Next Generation Xbox To Be Called Xbox 360?

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'."

related story

Sony to release Playstation 361.

Re:related story

Actually it will be the Playstation 720 with "Skate or Die!!!" written on the box. Or maybe not, who knows.

New direction

Ah! So Microsoft is going a whole new direction with the XBox by turning 360 degrees!

Re:New direction

No, it's actually going to be 360 times the size of the original.

Re:New direction

Halo BOB. :)

Another quote

"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".

I like XBox Delorean myself

"all those names sound about as next-gen as "delorean""

especially the gull-wing DVD loading bay. Don't have a wall-plug? No worry. Mr. Fusion is built in. Just feed it any old garbage such as your Microsoft EULA printouts, it it is good to go.

Really...

...Microsoft released X-Boxen 2 - 358 already and they just didn't catch on.

So, it will run...

OS/360, OS/VM?

(I am soooo dating myself.)

A pun revived

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?

skipped a few version numbers?

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

Anderson Cooper 360

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"

Re:Anderson Cooper 360

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.

Turning

The new Xbox is a really drastic 360 degree change in direction!

What's up with the Circles?

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...

and the next release of MS Windows will be called "Windows 980"

Roman Numerals?

I always assumed it would be called XIBox.

Oh God!

Let this not be an obscure refrence to the UPN show [dance360.net] with Kel and the other dude.

And then the next one after that will be...

The X-Box AS/400.

Out Tufnel-ing Spinal Tap

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

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?

I'm surprised they're not calling it the XBox 1337...

For those who dont read L33T..

(lucky you) 3=E 6=G 0=0

360=EGO

XBOX: EGO

Doesnt sound so bad actually..

Now we can start with the "leggo my xbox ego" jokes!

Anyway Im not buying this is the actual name, looks more like a marketting campaign (a la "who are you"?) to me.

p.s. You have to remember XBOX2 is suposed to be made with the japanese market in mind, does 360 mean something in japanese culture?

360?

I always thought "Xbox Next" was the best....has a nice ring to it.

Should have been

Xbox 365. It'd be cooler, I think, and remind you how MS thinks you should use their product(s).

Well of course!

"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!

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hmm .. this has to be a joke.

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.

around and around in

Circles like always

Now For the Mathematicians

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 bad

Not a bad name, but the YBox would have been better.

i had a feeling

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.

Typical reaction...

... nearly all Game System names sound stupid at first. PlayStation, DreamCast, XBOX, GameBoy, 3DO (D'oh! D'oh! D'oh!)...

Fake

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.

Really?

You'd think if they were going to go with this name, they would've snapped up the domain name. This guy picked it up over a year ago.

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Gaming360 Limited (XBOX360-COM-DOM)
Gaming360 Limited
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020 8926 2569

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Domain Name: XBOX360.COM
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Better XBOX name...

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.

360 degrees

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...

360

Tony Vivaldi: What is this, Benedict?! First you're my friend; now you turn a... 360 on me!
Benedict: 180, you stupid, spaghetti-slurping cretin -- *180*! If I did a 360, I'd go completely around and end up back where I started!
Tony Vivaldi: What?
Benedict: Trust me!
[shoots him]

Still better sounding then Windows XP

as in the windows Experience.

XBox 360

Roll it over to a friend's house for some on the go fun!

My friend's name...

My friend's name for the XBox sequel...

"XBox 95"

Xbox 360...

...MS should have just called it Xbox4. Sony would be slapping themselves in the face wondering "Why didn't we think of that?"

can't... make... joke... work...

I suppose it's better than the terror and pain that happened when the Borg attacked at XBox 359.

After the Buyouts...

...It'll be the Sontendosoft XRevostation 3.

Degrees?

If these guys were REAL engineers it'd be the XBOX 2?.

The funny rumor I heard

was that the game "discs" will be squares.

XYZZY-Enter-Shift-Box

I am privy to inside information that the new XBox is going to be called the XYZZY-Enter-Shift-Box

hah

When we refer to the PlayStation2 we say "PS2" its just easy that way. But nobody is going to want the long-winded "Xbox 360" and people will end up calling it the Xbox 3 or something. It just doesnt make sense. However, all that could change. Or M$ could just be screwing themselves over...

Xbox 420

Catchy number and easily recognizable and admired by their core customers.

Re:A better name...

Nevermind beaten to it!

Re:My preferences over Xbox 360

You forgot the most logical of all (since it's Microsoft): X.NET