Xbox2 is now 'Xbox 360' ?

[Sir Chewbury Gubbins]

XBox Next would be fitting with current game nomenclature theory
("kids are getting tired of endless sequels... so we'll start adding
subtitles and dropping the numerical designators!")

Yeah, but as soon as the console was released, the name would be
completely meaningless. It wouldn't be the next console - it'd be the
current console. Unless, of course, it's even bigger and heavier than
the current xbox in which there's a solid case for using its immense
gravitational field to power a quantum shift which would temporally
superposition it.

Or something.

Choobs

 

[Bill Cable]

"Xbox" was an awful name to begin with. Microsoft should just ditch that
name altogether. Go with "Microsoft Xenon" or something.

But I agree that the games are more important than the name. But we're
gamers. They're thinking about the public at large... and the "first on the
block" crowd. Even the best games in the world couldn't move the "Two guys
kissing box."

 

[Neil Hopkins]

"Xbox" was an awful name to begin with. Microsoft should just ditch that
name altogether. Go with "Microsoft Xenon" or something.

What about the "Scoopex"?

 

[Bob Cronin]

Simple marketing tactics. Nintendo's hyping the "Nintendo Revolution".
A revolution is a 360-degree rotation. It's a "Me-too!" by Microsoft.

OMG, makes me think its a reborn IBM 360 mainframe (from the 1960's ;-).
But I spose the target demographic probly can't relate to that, lol.

 

[Doug Jacobs]

because the number is 2 is less than PlayStation 3, and also less hip. We'd
take Xbox Next over Xbox 360 anyday. Why not call it Mary-Kate and Ashley
Box, or Fish Box, or RoxBox, instead? Or....Why not call it something

I'm sure lots of people would *love* to play with Mary-Kate & Ashley's
box...

Yes, that was tasteless, but I just couldn't let that opening slide by.

"clever" like Xbox 1080? that would get Nintendo riled up, and maybe some
former Nintendo fanboys would consider buying it. Heh. Xbox 2 is sounding
better every minute...

XBox 1080 sounds sort of cool, but also reminds me of the Atari 7800 and
we all know how well that console did.

Activision's Pure Sequel Holiday?
Recent reports have claimed that Activision is embarking on an "all-sequel"
launch for Microsoft's upcoming Xbox 2/Xenon/Xbox 360/Xbox Next. Unlike
previous launches where Activision diversified its games between new titles
and sequels, this rumor claims that four major, AAA games will slam the Xbox
at launch (or, we suspect, with in the first four months of launch). They
include Quake IV, Call of Duty 2, Tony Hawk Underground 3, and Spider-Man
Ultimate. Wow, a sequel holiday.

How is this different from the rest of the XBox lineup? Not one original
title in the bunch. Everything's a sequel. Another DOA, another
DOA:Volleyball, another Halo, etc. Not that sequels are a bad thing -
after all, if you've got an established franchise, it's easier to sell
sequels/spin-offs. Look at Nintendo, for example. But every so often I'd
like something...different... Not a sequel.

 

[Doug Jacobs]

IGN totally called it on this one. Xbox 2 sounds "lesser" than PlayStation
3? Jesus. Why don't they just arbitrarily skip a few numbers and call it
Xbox 4 then? Or Xbox 1337? "Get it? It's LEET! All the kids will love it!"
Morons.

First, this IS Microsoft we're talking about here. They were afraid of
releasing Windows 4.0 when MacOS was at ver. or 8. When Microsoft missed
their original shipdate, they named it Win95 (as a joke, at first), thus
starting that whole stupid trend of naming your product after the year.

So if they want to be "bigger" than PS3, they should call it Xbox'05. Or
if they want to give a yell out to the Japanese market, call it Xbox
Rooster, or something like that, since this is the lunar year of the
chicken/rooster.

 

[Andrew Ryan Chang]

First, this IS Microsoft we're talking about here. They were afraid of
releasing Windows 4.0 when MacOS was at ver. or 8. When Microsoft missed
their original shipdate, they named it Win95 (as a joke, at first), thus
starting that whole stupid trend of naming your product after the year.

Which is fine in 1995 but awful in 1997...

So if they want to be "bigger" than PS3, they should call it Xbox'05. Or

And since console generations last four-six years, there's no way
they'd name it XBox '05.

 

[Doug Jacobs]

Which is fine in 1995 but awful in 1997...

Yeah, well, one could point out that Win9x was pretty much a joke
anyways. After all, it only took Microsoft a decade to do what MacOS did
back in 1984.

And since console generations last four-six years, there's no way
they'd name it XBox '05.

Well, they could tweak the number 5. XboxV? Five is "quinque" in latin,
not that I know how to pronounce it, but you could tweak it, I'm sure.
Quin sounds sort of like Quan, so Xbox Quantum? Xbox Quantum V?

If XBox will be on the market for 5 years, how about "Xbox Bi-Decadium"?

Just avoid French. 5 = cinq (sounds like "sink") so "Xbox Sink" doesn't
sound good. Although in (Mandarin) Chinese, 5 = "wu" (sounds like ooh!
or Wu from Wu tang clan) so then you'd get "Xbox Wu!" Or "WuBox!"

