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BioWare's Greg Zeschuk

Doctor in the house.

EurogamerGoing back to the price point issue, what would you say is ideal? Sony has said they wanted to keep the cost of Move below the price of a game...
Greg Zeschuk

That would be fabulous. It's almost subjective. The price you don't want is something that gives people pause, that makes them think, 'Oh, I can't spend that much money and feel good about myself.'

EurogamerOne source told us the Kinect will cost $189.
Greg Zeschuk

That's a very high price but I've no idea whether that's true or not. Who knows? I think that would be challenging. Unless that's for a bundle, say the Kinect and the slim Xbox 360.

EurogamerFor that money I'd want a Kinect, a console and a Microsoft executive to come round and hook it all up to the telly.
Greg Zeschuk

I have doubts about that price. We'll see what happens but I think that sounds pretty unlikely.

EurogamerWhat did you think about Gabe Newell's comments during the Sony conference, when he said the PS3 version of Portal 2 will be the best one on any console?
Greg Zeschuk

I have no idea... Maybe it's a trick, maybe it won't be on any other consoles? Gabe's a clever guy and I think it comes down to effort. You can make anything great on any platform if you put the effort in, and Valve puts the effort in.

This is Greg before he met Gok Wan. He probably wishes this photo wasn't on the EA website.
EurogamerAre you planning to take sides?
Greg Zeschuk

A platform's a platform, right? EA's an interesting company and we're rascals within it. In the sense we're actually quite platform agnostic. The fact we worked a lot with Microsoft and the Xbox initially doesn't mean we're not big fans of PS3. We'll put our game on as many platforms as make sense for it. We're not too concerned about which is better, there are pluses and minuses to everything.

EurogamerBioWare's well-established now and your games are hugely successful. But when you look at up and coming developers, or new games coming out, what do you worry about? Who keeps you awake at night?
Greg Zeschuk

We don't worry that much about the competition. I have respect for people like Valve, id, Epic, Blizzard, Insomniac, Naughty Dog... You can go down this list of all these great developers and worry yourself silly about what they're going to do. We focus on what we can control, and that is our work. Not that we don't worry in the sense that we're arrogant, but we don't let things worry us.

EurogamerJust to finish up, a quick personal request. When you've finished Star Wars, would you mind doing a Babylon 5 MMO please? All you'd have to do is swap the heads around.
With Micro-Soft KinectOvision, you will be able to reach right in and touch those! Girders.
Greg Zeschuk

Babylon 5 is funny because there's a whole bunch of people at BioWare who are massive, massive fans.

EurogamerI bet.
Greg Zeschuk

It's one of those universes that is very rich and has great potential. I only watched it a bit, but some of the people at BioWare were crazy about it, so I can relate. It's almost like they need to make sure they've got a good update, because if they could get Babylon 5 reignited there's a good opportunity there.

EurogamerWell, like I say. If you get the chance.

Greg Zeschuk is vice president of BioWare Corporation. Ellie Gibson would totally play as Ivanova and get off with Marcus Cole.

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