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Next Generation Xbox To Be Called Xbox 360?
An anonymous reader writes "Gamesite Engadget has a story claiming via a trusted source that says the next generation Xbox (codename Xenon) will be called Xbox 360." From the article: "Our source, who has worked on several projects involving the Xbox and the Xbox 360, has seen the proposed packaging and other design elements for the new console..last year a marketing firm conducted a survey where they asked people whether they thought Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, or Nintendo N5 sounded more 'next-gen'."
Sony to release Playstation 361.
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Ah! So Microsoft is going a whole new direction with the XBox by turning 360 degrees!
If Microsoft was mass, stupidity would be gravity.
"last year a marketing firm conducted a survey where they asked people whether they thought Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, or Nintendo N5 sounded more 'next-gen'."
Also this marketing firm concluded the Xbox 360 name was, "So phat it was sick".
...Microsoft released X-Boxen 2 - 358 already and they just didn't catch on.
(I am soooo dating myself.)
You could've hired me.
I thought it was bad when they went from Windows 3 to Windows 95.
If you had super powers, would you use them for good, or for awesome?
The 360 thing is so "trendy" just like 24/7 was a year and a half ago. If this was 1984, they'd call it "XBox XT"
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
The new Xbox is a really drastic 360 degree change in direction!
especially the gull-wing DVD loading bay. Don't have a wall-plug? No worry. Mr. Fusion is built in. Just feed it any old garbage such as your Microsoft EULA printouts, it it is good to go.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
As soon as I heard the word "XBox 360" it made me think "XBox Revolution" and then thoughts of Nintendo's codename ran through my head for their next product. Maybe all of their games will make you start spinning around and around until you're so dizzy you won't know what price you're paying to buy every game they have.
I understand why they don't want to call it XBox 2, and I agree with that. It does sound behind the times. Maybe for "Xbox 3" it will be XBox 1024x768 or who knows what.
It'll run 360 days, and then it'll die. This will force you to go get a new one with updated DRM. :)
Pretty Pictures!
Run away, run away, RUN AWAY!!!
If my answers frighten you, stop asking scary questions.
They probably had the same idea IBM had: "We'll call it the 360 because it's an all-around system!" (The System 360 was the first computer with byte-level addressing, breaking down the distinction between "Scientific" and "Business" computers.) I wonder if IBM will sue?
What about simply
xXx
Then you could advertise it with the tagline
"Vin Diesel's going to make you his bitch"
and the next release of MS Windows will be called "Windows 980"
When information is power, privacy is freedom.
I always assumed it would be called XIBox.
Best Windows Freeware
Let this not be an obscure refrence to the UPN show with Kel and the other dude.
'tis but a scratch.
The X-Box AS/400.
"Eve of Destruction", it's not just for old hippies anymore...
Is this Microsoft's version of David Tufnel's classic "Spinal Tap" bit in which he shows off his special guitar amp that was custom-made for him by Marshall and is better than the regular version, because it goes to eleven.
"The 360 is better, innit? Because, you see, it's 355 more than the N5, and 357 more than the PS3."
All they need are exploding drummers and the circle (ahem) will be complete...
DO NOT LEAVE IT IS NOT REAL
XBox 360 - It's a box.. so it's square... but it's 360, so its a sphere!
It's square AND it's round!
It's mindboggling kewl that it can do two things at once!
(I'm willing to bet somebody in Microsoft suggested XBox '05 but got shot down because that would confuse people who thought it was the 5th XBox version...)
I'm surprised they're not calling it the XBox 1337...
I'll turn into a supernova and burn up everything. Well I'll turn into a black little hole and you'll turn into string.
(lucky you) 3=E 6=G 0=0
360=EGO
XBOX: EGO
Doesnt sound so bad actually..
Now we can start with the "leggo my xbox ego" jokes!
Anyway Im not buying this is the actual name, looks more like a marketting campaign (a la "who are you"?) to me.
p.s. You have to remember XBOX2 is suposed to be made with the japanese market in mind, does 360 mean something in japanese culture?
