Xbox exec on Revolution

Microsoft's Peter Moore, in an interview with GamesIndustry.biz: "First of all, I want to give kudos for Nintendo, for its attempt at innovation with the new controller -- bringing people in that, as Iwata-san said, are either lapsed gamers or gamers that are intimidated by the complexity of the controller." (Via 1up.com)

You could spend a lot of time parsing that out, looking at the underlying motivations, and trying to figure out what it says about Microsoft's feelings toward the Nintendo Revolution console as a competitor in the next console generation. Suffice it to say you don't hear Xbox executives giving compliments to market leader Sony's controller design for the PlayStation 3.

For more on the Nintendo Revolution controller, unveiled last week at the Tokyo game show, see these hands-on reports from Wired News and IGN.