My theory is that the Xbox naming strategy is designed to maximize the confusion of older relatives buying consoles as gifts. You'd be able to pawn more old models off on grandmas who thought it was the right one, and a fraction of the recipients of those old consoles would likely keep it and buy a newer one eventually.

Either that or someone at Sony was blackmailing Microsoft's chief naming officer. I can't think of another coherent reason for that mess.

[–] mirshafie@europe.pub 4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

It was just a moronic perception that in the choice between Xbox2 and PS3, buyers would pick the bigger number.

But then they shot themselves in the foot because where do you go from 360?

[–] Rubanski@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

720 of course

[–] mirshafie@europe.pub 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

But 360 is 720 is 0

[–] Rubanski@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 weeks ago

It's a transformation in 3D space along the z axis

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

And the easy answer is to release a peripheral that upgrades the original a bit, call it the Xbox 2, then release the 3 alongside the ps3

[–] mirshafie@europe.pub 2 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah or if their research really showed that 3>2 was going to be decisive to their bottom line, just fucking skip two places ahead and call it the Xbox4. Who's going to stop you?