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I always thought "Xbox Next" was the best....has a nice ring to it.
Xbox 365. It'd be cooler, I think, and remind you how MS thinks you should use their product(s).
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"last year a marketing firm conducted a survey where they asked people whether they thought Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, or Nintendo N5 sounded more 'next-gen'."
Well of COURSE they would pick Xbox 360 if those where the only choices. The only other options would result in copyright infringement. Even the strong legal arm of MS would be no match for that kind of blatant usage of competitor trademark!
Microsoft announced that they will be dropping the standard polygon approach in favor of using a new CircularSDK. Release titles are said to include the mystify screensaver for windows 3.1
After thinking about it a bit more. I think this has to be a joke or a fake of somekind.
360 is a revolution (obviously), so it means: Xbox revolution pun intended no the Nintendo revolution console.
Xbox360.com is already registered to someone with a yahoo mail address so all this theory seems pretty unlikely.
I think X2, XNXT or Xenon seems like more possible choices.
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Circles like always
If you make a 360 turn/rotation, you end up facing the same direction or even ending up the same place as you began. Ah Microsoft...
I guess MS will be dizzy after being spun a 360 ( or 720 or 1080) by Sony
If you're more mathematically inclined you can think of it as Xbox 2pi! And since pi is a transcendental number, you've got your tag line ready made.
"Xbox 2pi, playing in another dimension!"
Or something like that...Yeah, it's a reach.
To the making of books there is no end, so let's get started
Not a bad name, but the YBox would have been better.
OddManIn: A Game of guns and game theory.
I used to work for a design/marketing firm (not telling, sorry, but you know their work), and over the summer I started to see packaging specs and comps referring to the xbox 360. At the time, I thought it was for a possible xbox redesign. That was the last i saw, because after some stuff started to leak, only certain people in the company were allowed in the rooms were they were just printing stuff. I think xbox f5 (like refresh, i guess) or fs (couldn't tell because of the font) were in there too.
Announcer: Krusty The Clown is brought to you by the new XBox 360... It's slightly faster! To the maaaax!
Bart: 360? And I'm stuck with this useless XBox 1? (Kicks it into the fireplace)
XBox: Don't destroy me! I can still make you happy! To the maaaax!
... nearly all Game System names sound stupid at first. PlayStation, DreamCast, XBOX, GameBoy, 3DO (D'oh! D'oh! D'oh!)...
"Derp de derp."
Their source is either wrong or mistaken, the aforementioned survey was distributed by Edelman PR Worldwide, on retainer by Sony Japan. The Playstation 3 is the only real system moniker, the "Xbox 360" being a joke, referencing past Sony comments that Microsoft wasn't so much taking the system (Xbox 2) in a new direction, but in fact just turning in circles (paraphrased from memory). And N5 being simply the Fifth home console evolution in the Nintendo line. Both are fake.
How about XBox 2pi?
Did you get that thing I sent ya?
Xbox^2, where the superscript is larger than print of the Xbox nameo m
Xbox!! (but the exclamations have to be slanty, or else it just won't work)
Xbox Again...DAMN
Xb(O_O)x
Elevenbox
XxBbOoXx@msn.c
Xbox All The Fuck Around You (playing on the circular theme)
Xbox Infinite Bloody Neon Booger Green Ouroboros (ditto)
Xbox Sunshine Gleaming Off A Baby's Shiny Round [Bottom/Head] (you get the picture)
And my favorite...Xbox Trendyfuck Edition 3.11 for Playgroups
How about Next-Box, I mean come on, it has the word next in the name, you can't get more 'next gen' unless you were put gen somewhere in the name, but such actions would explode men's minds.
I call BS. The Xbox is...a box. 360 is the number of degrees in a circle. So it's going to be a round box? Think about it.
Note the picture in the article...
http://www.bynarystudio.com
The name proves it! They're just planning to show us the same old scenery....
as in the windows Experience.
