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Xbox 360 Head Leaves for EA Sports

by Tim Stevens on July 18, 2007 at 10:12 AM

Peter Moore Leaving MS for EAPeter Moore, the very vocal leader of the Microsoft's Interactive Entertainment Business division (a.k.a. "those dudes who made the Xbox"), is stepping down from his Redmond-based position, taking a potentially more notable and even more lucrative job with Electronic Arts, heading up its EA Sports line (responsible for 'Madden' and 'NBA Live' franchises, among other). Moore states his reason for leaving as a desire to be closer to his family in the San Francisco Bay area (and who can blame him), but many in the blogsophere are quick to point to the recent debacle surrounding the Xbox 360 warranty extension, which is expected to cost the company a whopping $1 billion dollars.

Regardless of his reasons for leaving, Moore certainly won't be wanting for cash at his new position. According to the SEC filing (posted at 1UP for all to see) Moore will be pulling down at least $550,000 a year and is receiving a $330,000 relocation bonus. That should make for a nice down-payment on a standard-sized home in the sky-high Bay Area real-estate market for Moore & Family.

Moore recently gained a bit of notoriety for himself when he nearly single-handedly botched the feature demo of 'Rock Band' at Microsoft's pre-E3 media event last week. Playing the guitar, Moore managed to accidentally pause the game not once, but twice, and nearly exited out of the demo at one point. His handiwork spawned a (likely short lived) new bit of trash-talk: Anyone accidentally pausing the game while rocking out was said to have "Pulled a Peter Moore."

From Engadget, 1UP and Joystiq

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