Xbox.com’s Pre-E3 Chat with Peter Moore

Xbox.com sat down with Peter Moore, Microsoft’s Corporate Vice President for Interactive Entertainment Business, to get some inside information about the Xbox 360 and the Xbox Live service as the videogame community counts down the days until the Electronics Entertainment Expo (E3).

With the incredible support from third-party partnerships, Moore believes that more follow-up to the 18-title launch is just fitting, thus the roll-out of the RPG The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, just four months after the launch of the Xbox 360. While gamers are wrapped up with Oblivion, Peter sees Xbox 360 rolling out between 150 and 200 games in the next 12 to 18 months.  Games like Crackdown, Gears of War, Too Human, Mass Effect, Viva Pinata, Blue Dragon, and Lost Odyssey will be included in long lineup of Xbox 360 games to hit retail shops.

Among the seven upcoming titles, Moore singled out Viva Pinata as the game that will appeal to all demographics. He also believed in the power of Xbox Live Arcade to bring people back into video games. He points to the Xbox Live Arcade as the killer app on Xbox 360. It also opens the door for small game developers. The ability for Xbox Live Arcade to provide the ultimate distribution for innovative games takes it back to where you would hope that two guys in a garage could actually develop a game, Moore said.

The Xbox Live Marketplace also plays an important role in bringing people to play games. Being home to the newest trailers, demos and contents, the Marketplace will play host to the hottest downloads from E3 2006. Moore believes that E3 will be a real test for Xbox Live, and he’s looking forward to the massive new content downloads.

Moore pretty much sums up where Microsoft is and where it is heading in the future. The Xbox Live will not be just about gaming anymore as people live the digital entertainment lifestyle. Asked about his hopes for Xbox 360 and the gaming industry, Moore replied, My hope would be that five years from now we scratch our heads and say, ‘Remember the days when consoles weren’t connected?’ And things would seem so primitive, almost medieval, that you would have an offline box like how now it seems medieval if your computer somehow doesn’t connect to the Internet.

Xbox.com sat down with Peter Moore, Microsoft’s Corporate Vice President for Interactive Entertainment Business, to get some inside information about the Xbox 360 and the Xbox Live service as the videogame community counts down the days until the Electronics Entertainment Expo (E3).

With the incredible support from third-party partnerships, Moore believes that more follow-up to the 18-title launch is just fitting, thus the roll-out of the RPG The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, just four months after the launch of the Xbox 360. While gamers are wrapped up with Oblivion, Peter sees Xbox 360 rolling out between 150 and 200 games in the next 12 to 18 months.  Games like Crackdown, Gears of War, Too Human, Mass Effect, Viva Pinata, Blue Dragon, and Lost Odyssey will be included in long lineup of Xbox 360 games to hit retail shops.

Among the seven upcoming titles, Moore singled out Viva Pinata as the game that will appeal to all demographics. He also believed in the power of Xbox Live Arcade to bring people back into video games. He points to the Xbox Live Arcade as the killer app on Xbox 360. It also opens the door for small game developers. The ability for Xbox Live Arcade to provide the ultimate distribution for innovative games takes it back to where you would hope that two guys in a garage could actually develop a game, Moore said.

The Xbox Live Marketplace also plays an important role in bringing people to play games. Being home to the newest trailers, demos and contents, the Marketplace will play host to the hottest downloads from E3 2006. Moore believes that E3 will be a real test for Xbox Live, and he’s looking forward to the massive new content downloads.

Moore pretty much sums up where Microsoft is and where it is heading in the future. The Xbox Live will not be just about gaming anymore as people live the digital entertainment lifestyle. Asked about his hopes for Xbox 360 and the gaming industry, Moore replied, My hope would be that five years from now we scratch our heads and say, ‘Remember the days when consoles weren’t connected?’ And things would seem so primitive, almost medieval, that you would have an offline box like how now it seems medieval if your computer somehow doesn’t connect to the Internet.