Peter Moore to head up EA Sports

[Patr1ck]

IGN: There aren't many people that are aware of Mr. Moore's sports past or sports history. Wouldn't this be somewhat of a different direction for him?

Riccitiello: Actually, it's not. In his youth, Peter was a professional soccer player. From there, he was at Reebok, and led all their sports marketing and ultimately was their global head of marketing in the sports business. Then he went to SEGA to compete against EA in sports, and this is the first time (the Microsoft stint) that he hasn't been in the direct line of fire on sports for his entire career since he was fifteen. He's the kind of guy that when you ask him, 'Who's the fitness trainer for the Chicago Bulls,' he'll know. He's beyond deep on sports: he knows all the commissioners, the folks that run the league, etc. It's been a key part of his life, and while I didn't necessarily need to get a guy or a gal that keeps track of box scores, it's good to get somebody that's that deep on sports.

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[BZ]

Which means all future EA Sports titles will come out a year earlier than it's competition, and also will have a design flaw that may make the games defective, comes with a 3 year warranty to combat the design flaw too.(Y)

[benji]

Other possibilities:
-EA to release it's own console?

Also, the guy replacing Moore at Microsoft is the guy who ran EA during it's worst years of rehashing licenses. Can't wait for Halo 2009! and Gears of War '08!

[Sauru]

would not be that suprised if EA did try to come up with its own console, they own so damn much of the industry already