{"id":4617,"date":"2008-07-21T20:49:39","date_gmt":"2008-07-22T03:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/?post_type=news&#038;p=4617"},"modified":"2013-03-15T17:08:49","modified_gmt":"2013-03-16T00:08:49","slug":"moore-says-wii-to-match-ps2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/moore-says-wii-to-match-ps2\/","title":{"rendered":"Moore Says Wii to Match PS2"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6344\" style=\"width: 385px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6344\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6344\" alt=\"EA Sports president Peter Moore.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/peter_moore-S.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"313\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6344\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">EA Sports president Peter Moore.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>JULY 21, 2008 \u2022 EA Sports president Peter Moore told the Financial Times that he expects the Wii to hold the same market share power in this console generation that the PS2 held in the last.\u00a0 &#8220;It looks to me as if the Wii is going to have at least half the installed base of the overall industry and the Xbox 360 and PS3 are going to fight over the balance, based on the run-rates we&#8217;re seeing,&#8221; Moore told the newspaper.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><em>Impact: Peter Moore left the Microsoft Xbox 360 team shortly after last year&#8217;s E3.\u00a0 As a member of EA, it now seems Moore holds views more closely in line with DFC Intelligence&#8217;s forecasts.\u00a0 What remains unclear is the negative financial impact this could have on EA and other publishers.\u00a0 EA in particular has been very weak on Nintendo platforms.\u00a0 The company steadfastly refused to heed the warning signs nearly two years ago that the Wii could be the leader this generation.\u00a0 Now the company may pay the price.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JULY 21, 2008 \u2022 EA Sports president Peter Moore told the Financial Times that he expects the Wii to hold the same market share power in this console generation that the PS2 held in the last.\u00a0 &#8220;It looks to me as if the Wii is going to have at least half the installed base of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4617"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4617"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6343,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4617\/revisions\/6343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}