Report: New lead designer, brander working on next Xbox

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Don Coyner, lead designer and marketing man for the original Xbox and the Xbox 360, will not be in charge of the new Xbox design team, Cnet reports. Coyner will be replaced with Emma Williams, who helped launch the recent Xbox Live interface revamp, one of Cnet's sources says.

Coyner joined Microsoft from Nintendo in 1995, and became marketing director for the original Xbox in 1999. Coyner designed the user experience and branding for the Xbox 360, and his most recent title at Microsoft is General Manager of Design. Williams joined Microsoft in 2003 and is currently General Manager of Xbox Experiences, leading last week's Xbox Live interface update that introduced more social, content-specific hubs to the 360.

With the next Xbox rumored for release in 2013, the Live update could be a massive trial period for features to include in the new model, or it could be a secret government study monitoring the effects of cloud storage on adolescent violence. Could be.

Posted: Dec 17, 2011 5:45 am

Source: http://www.joystiq.com/2011/12/16/report-new-lead-designer-brander-working-on-next-xbox/#comments

Comments

iJarH3adPosted: Sat. Dec 17, 2011

xIVIcMuFFiiNx It's pretty sad that all you have to do to find all of the kids on TTG is to just look at the comments.

Everybody making kitchen/sandwich jokes must be 12 or younger. Seriously, grow up.

Everyone is over 13 years old on here...

Not 12 :)

pitythefoolPosted: Sat. Dec 17, 2011

xbox's new dashboard and stuff is hideous, i'm pretty sure we expect a hideous new console and stuff too.

Hawks484Posted: Sat. Dec 17, 2011

we will never see the next Xbox released! know why? the world ends in 2012! MUHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

vokalPosted: Sat. Dec 17, 2011

lol the government doesn't need to monitor cloud storage they have access to every bit of data that goes through cable fiber or phone lines , thanks patriot act.

NaturallyHatedPosted: Sat. Dec 17, 2011

It's pretty sad that all you have to do to find all of the kids on TTG is to just look at the comments.

Everybody making kitchen/sandwich jokes must be 12 or younger. Seriously, grow up.

RemembrancePosted: Sat. Dec 17, 2011

I Honestly don't care for the new xbox design as long as I get better graphics IDC.

MootPosted: Sat. Dec 17, 2011

Great, now they have to spend time to install a kitchen in the development room.

graphicularPosted: Sat. Dec 17, 2011

Hopefully she adds a sandwhich maker in it

ChampzPosted: Sat. Dec 17, 2011

... The person who made the new dash is in charge of designing the next xbox... Well, it seems like we're gonna have a pretty fail of a design.

Oh, and before people say "but Youtube, Dailymotion, and everything else", that all could've been easily integrated into the old dashboard... This dash is way too plain.

mitchrichPosted: Sat. Dec 17, 2011

could be good could be bad no one will know until its been released :D

obv itll need better specs more hdd like minimum of 120 gb max like 320 ?

better shape much more sleek e.t.c and last of all

NO RED RING OF DEATH OR DISC TRAY PROBLEMS

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