Or, just a blatant attempt to appeal to the Japanese market: Go Xbox Go
Go Go! ("go" = five in Japanese, The Mach 5 was a sort of bilingual pun
in Japanese) Or, going with the Speed Racer theme, "Console X", the
mysterious console with a secret background...

Maybe there's a reason I never went into marketing...

 

[USAF LM]

Yeah, well, one could point out that Win9x was pretty much a joke
anyways. After all, it only took Microsoft a decade to do what MacOS did
back in 1984.




Well, they could tweak the number 5. XboxV? Five is "quinque" in latin,
not that I know how to pronounce it, but you could tweak it, I'm sure.
Quin sounds sort of like Quan, so Xbox Quantum? Xbox Quantum V?

If XBox will be on the market for 5 years, how about "Xbox Bi-Decadium"?

Just avoid French. 5 = cinq (sounds like "sink") so "Xbox Sink" doesn't
sound good. Although in (Mandarin) Chinese, 5 = "wu" (sounds like ooh!
or Wu from Wu tang clan) so then you'd get "Xbox Wu!" Or "WuBox!"

Xbox w00t!!!!

 

[Doug Jacobs]

Xbox w00t!!!!

That's too cool of a name for Microsoft's naming consultants to come up
with.

(any bets on how long it'll be before we start seeing products named in
l33t?)

 

[Jim Campey]

Yeah, well, one could point out that Win9x was pretty much a joke
anyways. After all, it only took Microsoft a decade to do what MacOS did
back in 1984.



Well, they could tweak the number 5. XboxV? Five is "quinque" in latin,
not that I know how to pronounce it, but you could tweak it, I'm sure.
Quin sounds sort of like Quan, so Xbox Quantum? Xbox Quantum V?

If XBox will be on the market for 5 years, how about "Xbox Bi-Decadium"?

Just avoid French. 5 = cinq (sounds like "sink") so "Xbox Sink" doesn't
sound good. Although in (Mandarin) Chinese, 5 = "wu" (sounds like ooh!
or Wu from Wu tang clan) so then you'd get "Xbox Wu!" Or "WuBox!"

Or, just a blatant attempt to appeal to the Japanese market: Go Xbox Go
Go Go! ("go" = five in Japanese, The Mach 5 was a sort of bilingual pun
in Japanese) Or, going with the Speed Racer theme, "Console X", the
mysterious console with a secret background...

Maybe there's a reason I never went into marketing...

You should try comedy. I was chuckling whilst reading that

 

[HockeyTownUSA]

That's too cool of a name for Microsoft's naming consultants to come up
with.

(any bets on how long it'll be before we start seeing products named in
l33t?)

Just call it The Box and it will appeal to lesbians too!

 

[Nick Vargish]

(any bets on how long it'll be before we start seeing products named in
l33t?)

Driv3r called, they want their marketing plan back.

Nick

 

[USAF LM]

Driv3r called, they want their marketing plan back.

They'll have to license that technology from the people who made Se7en.

 

[Doug Jacobs]

(any bets on how long it'll be before we start seeing products named in
l33t?)

I'm so silly. I'd totally forgotten about the old software company,
"Br0derbund" which had an umlaut'd old-style "0" (the one with the slash
through it) which I guess would make it both German and leet...

 

[Paul Angstrom]

I'm so silly. I'd totally forgotten about the old software company,
"Br0derbund" which had an umlaut'd old-style "0" (the one with the slash
through it) which I guess would make it both German and leet...

You mean Brøderbund.

The Ø character is Scandinavian in origin, not German.
It is the Ö character which has umlauts and is German.

 

[Zomoniac]

They'll have to license that technology from the people who made Se7en.

I believe it was started in the 70s when Elvis Costello wrote a song called
"5ive Gears In Reverse".

Zo

 

[Heckler]

XBox Next would be fitting with current game nomenclature theory
("kids are getting tired of endless sequels... so we'll start adding
subtitles and dropping the numerical designators!")

Anyways, I've been banging the "Nintendo 65" drum for years now,
not that I thought it up, and I see no reason to stop now. "XBox 65"
would also be fine.

I think they should just call it neXtBox, it sounds like XBox but is
sufficiently creative to be easy to say and market. XBox 360 doesn't
roll of the tounge well, Playstation 3 does, as Does Game Cube or
Revolution.


H

 

[Doug Jacobs]

I think they should just call it neXtBox, it sounds like XBox but is
sufficiently creative to be easy to say and market. XBox 360 doesn't
roll of the tounge well, Playstation 3 does, as Does Game Cube or
Revolution.

Nextbox would be logical, but Microsoft would have to purchase the rights
to the name as it was used by (now defunct) Next Computers. That would be
pretty fun though, since NeXt was run by...Steve Jobs.

 

[Fish! - of Arcadia.]

Nextbox would be logical, but Microsoft would have to purchase the rights
to the name as it was used by (now defunct) Next Computers. That would be
pretty fun though, since NeXt was run by...Steve Jobs.

Xbox 360 has a "3" in it, this is a marketing ploy to confuse new buyers
into thinking it's the Xbox's 3rd generation ala PS3.