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> Wii U, which Nintendo marketed so badly many people thought it was an extension for their Wii I can't decide if that's better or worse than Xbox. Xbox One is
by dehrmann 3y ago
> Wii U, which Nintendo marketed so badly many people thought it was an extension for their Wii
I can't decide if that's better or worse than Xbox. Xbox One isn't the original Xbox? And do I want Series S or X?
- zirgs 3y agoMicrosoft decided to name their consoles that way, because they didn't want their console to be one number behind the PlayStation.
- fomine3 3y agoThey solved it on 360. Its successor should be 361.
- happymellon 3y agoXBox 365.
- chihuahua 3y agoXbox N Enterprise Edition
- sbm_au 3y agoThey could have used increasing rotational degrees - Xbox 360, 540, 720, 900 and so on. Just like action sports, very extreme.
- falcor84 3y agoOf course, and then, when they're ready to go all-in, they'll backfill Xbox 180 /s
- ginko 3y agoThey also could have gone with Super Xbox or Xbox⁶⁴.
- alpaca128 3y agoSo instead they chose three numbers behind the PlayStation, and 359 numbers behind its predecessor? Not sure I follow that reasoning. Not to mention they could just jump to the same number as PlayStation used, just like MS also skipped Windows 9. That said all the jokes at the time likely helped make it clear to everyone that the Xbox One was the new model. And Series S/X is just two letters, nobody seems too confused by that.
- zirgs 3y agoThey chose a naming system that's not based on sequential numbers to both differentiate themselves from SONY and also to avoid being one number behind. Nintendo is doing the same.
- Guillaume86 3y agoThey should have skip a number and aligned on PS numbers
- happymellon 3y agoAnd at a glance I have no idea whether S is better than One without going to Wikipedia.
- wodenokoto 3y agoXbox names are the worst. Just look at these names: one, one S, one X, series X and series S I had so much trouble figuring out which xbox was “the new one” when I considered buying one last year.
- dm_me_dogs 3y agoI'm a pretty big supporter of Xbox (had every console they've so far released, heavy into Game Pass) and my god they need to get naming right. They should have called it the "Xbox 4" or something to make it simple. Though, Microsoft is never one for making names simple.
- jeroenhd 3y agoXbox naming is terrible but at least their target audience seems to know how to keep them apart. I don't think that can be said about Nintendo's audience, which since the Wii has always seemed not as dedicated to console gaming as their competitors' audience is. I've never heard of a die-hard Wii fan, at least, though with the Switch they made up a lot of ground.