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> Sometimes they do a good job: > * XBox Oh, do you mean Xbox 1 or Xbox One?

by mixedCase 9y ago

wtf_is_up 9y ago
You know why they call it Xbox360? Because you take one look at it, turn 360 degrees, and walk away.
- barking 9y ago
  you walk into it
- markrages 9y ago
  ...walk away backwards? Why not 180 degrees?
  - ChrisClark 9y ago
    That's the joke, and why it's still quoted.
    - SmellyGeekBoy 9y ago
      On Reddit, maybe...
  - gumby 9y ago
    Don't turn your back on it, apparently
    - sixothree 9y ago
      It's always watching....
  - supergreg 9y ago
    You moonwalk away
- have_faith 9y ago
  Never gets old
  - sixothree 9y ago
    It was old the day it was memed.
    - have_faith 9y ago
      I get that his comment didn't include any reference to machine learning or industry disruption, but did it need to be flagged into oblivion? seems like overkill. Just delete the whole subtree if it's offending people, keeping the sub-comments doesn't make any sense.
- SamBam 9y ago
  Always reminds me of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiCF1QdyxhM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiCF1QdyxhM
- balls187 9y ago
  Because the PS3 was coming out and they didn't want an Xbox 2 to compete with an PS3.
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criddell 9y ago
That's a good point. They kinda did the same thing with One -- OneDrive, OneNote, and XBox One.
- daemin 9y ago
  They bought the company that made OneNote, so I believe it was already a product called OneNote.
  - criddell 9y ago
    Not according to Microsoft: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/chris_pratley/2004/01/30/onenote-genesis/ https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/chris_pratley/2004/01/30/on...
sbarre 9y ago
To be fair the first Xbox was never called the "Xbox 1", it was just called the Xbox.