If you told me this just a few years ago, maybe I would laugh out loud right now. But after the recent changes and occasional shifts in rhetoric in the Xbox division, I see that anything is achievable. So yes, there are many rumors circulating that They mark the arrival of Master Chief on Playstationalthough the Xbox division insists on rolling the ball when asked about this question.
Today, Peter Moore was asked about some topics regarding the company’s current strategy. While it is true that his voice today does not have the authority of yesteryear and that he may no longer know the ins and outs of division, the truth is that he has a much broader vision than almost anyone and to this he adds the data of experience and conversations accumulated throughout his leadership at the head of Xbox.
It’s all going to be about money and what they’re willing to give up on Xbox
The key question has been how could it be otherwise if you think Halo will come to Playstation. It’s a question that may seem obscene, but as I said, times today are very different from last year given the movements of Phil Spencer’s team.
The manager believes that there is currently a lively debate on this subject at Microsoft. And of course, it’s all about money. But Moore doesn’t focus so much on make Halo cross-platform, but even more so as some games (perhaps minor games) from the franchise reach “rival” consoles.
Look, if Microsoft says, wait, we make $250 million on our own platforms, but if we take Halo as, let’s say, a third party, we could make a billion… You need to think long and hard about that, right? I mean you just gotta go, yeah, should it stay? This is an element of intellectual property. It’s bigger than just a game. And how is it used? Those are the conversations that are always happening, how do you leverage that into anything that we would do?
There have been ups and downs, but look, Xbox wouldn’t be what it is without Halo. But yes, I’m sure those conversations are happening. If they come to fruition, who knows? But it certainly happens, I’m sure.
Back in the days of the Xbox 360, the same conversation was already happening
The former manager also discussed Microsoft’s strategy of testing games on other platforms. He considers that they are “putting their feet in the water” and giving us information that we perhaps did not know even if we had it intuitively.
And Moore assures that there were discussions back in the Xbox 360 days about bringing Halo to Playstation, but that they regretted it because of the damage it could do to the brand. Give as an example the guerrilla role that Sony played during the Dreamcast disasterand Moore remembers it very well because he was in charge of the SEGA console at that time.
I think they’re dipping their toes in the water to see how it all works. And you do it a little hesitantly and you say, okay, let’s try the ecosystem here. We’re not going to launch Halo there.
I remember conversations about Halo on PlayStation. You are constantly searching. You get into war gaming, which is what we did as a team before the Xbox 360 launched. We went away for a few days and I played as Ken Kutaragi, and that fascinated me. McKinsey, the consulting group, created this and the idea is that you understand your competition a little better when you wargaming.
My job was to find out how the PlayStation would react to the Xbox 360 and what would it do, as it did with me on the Dreamcast, with fear, uncertainty and doubt? We spent two days there and learned a lot. It scared us because you’re shocked to realize, well, wait, I hadn’t thought of that. Are you saying they could do this to us or that this could happen? So you’re constantly thinking about every scenario, no matter how ridiculous, disruptive, or radical it seems. It is necessary, it is absolutely necessary.
And you, what do you think, do you think that Peter Moore is right in his statements?
