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'."

A pun revived

[fm6]

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?

Ah yes... marketspeek

[the_skywise]

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...)

i had a feeling

[yesacs]

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.

Really?

[Anonymous Coward]

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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Re:New direction

[jensen404]

Halo = Circle = 360 degrees Halo is the reason for the xbox's success.