Moore Snubs the Xbox 360

Despite all the hard work that's gone into its next-gen console, Microsoft says the PC is still its No. 1 platform.

With the hubbub surrounding the recent launch of the Xbox 360, you'd be forgiven for thinking that this is Microsoft's preferred platform. It's not, says company executive Peter Moore speaking at last week's DICE Summit.

"I want to apologize for the dereliction of duty to our company's number-one platform, the PC, in terms of gaming," Moore said, in a report at GameSpot.

"We've been a little distracted for the past few years. Mea culpa, we've been busy."

Now that the Xbox 360 is off, slowly Microsoft is turning attention back to its bread-and-butter, the operating systems - specifically its new one, Windows Vista. The OS got a boost last week when Microsoft revealed that Halo 2, the best selling game on Xbox, would only be playable on Vista, which is due later this year.

Moore also joined the ever-louder chorus of game makers calling for more originality from their peers. And as Moore explained, the time has come for games to be all they can be:

"I am very concerned that we are too reliant on sequels, formulaic gameplay, and licenses from outside our medium. The stagnation we may be seeing...is that we are becoming like TV and film in that we are sticking to a formula, and publishing out number three, number four."

He added: "We are a superior medium, and we should take the next step to rekindling originality."

Alex Wollenschlaeger
Editor, Kikizo Games