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Next Generation Xbox To Be Called Xbox 360? 157

Posted by Zonk
from the wrap-around-xboxen dept.
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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Next Generation Xbox To Be Called Xbox 360?

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  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

All theoretical chemistry is really physics; and all theoretical chemists know it. -- Richard P. Feynman

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