Media shy Xbox chief Peter Moore has been chummying up to Nintendo again. Yesterday he told news site next-gen.biz that, "I have been on the record many times talking about my admiration for Nintendo and the innovation that Wii brings." But his flirtatious endorsement wasn't entirely without reservations. "The controller is innovative but it remains to be seen how innovative your shoulder will feel after an hour's play," he later exclaimed nonsensically.
Moore also envisages a utopia in which canny gamers shun PS3 in favour of owning both a 360 and a Wii. "Dual platform ownership of Xbox 360 and Wii could be as high as 40%... The influence of the Wii-60 movement seems to be growing enormously," he whispered, perhaps while performing some kind of quasi-political arm gesture.
'The Wii-60 movement'? I like it. It elevates the otherwise benign consumer act of purchasing two games consoles into some kind of cultural revolution. Is this, at last, a cause our apathetic generation can finally get behind? Humanitarian crisis in Darfur? 'Hmm, sounds awful but...' The bloody scandal of the war in Iraq? 'Well, I know I should protest...', Wii-60?! 'Yes, let's rise up and embrace a unified solution to the Sony hegemony. Let us play both hardcore shooters and innovative movement-controlled RPGs!'.
So, are you planning to join up?
