Rumor: Peter Moore to leave MS for EA

From Joystiq ;

Haha , I really wonder it ...

 

Heh, here's an interesting tidbit from MobyGames: 20 years ago Don Mattrick was co-credited for the first Test Drive with Bruce Dawson, who is now the Xbox 360 CPU guru at Microsoft:

http://www.mobygames.com/game/amiga/test-drive/credits

 

Interesting...wonder what kinda of feel/image the new face of X360 will bring now that Peter is gone.....


X360

J Allard = to be hip

Peter Moore = to be refined yet edgeing

Don Matrick = ?

 

I was wondering that. Peter did put forth the human face of the 360. It'll be interesting to see if Mattrick will fill that same role, or move more to the background for the business and strategic side, pushing someone else closer to the limelight.

If Mattrick doesn't fill the "public face" role then I wonder if Major Nelson will move more to the front.

 

Thanks Mr. Moore for sticking it to Sony and Nintendo.
We appreciate the competition and spirit.

We will see you around.

 

Hell, I'm just impressed by the tattoos. I'm sure there were some long discussions into the night about those...

"Oh for goodness sake, Peter! I don't want to have to SEE your job every time we have sex!"



But the guy certainly had style. Hope he does well.

 

They were temporary tattoos LOL...

 

Aww, i'll miss ya Petey (yeah, I was quite the PM fanboy )

I know Don Mattrick is the new replacement, but im hoping to see more Shane Kim coz that guy is awesome

 

I wonder if this is why he was pimping Madden and Rock Band so hard at E3 this year. And practically let an EA game COD4 upstage Halo3.

 

I'd like to see more of Shane Kim. He seems like a really nice guy.

 

[ http://www.joystiq.com/2007/07/17/robbie-bach-and-don-mattrick-talk-to-joystiq-about-peter-moores/ ] ...

 

Wasn't Don Mattrick the one who appear at Sony Press Conference of last year's E3? If so what a coincident.

 

That's ok. Sony is still trying to get a friends list working like Xbox had in 2002.

You can count me one of those guys who like Peter Moore. He did a good job with the Dreamcast launch in NA and I felt that he built the X360 into a pretty solid brand. Every Japanese publisher is now making games for X360. Sure Final Fantasy and MGS are still Sony exclusive, but those are the only third party exclusives Sony has left really. That's an impressive achievement for a console with sub 3000 per week sales in Japan.

 

He did ackomplish alot..

I must say he's definitely a very talented individual who know's how to work his industry (to get it to work for him ) but if there's one thing I wont miss and thats his mouth..

I couldn't watch or read any press conferences or articles where he talked because he just smoked of arrogance.. I really disliked alot of the comments he made regarding the Xbox360 reliability issues and the way he publicly tried to spin every positive press report regarding MS's competition into something that was either irrelevant, didn't take away from MSs offering or just plain negative.. I guess it's all for the stock holders but after a while it did kinda get too much..

I'm glad at least now we'll be seeing some of his fire brewing up on a different battlefield (PE8 vs Fifa, NHL vs 2K's hockey game etc..)

The only problem is figuring out how verbal the new guy is going to be..

In anycase I wish him and his family well and I hope they settle into their new life well..

[pours out some liquor for moore..]

 

CoD 4 is an Activision published game...

 

Are we talking about the same person (or company for that matter)? He's more of a gentleman than most other execs IMHO.

+1

Not before they fire Ken.

Anyways, I think he did a lot for the box / industry so far and how can one not like the Dreamcast guy? Or am I getting old?