Peter Moore Talks Japan, Sixaxis, Folding@Home and Dead 360s

Peter Moore of Microsoft has a nice interview with Mike Antonucci of Mercury News where he answers many of the questions we have on our minds in Xbox 360 land.  Concerning the problem of dead 360s, he stresses that you focus on how they’re dealing with customers, not focusing on the faulty hardware.  He says he feels comfortable about Microsoft’s position on the controller front, and says that Bill Gates himself has discussed the possibilities of throwing the massive power of the 360 into some philanthropic direction such as Folding@Home.  He certainly leaves open the possibility:

“Then if we truly believe that we can in some way marshall the resources of a much larger installed base of Xbox 360 owners, with a processer that’s of equal power to the PS3, then you have my have my commitment that we’ll look at that. And if we believe we can add value to solving a gnarly problem such as the medical problems and the health problems that Folding@home seems to be doing, then we’ll certainly look at that very strongly.”

Let’s hope this really becomes a possibility!