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June 19th, 2008 @ 11:12
In an interview with CVG, EA superstar Peter Moore, when quizzed about casual gaming being “the way forward”, said that the nature of a game like Rock Band “is going to change the way we think about games.”
“It really came home for me when we were in Munich for our global marketing meeting and we took over the Hard Rock Café for the night and had a Rock Band competition,” said Peter.
“There were a hundred of us and it was like a real rock concert. It was a blast. I stood back and I thought that this was an incredible cultural phenomenon,” he added.
“The crowd were going wild, but all we were doing was playing on toy guitars, toy drums and singing badly into a microphone. Now the beer might have had something to do with it, I don’t know, but it was a great social thing. And I said, ‘Boy, this product is going to change the way we think about games.’”
Full interview through the link.
By Mike Bowden
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June 19th, 2008 at 11:17 am
I agree. It’s going to make us think “man, I can’t afford games any more!”.
June 19th, 2008 at 11:25 am
I bet they were really going wild.
June 19th, 2008 at 11:36 am
Like dads at a wedding, no doubt.
June 19th, 2008 at 11:41 am
His finger’s firmly on the pulse. You two are just jealous. Games go where Peter Moore tells them to.
June 19th, 2008 at 12:18 pm
He’s right. It’s changed the way I think about Rock Band games and made me even more resolute not to have anything to do with ‘em.
£13 for a fucking album. FECK OFF…
June 19th, 2008 at 12:34 pm
Rock band won’t change the way people think about games…
Publishers have ALWAYS ripped concepts from other people.
June 19th, 2008 at 4:35 pm
“Games go where Peter Moore tells them to.”
Don’t know about games so much, but labels and brands certainly do - bye-bye EA BIG
June 19th, 2008 at 5:31 pm
“Publishers have ALWAYS ripped concepts from other people.”
Considering that they own the developers that made the original game (and Frequency + Amplitude before Guitar Hero), I don’t think they can really be accused of ripping someone off.