Microsoft tries to out-stupid itself and names its new console "Xbox Series X"

[gbpxl]

Yep that's right. If you thought Xbox One would make things confusing, Microsoft tries to astound us even further by naming its console which will be released in 2020 the "Xbox Series X."

https://youtu.be/8TWSVWhy08s

I tried to think of a name that could be more confusing and I figured the only way itd have been worse would be if they had called it "Original Xbox" or "Xbox Original"

[WelcomeToTheNextLevel]

Xbox Series X? Really?

Sony's naming scheme is perfect. Boring, but perfect. Playstation 1. Playstation 2. Playstation 3. Playstation 4. Playstation 5 coming up.

Nintendo's names are pretty good too (except for Wii U).

I figure it's kind of hard to go from Xbox One. Where do you go? Xbox Two? That would still be better than Xbox Series X. That makes it sound like an upgrade or something, not a new console. At least Xbox Two would be consistent.

[§ Gideon §]

What's next? Naming the 9th version of an operating system 10???

[fluid_matrix]

Nintendo's names are pretty good too (except for Wii U).

The original Wii got a bunch of phallic slack too.

Maybe Microsoft will name their next console the Xbox 18.97366596².

[Gameguy]

Xbox Series Xbox. That should have been the new name if not Xbox One 360.

[Tupin]

The future of console gaming, also known as a small PC tower.

[gbpxl]

Xbox Series X? Really?

Sony's naming scheme is perfect. Boring, but perfect. Playstation 1. Playstation 2. Playstation 3. Playstation 4. Playstation 5 coming up.

Nintendo's names are pretty good too (except for Wii U).

I figure it's kind of hard to go from Xbox One. Where do you go? Xbox Two? That would still be better than Xbox Series X. That makes it sound like an upgrade or something, not a new console. At least Xbox Two would be consistent.

well one of the problems for M$ is that their main competitor was already 1 number ahead of them when it came time to name their 7th gen console. they couldnt call it the Xbox 2 which competed against the PS3. So the simple numbering route was never going to work.

I generally dont like the numbering of console names because it immediately dates those products. Nintendo and Sega did it right by not going that route.

[Aussie2B]

Even Sony has been goofy with naming sometimes. Like you got "PSX" as a code name for the original PlayStation, but then PSX was used as the name of a specific model of PS2. Then you've got PS One as a specific model of the original PlayStation, only for Sony to later refer to the entire system as the PS One, as in "PS One Classics" on PSN.

[kupomogli]

Even Sony has been goofy with naming sometimes. Like you got "PSX" as a code name for the original PlayStation, but then PSX was used as the name of a specific model of PS2. Then you've got PS One as a specific model of the original PlayStation, only for Sony to later refer to the entire system as the PS One, as in "PS One Classics" on PSN.

PS classics may be seen as a culmination of classics from multiple PS consoles, so PS One classics atleast makes it less confusing. PS One classics, PS2 classics, etc. While the PS One was released around when the PS2 was, maybe they thought people were too dumb to know the difference of the original Playstation and PS2, guarantees there's no confusion, it just happened to work perfectly with how they name their digital rereleases, unintentional at the time, no one knew digital releases were going to be big when PS2 launched.

[Aussie2B]

I don't think it was a bad idea to name the redesign PS One. But they could've just as well called the PSN releases PS1 Classics, to keep the PS One name reserved for the specific model.