Amazon Luna’s Marc Whitten Has Left the Building
Only five months after the reveal of Amazon Luna, vice president Marc Whitten has left the company for a new position at Unity Create. An eagle-eyed Twitter user known as Matthew Ball discovered on LinkedIn that the vice president had already left the company for Unity Create despite how fresh Amazon Luna is. While Amazon Luna is still in the early testing stages, Google Stadia will bring cloud gaming to your living room today.
According to Twitter user Matthew Ball, Marc Whitten left the Amazon Luna crew during February. Marc Whitten was previously the Chief Procurement Officer at Sonos and Xbox. With his experience with Sonos, Xbox, and recently Amazon Luna, it looks like Marc Whitten has tons to offer Unity Create. While Whitten was only vice president of Amazon Luna for a matter of months, nobody seems to be scorned by the departure.
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Amazon’s head of Fire TV and Luna cloud gaming has left for Unity
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Amazon’s head of Fire TV, Kindle, and its new Luna cloud gaming service departed the company this month. Marc Whitten has joined Unity as an executive on the company’s Unity Create business. Unity is a cross-platform game engine that many developers use to get their games running across multiple devices.
Whitten’s departure, spotted by Matthew Ball on Twitter, comes less than six months after Amazon launched an early access version of Luna, the company’s new cloud gaming service. It also comes during the same month Google announced it’s shutting down its in-house game development studios for Stadia. That’s left the writing on the wall for Stadia, as it increasingly looks like Google will focus on licensing the underlying tech it has built out to industry partners.
Marc Whitten has left Amazon to join Unity Technologies, just five months after launching the company s Luna cloud gaming service.
Whitten joined Amazon in June 2016 as vice president of its Entertainment Devices and Services division that covered Fire TV, Fire Tablet, Kindle, Amazon Appstore and, most recently, Luna.
The cloud service started to roll out in September last year. However, despite the service still being in an early access form, Whitten left for a new role this month.
As VGC noted, Whitten s decision to depart Amazon to become general manager of Unity Create was handled quietly given the importance of both positions.