What Does Peter Moore Known About The Xbox's Motion Control Plans?

By Michael McWhertor

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Now that former Xbox exec Peter Moore is well established at EA Sports, he's probably going to be willing to spill the beans on the oft-rumored motion controller planned for the Xbox 360. Right? Well...

Moore, when asked by GameTrailers TV's Geoff Keighley about his knowledge of Microsoft's plans—plans that may have formed during Moore's tenure at the company—he's pretty cagey. While Peter likely has full knowledge of the Xbox 360 maker's motion control goals, he's not going to burn any bridges.

"I think that knowing Microsoft in particular, obviously, is that they are constantly thinking three to five years ahead of where consumer behavior is going to be," Moore says, carefully dodging anything resembling confirmation. He wagers that the Microsoft of right now is thinking about "how do people want to interact with their games and probably thinking about now how do we replicate motion control, but how we go one step further."

And what about those rumors of EA Sports' involvement in a mixed martial arts game, Peter? Feel like confirming that on cable?

"We keep a very close eye on it, but nothing to announce right now," Moore said, lauding THQ and Crave's work on current and past UFC games.

While motion controller on the Xbox 360 front has slowed, particularly as Microsoft's console sales increase, it's hard to imagine the chatter from years past was based on nothing but speculation. Especially when we consider the publicly anonymous sources of those rumors.

The more suspicious of us might think that some of that chatter was planted, to see how the Xbox 360 public would react to such an idea.

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The problem with that is that it isn't about interactivity, that's the medium, it's about accessibility or at least convincing people of that.

Xbox 360 does not need motion control. Save that for the 720 or whatever they call it. 360 is doing fine and will not catch the wii. Best save it for next gen when they can build it into the hardware from the beginning

A very...basic form of it, yeah...but I really couldn't explain it in much better terms as simply either, except that interactivity DOES have a good bit on influence ON the accessability of games.

1337 gamer: I'm pretty sure thats what they are talking about, not the 360.

Where the F-----k is my Wii MARTIAL ARTS GAME? Jesus, how long do we have to wait? I want some Kung Fu / Bruce Lee / Tony Jaa hardcore balance board integrated WM+ ball breakin, son of a bitch hardcore, blood soaked, wiimote action.

It is really bizarre that this hasn't turned up yet in japan or the west

@megaman79

He gave us Wii Boxing.

^ Damn that fight club tribute is F---n Awesome, lol

I like the part about how MS is always thinking "3-5 years" ahead.

I guess, if you think about it from a certain standpoint, there's no way he can be wrong. In "3-5 years" all um... Microsoft console owners will want pointer-based controllers with motion controls -- because that's what MS will be providing.