Peter Moore Talks MS, 360 issues, PS3 price-cut & EA

When Next-Gen met face-to-face with Peter Moore just a few days ago, they didn't realize he'd be going software-only. In one of his last interviews as a Microsoft exec, he talks defects, missing forecasts, the supposed PS3 non-price-cut and much more...

[Shadow Flare]

he should tattoo a life-size sim of himself across his entire body

haha someone disagreed with my idea. Don't worry, im pretty sure its safe

[Bill Gates]

I think Peter had just about enough of Sony putting him in his place....HAHAHAHHAHA

[ALI G]

do you always have to post "HAHAHAHHAHA" with all the crap you write ???

You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.
Dave Barry
US columnist & humorist (1947)

[razer]

Now that was funny!! hahah nice one SF.

[Babylonian]

Will he look different towards the PS3 after he is resigned from Microsoft?

@idontcare
You don't know what goes on in peoples minds. I expect him to be a professional too. But that's why I'm curious, will he make other statements regarding the PS3 status or will he have a different view on it.

[felidae]

what a question? do you think at EA he says: "Oh no, the ps3 is so bad because of this and that" ??

he's a professional .. of course he will look different at the ps3 from now on.

[Cupid-Stunt]

Hehehee. Sony fanboys will now jump on the idea that moore will surport their blu-ray player. Yerr its NOT going to happen.

Cheers.

[Scythesean]

if he's paid enough he will, it's all about the money. He will come out and bash the 360 is the pay was good enough.

[BISHOP-BRASIL]

Money or a fire threat.

If it comes to the interests of EA in the future to support BD, I don't think Moore will come in the way.

[Bordel_1900]

EA Sports whatever.

I don't care about sports titles and least of all the ones from EA Sports.

King kong could be head of EA Sports and I wouldn't care.

[Leathersoup]

King Kong is the head of EA Sports?!?! We're all gonna die!!! ;)

[narnnking7]

Leathersoup, I think we'll all be okay with King Kong heading EA Sports as long as we don't get in the way of his touchdown run. Don't worry. :)

[CodeMonkey]

hey bill gates,

check out www.lemonparty.org

[Mr VideoGames]

i think Microsoft will be even stronger in the Gaming industry now, soon Microsoft will be the Leading Brand, Bill Gates has plenty of Money to do it with too, BUT THATS JUST ME

VaeVictus yes i do cause if you keep thinking the Red Rings of Death is really that common you obviously have never had a 360, because i have had my 360 since launch and yet i never had a Problem with it so this little problem with the Design not the Hardware are Minor, SONY IS STILL GETTING BEAT BY NINTENDO AND MICROSOFT and still you Sony FANTARDS shoot your mouth off

Note: Sony FANTARDS may i remind you who your a Fan of LMFAO!!! (Watch Video)

[VaeVictus]

Moore leaving the sinking SS Red Rings of Death makes you think that the 360 will be stronger? Fantard.

[sadiq]

xbox fans may i remind you, who was embarrassing themselves this e3? who the hell gives a damn bout the past, its all about the present and future

[jtmill07]

There is one thing that gets me about the 360 THREE RED LIGHT problem. Is Xbox NOT being able to talk about it. I mean come on is it that hard to say what's wrong or is it that BAD to say what's wrong with it. Because everyone knows there's a problem. I just want to know what it is????? I'm sorry I don't like being told my 360 might crash and nobody we'll tell me WHY. TO ME THAT'S HIDING SOMRTHING THAT I FEEL I NEED TO KNOW...............

[Bordel_1900]

This is from the next-gen interview with MS Peter Moore:

Moore insists that the billion-dollar figure is “all that we should worry about.”

“We’re not going to say to the world what issues we have.”

No word on design changes to the Xbox 360 hardware, either. Moore finds no reason to go “full open kimono on this stuff.” What we do know is that Microsoft found that failures were caused by a design issue, not a manufacturing issue, and the company had to “engineer around” the problem. Our curiosity continues, and according to Moore, is apparently unwarranted.

