Xbox Co-Creator Joins Amazon To Work On “New Ideas”

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Xbox Co-Creator Joins

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To Work On “New Ideas”

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J Allard, one of the chief designers of the original Xbox, has joined

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, but it’s too soon to say if he’ll be working on anything related to video games.

Allard confirmed to

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that he is the vice president of

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’s devices and services team. He declined to go into specifics on what he’s working on, but said he’ll contribute to “new ideas.” Allard’s boss at

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is Panos Panay, the former Windows and Surface boss at

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, according to

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Allard is an Xbox legend, having worked at

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for nearly 20 years. During his time there, he was instrumental in the formation of the team that created the original Xbox. He also led the development of Xbox Live and the Xbox 360. Additionally, Allard ran the team responsible for

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’s iPod competitor, the Zune. Allard left

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in 2010.

Allard joined Tommy Tallarico’s Intellivision as a contractor who worked with the company to

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. He left in summer 2020 because it was “not a good fit.”

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has a video game division, but it’s unknown of Allard will contribute to it. The

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he’s joining runs the Alexa and Echo products, along with the game-streaming service Luna. This team also runs the Project Kuiper project that aims to launch thousands of satellites into low-earth orbit to increase broadband access around the world.

As for Xbox,

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is creating a next-gen console that aims to offer the “largest technical leap” in console history. These are just words for now, as

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has provided no information on how it might achieve this or any timetable for this console’s release.

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