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This article was published by Michael Leary (@Terronium-12) on December 19th, 2019 in the Gaming category.
Microsoft's Next Xbox is Actually Just Called 'Xbox', Apparently
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- mustafur
Just Call it Xbox 4 and never think about making stupid names again for the future ones.
No one cares what some delusional Marketing department thinks makes a Console sell, all it does it make it confusing as a name.
Xbox one is already stupid because now you have to call the first generation Console the Original Xbox to not confuse people when talking about it.
No one cares what some delusional Marketing department thinks makes a Console sell, all it does it make it confusing as a name.
Xbox one is already stupid because now you have to call the first generation Console the Original Xbox to not confuse people when talking about it.
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Scene: 75 years in the future, Commander Scott is at the holodeck doors.
"The android at the bar said you could show me my old console. Lemme see it."
Insufficient data. Please specify parameters.
"The Xbox! Show me the Xbox, yer chatterin' piece of…"
There have been six consoles with that name. Please specify by model number.
"X-B-O-X, no bloody 360, One, S, X, or Series X."
Program complete. Enter when ready.
"The android at the bar said you could show me my old console. Lemme see it."
Insufficient data. Please specify parameters.
"The Xbox! Show me the Xbox, yer chatterin' piece of…"
There have been six consoles with that name. Please specify by model number.
"X-B-O-X, no bloody 360, One, S, X, or Series X."
Program complete. Enter when ready.
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- KR_Viper
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This criticism never made any sense to me. No one ever called the OG Xbox anything other than "Xbox", so I fail to see how Xbox One confuses one for the other.
I think that criticism is better levied at the original PlayStation which legitimately features the same original console, albeit smaller named PlayStation One.
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- mustafur
Playstations is as simple as possible and even though it's a different design the Playstation One is the same console just slim.
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- KR_Viper
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The console's third revision would be called the Xbox One 2 (3)
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- mustafur
Yes.
I don't know how it is for you, but it's Australian Nature to shorten everything, the amount of times someone has called an Xbox one just Xbox for me and then I clarified they meant Xbox one, only for me to say the latest one because it just makes me think of the Original is confusing.
Playstation solves that just by calling it PS1.
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- SleezyBigSlim
I had the original Xbox back in the day and the first Fortza game. Game sucked, I went back to GT4, sold my Xbox and never looked back.
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- bloodyboyblue
My girlfriend works at a used game store, customers phone in saying they have an “Xbox 1” to sell, then bring in an original Xbox. It’s because it’s the first one, it’s #1. The same people call 360 just Xbox and the whole thing just collapses from there.
The multitude of DS and 3DS variations cause almost as much confusion.
Never overestimate the intelligence of the public.
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- Lma_robot
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Something which has already been happening for some time, really. I don't think it's been any different ever since they decided to make a second console. You'd still have people saying Oh I have an Xbox(or even Playstation) disregarding any exact title the console has. This just sounds a bit blown out of proportion.
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- Giorgos_Ferrari
Thats 🤬 XBOX is gonna end up as the Porsche 911 of consoles..
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- KR_Viper
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Except, when spoken aloud, calling it PS1 is incorrect, unless you're specifically referring to the slim model. PSX is also incorrect, despite it being its original codename as that now refers to the failed DVR from 2003 (?). If we're going to split hairs, then let's split all of the hairs.
Understand, I'm not being combative for the laughs. I'm trying to understand how Xbox nomenclature riles so many feathers, yet the PlayStation is always used as the de facto standard when it can be (and has been) just as confusing in every one of these examples that tend to come to light.
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They got the box part right...
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- mustafur
It might not be technically correct but for everyone it's simple because the Playstation one is still the same Console and the PSX is soo rare most people dont know it even exists.Except, when spoken aloud, calling it PS1 is incorrect, unless you're specifically referring to the slim model. PSX is also incorrect, despite it being its original codename as that now refers to the failed DVR from 2003 (?). If we're going to split hairs, then let's split all of the hairs.
Understand, I'm not being combative for the laughs. I'm trying to understand how Xbox nomenclature riles so many feathers, yet the PlayStation is always used as the de facto standard when it can be (and has been) just as confusing in every one of these examples that tend to come to light.
The Xbox is clearly more confusing especially when it comes to people not familiar with gaming, explaining it to non gaming people is not as easy as you make it sound.
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I will just call it "New Xbox" or "New Xbox Series" when talking to someone about it. There, how hard was that?
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