Video Interview: Peter Moore

The face of Microsoft's gaming business and mastermind of the strategy behind Xbox 360 and Games for Windows talks to us in an extensive new video interview on profitability, Live Anywhere, HD-DVD, a larger HDD, price drops, Square Enix, and competitive advantage.

Note: This interview has a related news article here.

As the new face of Microsoft's gaming business and mastermind of the strategy behind Xbox 360 and Games for Windows, Peter Moore is going to be busier than ever. Carrying the Xbox presence almsot entirely by himself at E3 this year, nobody is in a more immediate position to give the inside perspective on all the latest happenings with Xbox.

And there's plenty on the agenda, as you'll find in this latest extensive video interview feature exclusively on Kikizo. For a detailed rundown of the highlights you can consult this a related news story, but here's the summary:

Peter Moore, Corporate Vice President,
Interactive Entertainment Business, Microsoft

•   Growth and eventual profitability of the Xbox business
•   Live Anywhere and a billion consumers - people are laughing less now
•   Moore's response to talk of the upcoming Xbox handheld
•   Competitors growing the market, thoughts on PS3 and Wii
•   Pricing strategy - Core Pack, price drops
•   PlayStation 3 pricing and stragey to win games war
•   Scoffing at the 1080p output capability of PS3
•   Pricing for wireless wheel and new accessories
•   A larger hard drive for Xbox 360
•   Backwards compatibility, what's the latest?!
•   Cross platform gaming, how serious is Microsoft

•   Thirdparty support for cross-platform gaming
•   Micro transactions - the future of what we're trying to do
•   Achievements - "It's amazing what people will do.
•   Final Fantasy XIV on Xbox 360? - "we're discussing this all the time"
•   Insights into the work behind Xbox's E3 presence
•   His personal role in the process of the E3 battle
•   Working at Microsoft compared to previous roles at Reebok and Sega
•   Undying passion for the shoe business
•   What he makes of the emails he gets from Bill Gates.

We're sorry about the level of noise in the video interview, we've done as much as we can to minimise it.

Enjoy this latest video interview, and stay tuned for plenty more where this came from.

Kikizo Staff
Interview conducted by Adam Doree and Daniel Pelfrey

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