[SlippyMadFrog]

The reason why the RROD happens is because the motherboard is overheating, causing it to bend which breaks the soldering points on the board. They are going to fix this buy applying better heat sinks and the new 65nm chips. Mystery explained :)

[felidae]

i hope it doesn't hurt MS/360.

i always liked him - but not the last days where he had nothing else to do but bashing Sony.

EA spent their money very well.

[gunnerforlife]

hope he enjoys hes time at EA i think it was a bad corrier choise to leave MS especially when u have such a high position there.

[i rule]

madden exclusive for the 360!

[MikeGdaGod]

funny

[tomfoolery]

Moore has had the Sony thorn in his paw since I can remember.This will affect the PS3 negatively whether you believe it or not.Just wait......
......................you Sony guys know how to do that.

[Leathersoup]

There's no way that Peter Moore is going to be anti-Sony at EA. If that were the case they wouldn't hire him.
There's no way that EA would hire someone who would be out to hinder 1/3 of their market (Just based on there being three consoles not a researched figure).
I happen to own a 360 and I love it, but I'm not about to disregard Sony's ability to make a good console or Peter Moore's integrity or professionalism.

[kevin1122]

Some of you fanboys are funny. it was moore's job to bad mouth his competition when he was working at microsoft. Now that he works at EA he doesnt care about working with sony. some of you fanboys are funny, it is all business.

[HaKeRsCanRotINHEL]

Hope M$ learns their lesson but if they like wasting their money I'll take some! 8D

[rowdy 1]

Big talk from someone who jumped ship. What a BEEEiiitch.

[the_round_peg]

Looking at all the recent news that've been released, it seems that there's an internal power struggle going on inside the Microsoft Entertainment and Gaming Division right right now.

[FreedomReign]

Quick what are the lottery numbers?
When wil Google stock split?
Tell me now!

[rayzorn]

im wondering if microsoft kinda pushed moore out the door. they probably needed a scapegoat for the 1 billion dollar red ring. i wonder if they forced it on him and got rid of him to save face. alot of times when something goes wronge in big companies, they put it on one person to make it look they they are changing things around. im not sure this is the case here, but i have heard of things like this.

[artman]

what is his position again? why pay so much money for someone that bashing a wrong console??? let see what he can do on EA

[BISHOP-BRASIL]

If just EA spends as many money in develop games as they do paying executives, maybe they can do something better than FIFA... ¬¬

I just can hope that in EA, don't matter if for himself or for EA work-way, Peter can do better when asked about their games and strategies than bash Konami and 2K Sports...

[JCITY]

why is this dude still talking....their is a reason you resigned!!

[ShiftyLookingCow]

I am waiting for the day when Peter will come for EA on stage during one of Sony's events. It will be something to watch.

[the_round_peg]

Key statistics for Sony vs. Microsoft - 2006 fiscal year:

Sony: http://finance.yahoo.com/q/...
-Market Cap = US 51.65 Billion
-Revenue = US 67.78 Billion
-Profit = US 15.86 Billion <= this matters more than revenue
-Debt = US 8.96 Billion (a large chunk of Sony's revenue goes to refinance debts and making interest payments every year.)
-Cash = US 4.30 Billion

Compared to:

Microsoft: http://finance.yahoo.com/q/...
-Market Cap = US 295.81 Billion (6 times of Sony!)
-Revenue = US $44.28 Billion
-Profit = US 36.63 Billion <= this matters more than revenue
-Debt = US 0 (No debt!)
-Cash = US 25.48 Billion (Do you see how much cash Microsoft has?)

[Lowtax]

The thing is; when EA ports a game to the PS3 they do the least coding they have to to get it onto the platform. Thus making it a doodoo game.

[Lowtax]

Hang yourself.

[Lowtax]

You stupid rustsearch cuntgreaser.

Do you just type in market shares? Like do you even temper your post with moderate intelligence? I'm no Harvard grad but let me just make a speculation here.

So.....

