Peter Moore Quotes (37 Quotes)

Xbox 360 has a stunning attach rate of four games per console, and an accessory level and attach rate of three per console, both of which are nearly double the previous record.

We said at E3, we want a billion consumers touched in this next generation by our industry. That was an industry message. Certainly, we can see Nintendo rallying to that cry and reiterating what Robbie said on May 16th I heard the same words come from Iwata-san of Nintendo yesterday.

I think the brand is an opportunity.

If you put two and two together, there's no doubt there's a great opportunity to put the two platforms together, ... Obviously with a company like Microsoft this is something we have to look into and ask about. Is it actionable today Probably not, but it's something we need to look at.

From our point of view the slate is relatively clean, ... We've been in the software business for a quarter of a century. We've got teams that have been together for a long time. These guys salivate over this stuff. They're hardcore gamers. Now they're kind of unleashed.

Today we have turned a major corner.

We signal the beginning of what we believe will be market leadership even here in Japan.

We tried Xbox 2. We tried a number of names. Went around the world for four months, and Xbox 2 got a shrug of the shoulder.

If the PS3 (set for release in spring 2006) is truly more powerful than this machine, as has been rumored, well, playing games on that unit will be like controlling your friends in the backyard. The biggest and the best names in publishing are committed to the success of Xbox 360, and looking at the titles we have announced, we are very excited, ... The high-definition era of gaming starts now.

The ability for us to be able to drive the hardware price down requires us to have some kind of a business model elsewhere,

It's taken some knocks because it was built in a visual style that doesn't show off the next generation well.

Within the next four to six weeks, anybody will be able to walk into a store and buy an Xbox 360.

Our goal has always been to make Xbox Live a cutting-edge entertainment experience. This agreement with Epic Records offers our members exclusive artistic content directly from the source.

the best game lineup ever in the history of video games.

Xbox Live Marketplace puts the buying power directly into the consumer's hands, allowing each person to choose digital content they want, when they want it.

We're incredibly excited about providing gamers with that they want - inexpensive and entertaining digital content delivered right to their Xbox 360,

I'm sure the Ballmer boys aren't happy with that because he has to get in line at retail like everybody else. He can come to my house if he needs games to play.

It went great, we had a super crowd despite the early hour.

I want to give kudos for Nintendo for its attempt at innovation with the new controller, ... bring people in that, as Iwata-san said, are either lapsed gamers or gamers that are intimidated by the complexity of the controller.

MS reportedly has upwards of 2,500 people working on the worldwide 360 launch, and the company will utilize every plane available to ship its product. We're going to ship all around the world how we're going to do that, I don't know, ... We're going to rent every 747 we can find.

Xbox Live on Xbox 360 gives each and every player the opportunity to become a member of the world's largest online gaming community. We're excited to offer our existing two million members this supercharged online experience at the same retail price, as well as introduce new users to the next generation in online gaming and entertainment.

I was looking at which games were selling. I was seeing two in particular 'Perfect Dark Zero' and 'Ridge Racer' seemed to be going out in every package. PDZ has done very well in the west, particularly the online side. Ridge Racer debuts here today and it looks like a great game. 'Every Party' was probably third, but that's anecdotal.

Xbox has got so much going for it as we go into the holidays that anything that disturbs the ecosystem for us is bad for business,

I'm calling a 100 million day on 'Halo' today.

Singapore has moved very quickly to put itself in the spotlight in the water industry and to address the water issues facing the world today.

We believe in HD-DVD as a corporation, and we believe that there will be some consumers in 2006 that want to utilize their Xbox 360 to play HD-DVD movies, and we're making that possible.

What we have done is encourage retail to keep a balance between pre-orders and first-come-first-served sales, both in North America and in Europe.

I don't think it's wise to bet against Microsoft in anything they do. I know that (CEO Bill) Gates is personally involved in the success of this project, ... My job is to make sure we're not overexposed on one particular platform, but that we are ready when a platform does explode.

We have to get credit cards out of the way. We've got to broaden this to younger demographics.

Right now it's focused purely on movie playback. Think of the drive as something that lets you play high-definition movies on the Xbox 360.

The lesson we learned was never to get into the hardware business again, ... Sega had incurred an incredible amount of losses over the last few years trying to develop a next generation console. The unfortunate part of getting into the hardware market is that it's a very expensive undertaking. All the hardware manufacturers are incurring losses.

Now, we feel we are in a position to demonstrate what we are really capable of.

They make it or they don't. It's no big deal if a game takes another week. The consumer will get a strong line-up.

Sega supports a creative community of talented artists. Pirates are parasites that hurt this community and will not be tolerated by Sega,

We knew we had one of the hottest products for the holidays on our hands but even I was stunned by reports the next morning of fights breaking out and guns being drawn.

The 30s are when most people receive their first whiff of mortality ... it's a time when you're first taking a look further on in your life ... depending on how you live in your 30s, the 40s is when it could all start to go horribly wrong.

Today we have turned a major corner. With more consoles on their way to retail, 80 games available by June, and new content and experiences coming to Xbox Live all the time, there has never been a better time to own an Xbox 360.