasn't grown narrative " is overblown. The market has grown just not as fast as say smartphones. But so what? There is still money to be made in the business and just because Microsoft has failed doesn't mean the entire industry is facing sudden collapse. Gaming will be fine, every industry has to go through periods of restructuring. AAA games are made becuase its what attracts gamers the most and is where they spend the most money. (Demand/supply) Microsoft abandoning hardware should have happened years ago, they clearly lost interest at a base level in producing games and/or paying 3rd parties to back during the tail end of the 360 generation. Tired of hearing about the future of gaming, just make great games and/or invest in one's made by other to attract people to your platform.
Peter Moore has revealed how the console wars narrative helped foster a competitive spirit at Xbox.
For money.
And because brand loyalty can help you hold onto a market share without actually having anything new to retain said share of the market.
That era was insane, might be the reason N4G even exists. I still remember Peter Moore would show off tattoos of each exclusive Xbox would steal from Playstation 3. And the N4G community was on fire, each story would get like 300 comments of fanboys fighting each other.
How come that "competitive spirit" never translated into regular production of games? Not even talking quality games just games in general.
There were like 2-3 game droughts during the 360 era alone.
From GI.biz: "As an executive at Sega, Microsoft, and then Electronic Arts, Peter Moore was unquestionably part of the games industry for the better part of two decades. Then he left for the world of sports and the chance to be CEO of his favorite childhood football team, Liverpool FC.
After three years in which Liverpool enjoyed considerable success and a Premier League championship, Moore stepped down and seemingly returned to games with an executive appointment at Unity and a board position for mobile publisher Nifty Games."
"Anything that doesn’t hit that top 20 or 25 finds it very difficult to justify itself, its existence, and you kind of wonder why you did it.”
It's called ART. Though I understand that the game industry is mostly screwed in these regards. Way too expensive of an art form.
Where does this guy think big ideas and success come from? Small places. Then they evolve into the only thing this guy cares about, money.
Thank hell for that 20 percent. Much of the creativity that the 80 percent rips off and commercializes comes from there.
That's why this industry will be not sequels because ts too much about money and new IP's going forward are too big of a risk. Think about it moving forward games will cost 40 plus million atleast the big ones and would you risk that type of money if a return isn't a sure thing?
Whether we like it or not people buy sequels and their favorite franchises that's why there is another Halo triilogy and COD along with new AC games every year. That's the reason god of war and uncharted will get more sequels and prequels.
Sleeping dgs which is a great game sold 160k unites in ts first month and people asked why activision dropped the game and than RE6 which wasn't as good of a game sells 3 millin. Gaming business is very cruel
Every gamer asks for new IP's but than when it launches the same day as their favorite game they choose the sequel and say I will wait for a price drop. Why KOA didn't sell and skyrim sold 10 plus million is beyond me, KOA is an excellent RPG and now that studio is out of business
So in the future when we are blaming the publisher for sequels and no risk taking this is the reason why. They get the blame but we get the bigger part of that blame
Sony and Microsoft are going to have to make game development faster and cheaper if they expect developers to stick with consoles. The media sites and magazines deserve a lot of blame as well. They have consistently raised expectations about how good graphics need to be for videogames, and honestly Xbox 1 was good enough.
This is why gaming sucks lately. Everything needs to be simplified, revolving around guns, humans, and "realism." What happen to the simply fun games? They got tossed aside because publishers rather make money than games people want....
A game like Mirrors Edge is called a failure at EA, yet look at the praise it got from fans, and people wanting more. They don't care. Money doesn't come with it, then who cares right?
this is why I'm hoping Sony and MS open the same door Steam opened and allow lower budget titles on their stores. We will see quality games again.