XBOX 360 Video Interview with Microsoft’s Peter Moore

After his keynote at this year’s Digital Life tech expo in New York City, Primotechnology.com had a chance to talk to the Corporate Vice-President of Marketing and Publishing for Microsoft’s XBOX and Home and Entertainment Divisions, Peter Moore. The video interview (6-minute, DivX Compressed AVI, 43.5 MB) also has an abbreviated text transcript, here’s a few snippets:

Larger or External USB Drives? - The compatibility with a Windows Media Center system means, theoretically, you can have 200GB+ of space for your new 360. However, there are currently no plans to have an XBOX 360 hard drive that’s bigger than 20GB. It may be implemented several years from now, if such an upgrade is warranted, but for now the team believes that 20GB is more than ample. Files can be transferred and deleted and added just like on a regular PC.

Connectivity with Windows XP and Vista - While you can, in fact, stream content from a PC running XP to the Xbox 360 via your home network, Microsoft believes the real focal point should be Media Center Edition and that pure entertainment is key. USB expandability is also integral, while Vista, which will have a strong entertainment component, is also highly compatible with the 360.

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