June 18th 2009 6:19 pm PT

Worked with John more than a few times. Best of luck to him and his new role at EA.

Huh, surprising.
Enjoy his presenting at the conference (hope this doesn’t mean more Mattrick ).
Wish him the best back at EA.

Aww, and I thought he was doing an amazing job during MS Press Conferences at E3!

Cool guy! Wish him the best.

i guess MS should have given him that raise.

shame,wish him luck…why are EA stealing all your crew?….are you next for EA,major??

@Zeouterlimits Maybe major will do it! I bet it will be Mattrick though.

wish peter moore would come back

Larry,

I hope you’ll be doing the Press Conferance next year. Don is ok, but he does stumble a bit. We need someone who can deliver the spoken word, you can do that.

Mr. Schappert wasn’t exactly my favorite E3 Conference spokesman (alas, the best were Peter Moore and J Allard!), but he seemed really enthusiastic about Xbox and gaming in general so I wish him the best of luck over at EA.

Ahhh… that blows. I really liked that guy. He wasn’t the greatest ever (Peter Moore) but he was pretty good. He seemed like he really cared about what he and the team were doing… he will be missed. Mattrick is another story. He reminds me of Goofy. -But he did make Test Drive… and i played it allot.. man i feel old.
LOAD “Peter Moore”,8,1

So when is Xbox PR going to comment on Mr. Balmer’s slip of the tongue today? I can’t imagine that was something you guys would have expected to have to wake up and deal with today.

good luck john…you did a good job at ms…you will be missed for sure…even from us “the community”

@logikil, i dont see why that is such a big deal.

1. announce coming out in 2010, okay i think many of us knew that already.
2. announcement of a new 360 console/sku, would include the project natal accessory, and possible a redesign, of the console, (ps2 to ps2 slim)

btw…who is going to do the keynote’s now, I vote for J. Allard.

Major, I think your comments software is broken.
I’m sure it is not functioning correct, as we have had 13 posts on this topic, and not one b1tching about the guide lag.

Have Litheon get on that toot sweet.

Damn, I saw an E3 interview with him on GameTrailers and he cuts straight through the shit. Microsoft needs more guys like him.

Remember Peter Moore Got fire from Microsoft Oke

Best of Luck to John, and best of luck to Phil and Marc as well.

Well he did not last long did he, at this rate no one will want the job lol.

I’m submitting my resume to be the Vice President of Xbox Software and Live Servies.

hey major can we expect you to go to EA after next years E3?

just seems like peter moore left for EA shortly after E3 2007 and now john schappert doing the same in 2009

we’ll have no one left by 2015….as long as you and e stay we’ll survive

not cool. bad .ea.

I want Ballmer for the next E3 conference.

Good the faster we get rid of the EA crowd the better. Remember most of the MS execs that came from EA were the same guys that Put out shovelware junk and rushed games to make a buck.