Thu, Sep 18, 2008 | 11:40 BST
Peter Moore: Iwata brought out the Wii controller and we said, “What the hell is that?”
More completely frankness from the Moore. This time, he’s admitted that he and Robbie Bach were baffled by Wii’s controller, but knew Nintendo would come back despite GameCube’s death.
“I was in Tokyo when Iwata-san brought the controller out and said, ‘here it is!’ and we were all going, ‘what the hell is that?”. I was with Robbie and I remember going ‘I don’t know… it’s different’. But we knew that they were too good a company to lose twice in a row,” he said.
“But even then it was all about Sony, it was not about Nintendo, because they were so down and out – it’s very difficult to think now, it was four years ago. You just couldn’t picture that four or five years ago. GameCube was just… dying. The Revolution as it was called, we knew it couldn’t be anything powerful. It was in the days when Sony and ourselves were saying it’s all about hi-def, it’s all about 5.1 sound, it’s all about 1080i, and they said it’s about a GameCube 1.5 and you’re going to wave this stick around and have a lot of fun.”
Moore was speaking in the fourth part of an ongoing Guardian interview. Go read it.
Related posts
Peter Moore launches EA Sports blog
Peter Moore: Rock Band will change the way we think about games
9 
Posted in: Platform holders
Tags: peter moore
9 comments
#1
Psychotext
18/09/08, 11:33 am
He’s actually talking about the Wii controller there.
#2
pleasant_cabbage
18/09/08, 11:34 am
Yes. Purple is strange but not baffling
#3
patlike
18/09/08, 11:37 am
*whistles*
#4
Tiger Walts
18/09/08, 11:38 am
The only really bad thing about the controller was the C-stick, its positioning, fiddliness and poor fidelity set it behind when it came to cross-platform titles.
Many didn’t like the stepped triggers which also held it back for titles that used analogue triggers on a specific way. It did succeed though when developers took the time to use it to its strengths.
I personally love the face buttons (except for Start). In an age where context sensitive input had become the norm, having a big fat A button for performing the most pertinent action felt right. The accompanying B button performing the standard cancel/return/back functions follows the evolution. As do the satellite X and Y segments which carry less frequent but static functions.
It was at odds with the multi-format market but titles written for the pad benefited greatly.
Aww, I just typed that and Pat got the wrong one.
#5
patlike
18/09/08, 11:39 am
Really sorry
Moore frenzy there.
#6
Psychotext
18/09/08, 11:40 am
The gamecube controller was strange anyway.
#7
BraveArse
18/09/08, 12:07 pm
the cube controller was strange, definitely, but there’s still not been a controller that was more comfortable to hold imo. and I rate the 360 pad very highly in that dept too.
not had a chance to read any of the Guardian interview yet…
/finally clicks the link
#8
MisterBronze
18/09/08, 1:52 pm
Did the writer of this news post actually READ the Guardian article? Peter Moore is talking about the GameCube controller, not the Wii controller…
#9
Blerk
18/09/08, 1:54 pm
No he wasn’t.