Xbox 180

[Viraneth]

Has anyone heard anything about it?
I've heard rumors that it is confirmed. Is it?

[Leo_A]

There is no such thing, its a term a few idiots have applied to the the first Xbox now that its' successor is on the market. Another stupid term that seems more common is calling it a OG Xbox.

Why people just don't keep calling it by its name, and using 360 or the full name for the current system, I don't know. Gamers like coming up with stupid acronym's and terms, like shumps or whatever that one is...

[Viraneth]

Thanks, this helped a bit.
So no xbox handeld?
Dissapointment! XD

[ProgrammingAce]

Of course there's an xbox handheld. It's called the Zune. Check the footage from GDC 2008 for more details...

[JunkTheMagicDragon]

ms' entertainment & devices division has enough to worry about keeping the 360 and zune profitable.

for right now, i think they're content to let their ips make money on the ds.

[MrSparkle]

xbox handheld no problem all you need is a ton of money and ben heck.

[Rob2600]

Gamers like coming up with stupid acronym's

Don't forget "PSX."

[joedick]

Gamers like coming up with stupid acronym's and terms, like shumps or whatever that one is...

Don't forget "PSX."

Didn't Sony come up with that one themselves?

[Rob2600]

Didn't Sony come up with that one themselves?

The official Sony PlayStation logo was a red, yellow, green, and blue "PS," yet tons of people called it the PSX.

[ProgrammingAce]

Yes, but internal Sony documents from the Nintendo/Sony era abbreviate it to the PSX, even back when the system was called the "Play Station". So that one belongs to sony.

[The 1 2 P]

The official Sony PlayStation logo was a red, yellow, green, and blue "PS," yet tons of people called it the PSX.

But later Sony actually made a system called the PSX: a PS2, tivo-like recording all in one device with different hard drive sizes. The people still calling the Playstation the PSX apparently missed this Japan-only release.

[Half Japanese]

If we're talking 'official' abbreviations, GCN has to be one of the worst. NGC makes perfect sense, as it implies Nintendo Gamecube, wheras GCN implies Gamecube Nintendo, the verbalization of which would get you laughed out of your local game store.

[MachineGex]

Sony had a poster with PSX on it just after launch. I use to have it. It was abbreviated and the "X" was red with the "PS" printed in black. It had the controller buttons on it as well. This poster was all over the place during the launch. Toys-r-us had them hanging along with most stores. Most people who bought the PSX at launch call it a PSX.

[Jorpho]

The other notion frequently cited is that, as the Playstation ultimately owes its existence to Nintendo's desire for a SNES CD-ROM extension, it internally followed the same naming convention of the other SNES add-on, the Bandai Satellaview-X.

But then, DMG was the internal code for the original Game Boy, and you'll probably never see that anywhere.

Getting back to the topic at hand, I've never been clear on the status of the original XBox Live. Can you still go online and purchase new stuff made for the original XBox? Is there a particular naming convention used to differentiate XBox Live content for the original XBox from content for the XBox 360?

[scooterb23]

Wake me when the XBox 540 into a fakie 50-50 rail grind comes out.

[Cornelius]

I hate when people use that stupid, made up, PS1 abbreviation. There was a PSOne, but Playstation never used PS1, certainly not for the ugly grey box.
/end sarcasm

PSX seems just as valid as PS1. I use them interchangeable, but lean towards PSX ever since some thread where people were bitching about it.

[Leo_A]

Getting back to the topic at hand, I've never been clear on the status of the original XBox Live. Can you still go online and purchase new stuff made for the original XBox? Is there a particular naming convention used to differentiate XBox Live content for the original XBox from content for the XBox 360?

I don't understand your question. Most of the content is still there and accessed like it always was, by entering the DLC section of the ingame menu of whatever Xbox game you own that had any, or by placing in a Xbox Live Arcade disc if you want access to the original XBLA.

There's no need for it to be on Xbox 360's marketplace, and none of it is there. It's done the same way when playing a Xbox game in backwards compatibility mode on the 360, I've downloaded stuff for several games in recent months like Crimson Sky, PGR2, Pirates, and a few other titles. Only exception might've been Halo 2's final map pack, I seem to remember that could be purchased using MS Points so they might've temporarily made it available on marketplace for 360 owners who didn't want to use a CC.

[ProgrammingAce]

Only exception might've been Halo 2's final map pack, I seem to remember that could be purchased using MS Points so they might've temporariliy made it available on marketplace for 360 owners who didn't want to use a CC.

They tried, but couldn't get that to work. You had to pay cash to get the maps. I think they're free now anyway though, aren't they?

[Leo_A]

Yeah, Halo content becomes free after 4 months or so.

[NE146]

There is no such thing. The proper terminology is this:

Xbox = Xbox 1.0
360 = Xbox 1.5