Off Topic: Chatting With Xbox 360 Marketing Guru Peter Moore
Read the full interview here.Here's an excerpt:
Forgive me if I interrupt you, if I hear something that I
already heard at the press briefing, I might cut your answer short a
little bit. Congratulations on Gears of War. Everyone is
saying it looks and plays awesome. It actually appears to be head and
shoulders above everything we're seeing on the show floor. Is that a
conscious choice to keep it off the floor itself, so that the
comparison gap doesn't pop?No, not really. I think the
idea is that the game deserves hands-on. We're trying to show it to as
many people as we can up here. The team at Epic is really so conscious
of the quality of what they're doing and presenting that bringing them
up here, we'll get thousands of people through in the end, they churn
people through pretty quickly, there was no conscious effort, no.
So where are the rest of the games that look this good?Here? That depends on your ... you tell me. What is it that you think is missing?
There
does appear to be a gap in quality between that and everything else.
It's just head and shoulders above. We're wondering if there are other
titles that will match that by the time they come out. Quality of gameplay, graphics, depth, immersion? It's all subjective. I'm biased on all of them. Games like
Crackdown: different visual style, different genre. But, it's coming together really well.
Mass Effect.
I was on some blogs last night where people are spending some time on
it and are really impressed with it. Dave Perry and a few other people
wrote some really strong stories about
Mass Effect. That's a weird question ... I mean, which of my children do I love more?