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Next Generation Xbox To Be Called Xbox 360?

Posted by Zonk on Mon Feb 07, 2005 01:32 PM
from the wrap-around-xboxen dept.
XBox (Games)
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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  • related story (Score:4, Funny)

    by drxray (839725) on Monday February 07 2005, @01:34PM (#11598829) Homepage
    Sony to release Playstation 361.

  • New direction (Score:5, Funny)

    by RasendeRutje (829555) on Monday February 07 2005, @01:34PM (#11598835)
    Ah! So Microsoft is going a whole new direction with the XBox by turning 360 degrees!

  • Another quote (Score:4, Funny)

    by Fr05t (69968) on Monday February 07 2005, @01:35PM (#11598847)
    "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".
  • ...Microsoft released X-Boxen 2 - 358 already and they just didn't catch on.
  • OS/360, OS/VM?

    (I am soooo dating myself.)

    • A pun revived (Score:4, Interesting)

      by fm6 (162816) on Monday February 07 2005, @01:46PM (#11598992) Homepage Journal
      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?
    • More importantly, will it have a model wearing a plaid miniskirt and beehive hairdo smiling, extolling how she can now service multiple jobs at the same time?
    • The scary part is that since it's CPU is IBM-based, it might just.
      • Because apparently, no one else will.

        No, I don't think my wife would like that, and my kids would likely be confused.

        "Mommy: do people come apart like machines?" "No." "Then why is Daddy on the phone bragging about how he screwed the ass off his secretary?"

  • I thought it was bad when they went from Windows 3 to Windows 95.

  • Anderson Cooper 360 (Score:5, Funny)

    by AtariAmarok (451306) on Monday February 07 2005, @01:38PM (#11598892)
    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"
    • A few years ago I realized that my brand new Dell laptop had XT as the last two characters in the model number.

      I chuckled silently to myself and then realized how damn geeky I was.

      but, wow. what a great machine....IBM XT was my first computer (in 1995 nonetheless). good times good times

    • Re:Anderson Cooper 360 (Score:4, Informative)

      by PhotoBoy (684898) on Saturday February 12 2005, @06:41PM (#11655072)
      I actually took part in the market research for the name (I got an email invite to partticipate from a GameSpot "affiliate") and Xbox 247 was actually one of the potential names, along with 360, FS, HD and a few others I can't remember anymore.

  • What's up with the Circles? (Score:5, Funny)

    by stpitner (164196) on Monday February 07 2005, @01:42PM (#11598942)
    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.
  • and the next release of MS Windows will be called "Windows 980"
  • 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'.

    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...

  • Ah yes... marketspeek (Score:4, Interesting)

    by the_skywise (189793) on Monday February 07 2005, @02:08PM (#11599263)
    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...)

  • No XBox 1337? (Score:5, Funny)

    by justforaday (560408) on Monday February 07 2005, @02:15PM (#11599347)
    I'm surprised they're not calling it the XBox 1337...
  • "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!

  • hmm .. this has to be a joke. (Score:3, Informative)

    by AzraelKans (697974) on Monday February 07 2005, @02:54PM (#11599783) Homepage
    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.

  • Now For the Mathematicians (Score:3, Funny)

    by blueZhift (652272) on Monday February 07 2005, @03:00PM (#11599854) Homepage Journal
    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.
  • Not a bad name, but the YBox would have been better.
  • 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.
  • ... nearly all Game System names sound stupid at first. PlayStation, DreamCast, XBOX, GameBoy, 3DO (D'oh! D'oh! D'oh!)...

  • Fake (Score:4, Informative)

    by Dixie Flatliner (850959) on Monday February 07 2005, @03:11PM (#11599973)
    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.

  • Better XBOX name... (Score:3, Funny)

    by softspokenrevolution (644206) on Monday February 07 2005, @04:03PM (#11600469) Journal
    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...
    • NeXTBox is cooler. It could run NeXTBOX as its OS, and then those crazy gnu's could make openBox and OPENBOX and a whole whack of crazy naming schemes. Then Apple would buy out MS's xbox division, and make the xbox not look ugly. But it would cost 4000$. People would complain. Then they'd come out with a 499$ version. People would complain that they can get a Nintendo Revolution 2 for cheaper, but savvy readers would notice you get more games bundled with the OSXbox, and that it comes with more controllers.
      • *. People would complain that they can get a Nintendo Revolution 2 for cheaper, but savvy readers would notice you get more games bundled with the OSXbox, and that it comes with more controllers. *

        then they would notice that the 499$ version doesn't come with controllers at all - but it doesn't matter according to some guys on the internet because you already have controllers from your old xbox and snes.

        memory card upgrade is also a ripoff.
        • Except the controllers it didn't come with only had one button, just like the Atari 2600. First they gripe that the controller only has one button, then they gripe that they're forced to choose their own damn controller. There's just no satsifying the slashbots.

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