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Zackman

2005-02-13, 12:42 pm

NEXT BOX wrote:

quote:

> The latest candidate, which is one we've heard before
> and which is possibly the stickiest, is Xbox 360. Xbox 360? Xbox 360.

Truly, this is the stupidest name for a console since TurboGrafx-16. I
really hope they're not dumb enough to actually go with this.

quote:

> Microsoft executives, for some undetermined reason, are worried about
> calling the new console "Xbox 2" because the number is 2 is less than
> PlayStation 3, and also less hip. We'd take Xbox Next over Xbox 360
> anyday. Why not call it Mary-Kate and Ashley Box, or Fish Box, or
> RoxBox, instead? Or....Why not call it something "clever" like Xbox
> 1080? that would get Nintendo riled up, and maybe some former
> Nintendo fanboys would consider buying it. Heh. Xbox 2 is sounding
> better every minute...

IGN totally called it on this one. Xbox 2 sounds "lesser" than PlayStation
3? Jesus. Why don't they just arbitrarily skip a few numbers and call it
Xbox 4 then? Or Xbox 1337? "Get it? It's LEET! All the kids will love it!"
Morons.

-Z-

Arcane Hayter

2005-02-13, 12:42 pm

Hey, I always thought TurboGrafx-16 sounded way cooler than Genesis and
"Super" Nintendo, but back then I had a mullet - so what the hell.
How do you guys feel about the number game though? I mean really. Most
people that aren't really in the "know" about videogames are always
going to call the Playstation a Playstation and the Xbox an Xbox, no
matter what number is currently supposed to follow behind it. I would
welcome something else to distinguish one generation from the next. As
long as I don't have to see 'uber' on a console box I'd be fine with
about anything besides a number.

Aaron J. Bossig

2005-02-13, 12:42 pm

"Zackman" <zackman@SPAMISEVILearthling.net> wrote in
news:beidnQQtuPAxspjfRVn-tg@giganews.com:

quote:

>
> Why don't they just arbitrarily skip a few
> numbers and call it Xbox 4 then? Or Xbox 1337? "Get it? It's LEET! All
> the kids will love it!" Morons.

Actually, I don't think that's very far-fetched.

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Andrew Ryan Chang

2005-02-13, 12:42 pm

Zackman <zackman@SPAMISEVILearthling.net> wrote:

quote:

>NEXT BOX wrote:
>
>IGN totally called it on this one. Xbox 2 sounds "lesser" than PlayStation
>3? Jesus. Why don't they just arbitrarily skip a few numbers and call it
>Xbox 4 then? Or Xbox 1337? "Get it? It's LEET! All the kids will love it!"
>Morons.

XBox Next would be fitting with current game nomenclature theory
("kids are getting tired of endless sequels... so we'll start adding
subtitles and dropping the numerical designators!")

Anyways, I've been banging the "Nintendo 65" drum for years now,
not that I thought it up, and I see no reason to stop now. "XBox 65"
would also be fine.

--
Damned if you do, darned if you don't.

Sir Chewbury Gubbins

2005-02-13, 12:42 pm

Andrew Ryan Chang <archang@sfu.ca> wrote:

quote:

> XBox Next would be fitting with current game nomenclature theory
> ("kids are getting tired of endless sequels... so we'll start adding
> subtitles and dropping the numerical designators!")

Yeah, but as soon as the console was released, the name would be
completely meaningless. It wouldn't be the next console - it'd be the
current console. Unless, of course, it's even bigger and heavier than
the current xbox in which there's a solid case for using its immense
gravitational field to power a quantum shift which would temporally
superposition it.

Or something.

Choobs

--
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Knight of the Wholly Gnarly Widget
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2005-02-13, 12:42 pm

"Arcane Hayter" <arcane.hayter@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1107636989.006287.275310@l41g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...

quote:

> As
> long as I don't have to see 'uber' on a console box I'd be fine with
> about anything besides a number.
>

If it ever gets "X Treme" or any varient there of, its automatic that I will
never buy one.

as far as 'uber' .. I could always write goober behind it.

