Peter Moore Resigns

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Microsoft Corp. today announced that Don Mattrick, a former president at Electronic Arts Inc. (EA), will lead the Interactive Entertainment Business (IEB), which includes overseeing the Xbox® and Games for Windows® businesses. Peter Moore, who currently serves as corporate vice president of IEB, has decided to move his family back to the Bay Area for personal reasons and has secured another opportunity in the video games industry.

Mattrick will take over as the senior vice president of IEB at Microsoft, effective July 30. Mattrick was the founder of Distinctive Software Inc., which operated as a private company from 1982 until its merger with EA in 1991. Mattrick held various senior positions within EA, most recently as president of Worldwide Studios, until his resignation in February 2006. In February 2007, Mattrick began working with the Entertainment and Devices Division at Microsoft as an external advisor.

"Peter has contributed enormously to the games business since joining Microsoft in 2003 and we are sad to see him go," said Robbie Bach, president of Entertainment and Devices Division at Microsoft. "Since that time, he presided over the global launch of the Xbox 360™, spearheaded a revitalized and rebranded Games for Windows business, and helped steer the console's ascent."

Moore has decided to return with his family to Northern California, where they lived until he took the position at Microsoft. Moore will remain at Microsoft to assist in the transition through August and will then return to the San Francisco Bay area.

"While Peter will certainly be missed, we are delighted to have one of the industry's most talented and passionate veterans on board to lead the business," Bach said. "Don is well-known and respected throughout the industry for his deep knowledge, technical expertise and management savvy. Under Don's leadership, the games team is looking forward to embarking on our biggest holiday ever, with a wide-ranging roster of some of the most highly anticipated titles."

Mattrick brings 23 years of games industry and development experience to the strong Microsoft management team, having helped bring to life such celebrated game franchises as the "Need for Speed," "Harry Potter" and "The Sims" while at EA.

"Over the past two decades, and the past few months in particular, I've worked closely with many of Microsoft's top leaders and I've always been impressed by their talent, passion and commitment," said Mattrick. "I'm thrilled to join an already strong team that's delivering truly amazing gaming experiences to customers around the world. I've never been more excited about the future of the industry, and firmly believe Microsoft will lead the next great innovations in gaming."
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Didnt see that coming.
 
EA?

I apologize in advance to all Xbox owners
 
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Anyone else got the feeling he's going to Sony? Seriously if Moore went to Sony or Nintendo he could ruin Microsoft with the amount of knowledge has on 360 and PC side.
 
Uh didnt ken kutaragi at sony do pretty much the same thing.
 
TheOsyris said:
Uh didnt ken kutaragi at sony do pretty much the same thing.
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He resigned due to shame, not due to dislike of the company, which is what this seems like.

And to Romper, using any inside information against his company would open him up for serious lawsuits due to the contracts and confidentiality agreements he had with Microsoft. I can guarantee he had them, just based off the way they handle Windows code which is they never have enough of the code in the same place or handled by the same person to ever risk a leak of vital source for it to matter. Microsoft covers its ass, because if the Windows source code got out or any of their inside practices, it would ruin them in every conceivable way.
 
This just seems like he got offered more money. Maybe he is Arod of gaming.
 
Peter Moore has said there is no connection between his departure from Microsoft and the recent announcement that the company is to spend USD 1 billion on Xbox 360 repairs.

Speaking in a podcast hosted by Microsoft's Larry Hryb - otherwise known as Major Nelson - Moore said his decision to resign is "completely and utterly unrelated to anything that's gone on within the business... It's purely about my family".
"This agreement between myself and EA was signed about five weeks ago, way before any of the final work that was done on the warranty," he continued. "It was completely unrelated."
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has nothing to do with the MS business or the 360 at all.
 
And they said Ken left cause he was a hardware guy and the hardware part of PS3 was done. Nobody outright says publicly why a guy's is leaving/fired and they shouldn't. It's all internal politics and none of it really matters to the customer.
 
I do agree fireman^^
 
eh, makes no difference to me. hes just one man, its not going to hinder anything. it just takes the "hip with the kids" face away from them since thats what most people saw moore as.
 
Yea he breaks a NDA he will be in so much shit, Microsoft's lawyers would DESTROY him.

And I agree with Firestreak. At this point all the hardware is more or less in place, its all on the game developers now to decide X-Box's fate.
 
Oh dear god NO! Not EA!!! Not Electronic Arts!! Damn them!!

(i hate them for not being able to skip their useless title screen, it totally sucks!)
 
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