Official Xbox One Thread

[FirstBlood]

It's not really voice controlled, it just has an app.

Also the X1 is a few years old now, probably just now rolling out in your area.

[Yoshi]

With any luck, the FCC will squash that merger and it will never roll out here. Maybe it was just a national commercial. I can't remember what channel it was.

[MechDeus]

Bill Gates: Innovator. Multi Billionaire. Retard?

Not even a little. Quite an intelligent and charitable man, by most accounts.

All jokes aside...what is the logic behind these names, and does anyone agree that the PS1-PS2-PS3-PS4 naming scheme is much cleaner and makes more sense?

Cleaner than the Xbox naming scheme and more sensible, yes, but also lazy, bland, and stunningly uninspired. I rather preferred the unique titles that Sega did such as Master System to Genesis to Saturn to Dreamcast.

Car names are equally silly but I still prefer Impreza over something like Super Subaru 8.

[MechDeus]

TOYOTA SIXTY FOURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

[kedawa]

I'm more bothered by Microsoft's baffling decision to attach the XBOX brand to stuff that has nothing to do with their game consoles.
What the fuck does the Windows Phone music app have to do with an XBOX?

[FirstBlood]

It's not baffling.

They look at the #1 usage rate of Netflix and go "hey people use this dumb box for all that other stuff because it can, lets try to make some money".

[kedawa]

It doesn't seem to be helping any of their moribund services, though.
Just look at XBOX Games for Windows 8.

[Tyler_Durden]

Not even a little. Quite an intelligent and charitable man, by most accounts. Cleaner than the Xbox naming scheme and more sensible, yes, but also lazy, bland, and stunningly uninspired. I rather preferred the unique titles that Sega did such as Master System to Genesis to Saturn to Dreamcast.

Car names are equally silly but I still prefer Impreza over something like Super Subaru 8.

I don't actually think Bill Gates is retarded. He's clearly a genius. I doubt he's even in charge of naming these consoles, but whoever is should be fired.

I think Sega's console names are inspired too but comparing them to Microsoft's is giving M$ too much credit (notice I put a dollar sign instead of the letter S because, witty). What is Bill going to call the fourth Xbox? Xbox Two?

Or maybe Xbox Zero, if we're counting backwards now. Or Xbox 720: Tony Hawk's Pro Skater Edition, just to really confuse the shit out of people.

In terms of the market an uninformed customer could easily assume the Xbox One is the predecessor to the 360. Perhaps that's why the PS4 is briskly outselling it

Let's apply this logic to movies. Coming soon, the long awaited sequel to Taken 2: Taken One. Or movie studios: Twentieth Century Fox has now been rebranded: Nineteenth Century Fox.

I'm not saying Playstation's 1-4 naming system is brilliant. I'm just saying the name Xbox One is notably retarded.

[Josh]

Bill Gates doesn't work for Microsoft.

[MechDeus]

I doubt he's even in charge of naming these consoles, but whoever is should be fired.

As I recall they tried a bunch of different names and people actually wanted Xbox. The numbers afterwards are silly, sure, but Xbox and PlayStation are easily among the worst console names we've ever had (I think the Atari scheme of plain numbered 2600 and 5200 might beat those out).

Sometimes I'm sad when the codenames don't get used. I rather liked Dolphin.

Let's apply this logic to movies. Coming soon, the long awaited sequel to Taken 2: Taken One.

Only when the consoles are direct narrative sequels and not unique machines. Until then I also prefer the naming scheme of something like Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, and The Dark Knight Rises over Batman, Batman 2, and Batman 3.