Peter Moore talks about heart breaking decision

by Dustin Burg { May 19th 2008 at 10:15AM }

When news hit the internets last July that Peter Moore was leaving team Microsoft our heart was in shambles. The news tor our emotional psyche apart without care or remorse. We've since recovered (it took some time though) and are now hearing that Peter Moore too had a difficult time accepting his decision and he too was in emotional shambles.

Chatting with GamesIndustry.biz, Moore revealed that he "thoroughly enjoyed working" on the Xbox team and even admitted that, when in the final decisive hour, "it broke my heart leaving Microsoft." Awww, so cute. Moore went on to explain that he had "a real yearning for getting back to what we as Brits living in America call home, which is the San Francisco Bay area" and that need ultimately proved the reason why he took the job over at EA Sports. "You get to the point in your life where you say, do I live where I work, or do I work where I live? For me, I would rather live in the Bay area - nothing against Seattle - and there's only really one job I would have taken to leave Xbox and that's president of EA Sports."

Much love Peter Moore, we miss you.

[Thanks, Boff]

Tags: ea, microsoft, moore, peter-moore

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

DBoyFlex @ May 19th 2008 10:36AM

Could be a good thing for EA though.

Dick @ May 19th 2008 12:19PM

Hopefully he can pull some heads out of asses throughout the culture of EA, but at the least, we'll have a higher concentration on quality control at EA with Moore at the helm of the sports div.

Sev @ May 19th 2008 10:47AM

I was only a couple months into the Xbox when I learned about him. Seems like nice guy.

I also thought he was a really good speech giver from the E3 07.

Merehorseplay @ May 19th 2008 11:13AM

Awe he left Microsoft for big $$$. to bad for him, lets feel sorry for his feelings of remorse.

ANt @ May 19th 2008 11:36AM

Boo hoo hoo Peter, I am sure the multi-million dollar contract with Ea really had you an emotional wreck.

B.S.!!

L @ May 19th 2008 11:43AM

:( BUT EA left the Dreamcast for dead ..... so i hope he takes them down from the inside :P

Gemini Ace @ May 19th 2008 11:58AM

If he had stayed, we wouldn't have bullshit like Inside Xbox and Xbox Originals.

Doug @ May 19th 2008 12:46PM

And that 1 billion dollars he cost Msoft--by approving the Xbox with the RRoD design flaw--didn't have anything to do with it. It was so he could ride the cable cars.

Young readers, take note. Nothing public figures say in a newspaper or magazine is even half-true. In fact, you can usually understand the true situation by taking the exact opposite of what they're saying as fact.

BananaBoat @ May 19th 2008 2:08PM

San Francisco seems to be the place to move to these days, for everything from jobs in the game industry, to jobs in the IT industry. Not that the Seattle area isn't equally as thriving, but something about San Francisco seems to have more appeal for some reason. Seems to be more fun.

I'm sure the money hats had nothing to do with his decision. (Not that I could blame him if they did. Man's gotta eat....on his 100 foot yacht)

RomeoDude @ May 19th 2008 6:44PM

Microsoft should considering renting him from EA just to do some keynotes... I'm sure his replacement isn't willing to get tattoos to announce games, and I'd like do see him single-handedly reveal a new SKU to an audience (though I could be prove wrong... I guess we'll have to wait till July to find out!).