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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'."
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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".
(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.
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.
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?
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.
"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!
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.
Go ahead MOD my day!
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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
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.
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.
I'm sure the BufferOverflowBox would follow the ZBox.
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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...
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