This is pretty shocking news, especially right now. I remember him saying at one point if 360 wasn't a profitable venture by 2008 he'd be out of a job. I'm guessing the system failures did his plan in.
I'm guessing that EA's offer could have had a little to do with it as well. So right now his potential earnings at EA over the next four years are: -$962,500 a year salary. -A once off $1,500,000 signing bonus. -$4,260,000 in EA shares That's not a bad deal at all. Apparently Major Nelson is going to have an interview with Peter Moore up later today.
That's because he oh-so-desperately wants to see the 360 fail and his precious little PS3 live on. Unfortunately, were he grounded in reality, he'd realize that the 360 is the one with the foot in the door, and the PS3 is the one busy almost falling down the stairs. See, people don't get fired a lot, especially when, ultimately, they led the charge in bringing about a remarkably successful product. Instead, EA pays them ridiculous amounts of money to go join a staff that doesn't have thousands of neckbeards breathing down their necks over every little hiccup. No, instead he gets the joyous praise of frat boys who just play Madden. Perhaps not a very well-regarded audience, but they're very easy to please.
Oh, I don't know. PS3 is doing well in Japan, X360 is doing shitty. X360 is doing well in N. American, PS3 is doing meh. If it weren't for Microsoft's 1 year headstart, they could very well be tied right now with console sales.
Coulda woulda. It didn't launch a year earlier so it doesn't really matter anymore what the industry could be like now if they had. For the record though I still think that five years from now the PS3 will have sold the most hardware units.
You know, the thing with Sony is this: they have a great little MP3 player that I had a good long look at. And then I read that for no reason at all, it won't play MP3 but only their own ATRAC format. Which I know and loathe from the days of NetMD when I bought a very expensive MD recorder just to realize that no, in fact, it wouldn't play MP3s as advertised but only converted ones. The brain-bug Sonicstage software probably got an update since then but the shock from back then still sits deep. Why are they doing something like that in 2007? And not to speak of their arrogance, development right over the customer's heads and extreme hypocrisy.
I like Peter Moore.. but really don't have a stake in this. Not sure how this will pan out, can only wait and see.