I bring this up a lot too. People forget how odd the names sound once they become mainstream. Howver, I like the PlayStation name from day 1, and still do. Dreamcast was a little silly but ok. The XBox always sounded silly to me. (X is an unknown, and we put it in a box:Unknown stuff innabox?). 3DO had some meaning to somebody, but not to me.
The GameBoy though. Absolutely great name for the original product. However, it's time for an upgrade on that. You can't be 30 in todays society and be seen as credible with a Game 'boy'. The DS is a *little* bit more mature, but still seen as a gameboy as DS doesn't really replace the moniker adequately. I hope the next GameBoy (if indeed there is one), will have a name as descriptive and concise as the Playstation.
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I thought this was the name? I musta been in some alternate dimension or something :O
"Whoa, dude, did you check out that new XBOX 360?" (*gulps Mountain Dew*)
"Yeah man, that thing is gonna be siiiiick!"
"Sweet dude! Let's shred!"
XBOX360: It's RAD!
-Your Friend AC
the name "n5" is new to me, wasn't it called "Revolution"?
"XBox 95"
Ack! Do you realize the overload that would occur if both Apple and Nintendo were competing in the same market? The paradox of having to choose one over the other is mind boggling!
Get me a meat pie floater!
...MS should have just called it Xbox4. Sony would be slapping themselves in the face wondering "Why didn't we think of that?"
Get Virtual.
I thought everyone knew that the next one would be called XXBox. And the next one after that... the XXXBox!
My guess is that it will start selling at $360.
Those who can, do. Those who can't, consult.
I suppose it's better than the terror and pain that happened when the Borg attacked at XBox 359.
...It'll be the Sontendosoft XRevostation 3.
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If these guys were REAL engineers it'd be the XBOX 2?.
As soon as I heard the word "XBox 360" it made me think "XBox Revolution" and then thoughts of Nintendo's codename ran through my head for their next product.
Not my head. To me, there is no honor without pi, and there is no revolution without arrows.
...from the Okama GameSphere
was that the game "discs" will be squares.
I am privy to inside information that the new XBox is going to be called the XYZZY-Enter-Shift-Box
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"Those who quote others are more likely to one day be quoted" -Tom Planter
When we refer to the PlayStation2 we say "PS2" its just easy that way. But nobody is going to want the long-winded "Xbox 360" and people will end up calling it the Xbox 3 or something. It just doesnt make sense. However, all that could change. Or M$ could just be screwing themselves over...
Catchy number and easily recognizable and admired by their core customers.
why not just call it EggBox.
Is it only a friggin 2D thing? I for one like at least three degrees of freedom and that would be 1080. So what kind of idiots are running the XBox naming scheme? Are MS cronies trying to get the most popular name by testing the waters at cool sites? XBox or CrossBox -> CrushBox has been proven wrong... next step in evolution? XXBox or yust plain and simple X-2 (X-II)? Nope don't think so... it has to have some LIVE element in it too... LiveBox perhaps... lame... ABox is already taken, BBox is way to similar to BeOS, YBox why oh why... ZBox sounds kinda cool but Americans pronounce Z (Zed) wrong so it loses its lustre and sounds German. And it will have the cell technology... CellBox... way too corny but it sounds like SellBox... probably even worse... LiveCell but that is too far from the past... X usualy stands for fail so perhaps it will become the CheckBox to indicate that MS takes it more seriously now... but that was the Amiga so that is off the limits too. WinBox (WBox) is probably the only name they can use that doesn't infringe on anything that they don't have. X2Box, XIIBox -> ChiiBox... But why does it need to be a box? XFridge... XLith (as in Monolith) XCrate oh my oh my... XCon sounds too fishy... Now we can do the car extensions XBox 3000, XBox Turbo, XBox GT argh not fun... HEXBox sounds cool maybe too cool... why not ReXBox as in King of consoles and Re-XBox :-D I like that one... I think it will be RexBox. And oh by the way MS... you herd it from me first! I am sending my bill :-D