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Microsoft decided to name their consoles that way, because they didn't want their console to be one number behind the PlayStation.
by zirgs 3y ago
Microsoft 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