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J Allard Chimes in On XNA on Zune! [Big-Wig Diggs!] |
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Written by ACE
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Saturday, 15 March 2008 |
 J Allard, Corporate Vice President, Design and Development, Entertainment and Devices Division of Microsoft Corp, has made it known how he feels about games coming to Zune, and sheds some light on what he envisions Zune to be in the future! At a recent Zune Retreat in the Puget Sound area, Allard gave insight as to how long Microsoft has actually been working to get games on Zune, and that he's very motivated to this goal! Then they passed out XNA-enhanced Zunes for the reporters to check out! More after the click....
“We wanted to make sure we kept Xbox brand recognition with respect XNA on Zune so we had several priorities
to manage simultaneously.” Allard told a group of reporters.... “We didn’t want people to think
‘Tetris on the iPod,’ we wanted them to think ‘Xbox 360 in my pocket’
so we knew what we had to do.” he continued.
That's very surprising, and a sharp contrast to what other Microsoft employees have said, but this is very encouraging to see that Zune is actually being taken seriously as going further in functionality. And according to Allard, Microsoft has been working on this initiative for many months without being able to speak about it! While the tone of the source of this article is quite negative, I thought just the reference alone is something worth noting. I would caution anyone who doesn't like sarcasm before clicking the source link. But get ready fellow Zuners! Games are definitely coming and now looks to have some big-wigs pushing for it! [via SarcasticGamer.com]
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