News > Jack Tretton On Microsoft's Folding@home
May 19, 2007
Responding to Peter Moore's comments that Microsoft is interested in taking part in a Folding@home -type endeavor, SCEA's Jack Tretton has expressed his disappointment in what he sees as just a me-too move.
"I think to look at it as a marketing platform is something that a company certainly wouldn't want to do. I'm certainly not insinuating that's Microsoft's motivation, but I'm not even sure how relevant it is to what we're doing. Would they be even having this conversation if we weren't doing it? I don't know."
"It's really ugly territory to get into, but let's take fighting a disease and see if we can get some credit for that ... It's not a cool game to play one way or the other so I don't want to even give the impression that that's our motivation, and I'd be very disappointed if they're looking for PR value or to try to suck off some of the goodwill that we're doing."
So it's not quite name-calling, per se, but it sure sounds like Tretton could have used the term "biters" and gotten the same message across.
*Eddie R Inzauto - Senior Editor, GameWad.com