The 360 was released a year and some change ago correct? Thus giving them a considerable headstart on the "next-gen" market share. A temporary monopoly do to the enormous success of the amazing title gears of war and third part non-exclusives such as Oblivion, Condemned, so forth so on. Now then;

By default since they've had time to make nothing but money off of their sales and are only facing competetors market sales until very recently well.......I don't even know why I need to explain this really I mean it's not exactly like I look down at my wang and am stunned when there's a tent from the pornsnax. =/

[SlippyMadFrog]

I don't like your attitude. Not Sony nor Microsoft have began making profit off the next-gen systems. This means that although Microsoft had a head start, they still not benefiting from it. The PS2 was way more profitable than the Xbox so that pretty much overrides the Xbox360 head start. Those figures that ktchong gave is for the company as a whole and not only the games division. There is nothing wrong with those figures that ktchong gave. If you can't handle it, just walk away. =/

[JasonPC360PS3Wii]

For the Droids who live in a fantasy world and think thier sh!t don't stink. Electronic produts "Droids" are never 100% just as Sony with it's batteries and burned out disc drives for the PS2. If you can name "one" electronic product with 100% success rate I'll eat my own sh!t.

“In our lives we say we’re going to be in a certain place a year from now in a lot of stuff— weight, fitness, quality of marriage—and sometimes it works out and sometimes it doesn’t.” Truth

He is right about PC being unorganized, and in a decline. Hate it all you want PC fans but I'm a PC fan to and I know it's true.

"Many people expected that Microsoft would cut the price of the Xbox 360 last week. Despite expectations, that didn’t happen. “I expect my hair to grow back, but things just don’t happen because I want them to,” Moore says. He adds that Xbox 360 is in a leadership position, and with that position comes the luxury of not having to react to what competitors do, including Sony." LOL SNAP!

"That is evidenced by the sales of the PlayStation 3. I’m feeling that the publicity around the pricing adjustment is going to drive some sales but Sony’s tracking 20,000 PS3s a week, which is not very good…. We’re doing somewhere in the region of double to two-and-a-half times that.” OUCH! I Quoted all this just incase Droids refuse to read the interview.

[Lowtax]

LOL O NOEZ! Sum1 awn du N4G forums doesnt like my attitude :[ I guess I won't be getting an invitation to their birthday! Dude I heard it was gonna be megatight yo, there was gonna be pin the tail on a farm animal.

No.

No they are NOT valid and yes yes I am well aware that it is NOT the ps3 or 360 sales you spunklick. If it was the individual sales then it would say ps3 or 360.

Microsoft does more than produce xbox cuntknock, as does sony, but sony on the other hand had to cut its profits by making a 1k machine as oppose to a peice of dookiesnax 77% failure rate console.

Bro I'm so sorry you don't like my attitude, gosh darn it im just gonna walk away because I cant handle the leet.

AAAAH ITS TOO MUCH, I CANT HANDLE IT AAAAAH MY FACE! :[

Oh wait it turns out I'm fine. NO ONE MAKES MONEY OFF OF A SYSTEM TURDRINGER YOU MAKE MONEY OFF OF LICESNSING AND ROYALTIES WTF Jeeeeesus just walk away rofl just walk away bro, its cool if you cant handle it just walk away. Go back to school.

[Lowtax]

Lets revamp your post ok here goes

I don't like your attitude.(LOOOL O NOEZ) Not Sony nor Microsoft have began making profit off the next-gen systems. (They never will, their games draw income.) This means that although Microsoft had a head start, they still not benefiting from it.(O RLY?????) The PS2 was way more profitable than the Xbox so that pretty much overrides the Xbox360 head start. (No nubstick, it doesn't. Microsoft produces a little thing called Windows? Maybe you're using it?) Those figures that ktchong gave is for the company as a whole and not only the games division. (YOU SIR ARE A MASTER OF OBSERVATION, JOIN YOUR LOCAL POLICE DETECTIVE SERVICES.) There is nothing wrong with those figures that ktchong gave.(Except they're a year ago?) If you can't handle it, just walk away.(Aight you're right, I'm gonna go play DotA, later toolbag,) =/ <Mad props on the emocon, nice touch.