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The Engadget & Joystiq Interview: Microsoft's Peter Moore
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Where's J Allard?
J was just, umm. J was doing a BMX event or something. I don't know. He's back in Redmond now.
It's just that he's been MIA since launch.
J's working hard. J runs the platform. J has his engineers. He's been working hard on Live updates and what have you. Live as a platform is something something to J.
It's just that the difference from pre-launch, where we saw him in the ourcolony video. He was the face of the Xbox 360.
Remember, you were there Tuesday right? I started off saying we had an organizational change. I run the business from the point of view what people have to do. One thing it means is a singular face. One thing we figured out was that the J/Robbie/Peter thing probably wasn't working. J's incredibly busy. J is one of smartest guys on the face of the Earth, and developing platforms is what he does. From that point of view ... I don't know. J's a very active young man and ... snowboarding season's over.
There's a rumor that he's maybe working on the Xboy, a portable Xbox.
I think J was actually on the grassy-knoll in '63 in Dallas.
Was he also responsible for hiding all those Xboxes at Area 51?
He actually hid the E.T. cartridges, that's how far back he goes.
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If you're really serious about the whole games thing, don't you think portable's a part of that?
Portable's a part of everything, but there's a billion cell phones now that I don't think that in any way our industry is doing a fine job of exploiting what's possible on mobile phones. We're blind to the fact that everyone will carry one of these devices. It h as have input, it has a screen. Anything that has input, has a screen, you can play games.
Translation : we got OS running on mobile market already, so why portable game machine.
The thing about nintendo...
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You're not often talking about Nintendo as a competitor ...
I talk about Nintendo every day. They are a competitor, but I think they're in a different space. They have spectacular first-party intellectual property that is timeless, that is built around fun, it's character-based in many instances, it's iterations of great franchises that have gone for decades, but it's primarily youth-based. They're also doing, with the Wii controller, which eventually I'll go and get my hands on, things that are innovative that, from the moment I saw them in Tokyo, I was quoted that day as saying that I loved the innovation and that has stayed with me forever, and I don't back down from that, but I think we're in different spaces as two different companies that can certainly coexist and complement each other.
I like the interview..