Doug Jacobs

2005-02-13, 12:42 pm

In alt.games.video.sony-playstation2 NEXT BOX <nextbox@xbox2.net> wrote:

quote:

> because the number is 2 is less than PlayStation 3, and also less hip. We'd
> take Xbox Next over Xbox 360 anyday. Why not call it Mary-Kate and Ashley
> Box, or Fish Box, or RoxBox, instead? Or....Why not call it something

I'm sure lots of people would *love* to play with Mary-Kate & Ashley's
box...

Yes, that was tasteless, but I just couldn't let that opening slide by.

quote:

> "clever" like Xbox 1080? that would get Nintendo riled up, and maybe some
> former Nintendo fanboys would consider buying it. Heh. Xbox 2 is sounding
> better every minute...

XBox 1080 sounds sort of cool, but also reminds me of the Atari 7800 and
we all know how well that console did.

quote:

> Activision's Pure Sequel Holiday?
> Recent reports have claimed that Activision is embarking on an "all-sequel"
> launch for Microsoft's upcoming Xbox 2/Xenon/Xbox 360/Xbox Next. Unlike
> previous launches where Activision diversified its games between new titles
> and sequels, this rumor claims that four major, AAA games will slam the Xbox
> at launch (or, we suspect, with in the first four months of launch). They
> include Quake IV, Call of Duty 2, Tony Hawk Underground 3, and Spider-Man
> Ultimate. Wow, a sequel holiday.

How is this different from the rest of the XBox lineup? Not one original
title in the bunch. Everything's a sequel. Another DOA, another
DOA:Volleyball, another Halo, etc. Not that sequels are a bad thing -
after all, if you've got an established franchise, it's easier to sell
sequels/spin-offs. Look at Nintendo, for example. But every so often I'd
like something...different... Not a sequel.

Doug Jacobs

2005-02-13, 12:42 pm

In alt.games.video.sony-playstation2 Zackman <zackman@spamisevilearthling.net> wrote:

quote:

> IGN totally called it on this one. Xbox 2 sounds "lesser" than PlayStation
> 3? Jesus. Why don't they just arbitrarily skip a few numbers and call it
> Xbox 4 then? Or Xbox 1337? "Get it? It's LEET! All the kids will love it!"
> Morons.

First, this IS Microsoft we're talking about here. They were afraid of
releasing Windows 4.0 when MacOS was at ver. or 8. When Microsoft missed
their original shipdate, they named it Win95 (as a joke, at first), thus
starting that whole stupid trend of naming your product after the year.

So if they want to be "bigger" than PS3, they should call it Xbox'05. Or
if they want to give a yell out to the Japanese market, call it Xbox
Rooster, or something like that, since this is the lunar year of the
chicken/rooster.

Doug Jacobs

2005-02-13, 12:42 pm

In alt.games.video.sony-playstation2 Arcane Hayter <arcane.hayter@gmail.com> wrote:

quote:

> How do you guys feel about the number game though? I mean really. Most
> people that aren't really in the "know" about videogames are always
> going to call the Playstation a Playstation and the Xbox an Xbox, no
> matter what number is currently supposed to follow behind it. I would
> welcome something else to distinguish one generation from the next. As
> long as I don't have to see 'uber' on a console box I'd be fine with
> about anything besides a number.

You'd be surprised... Can't tell you how many people would talk about the
Nintendo Playstation, or the Sony Xbox, for instance. If the average
consumer can't even get the name straight, how do you expect to get the
numbers straight? And how do you explain to someone that xbox1 is better
than ps2 when 2>1? No, seriously, I've seen products tack on a number so
that they appear "better" than their competitor who has a smaller number
in their name. Yes, it's stupid.

Andrew Ryan Chang

2005-02-13, 12:43 pm

Doug Jacobs <djacobs@shell.rawbw.com> wrote:

quote:

>First, this IS Microsoft we're talking about here. They were afraid of
>releasing Windows 4.0 when MacOS was at ver. or 8. When Microsoft missed
>their original shipdate, they named it Win95 (as a joke, at first), thus
>starting that whole stupid trend of naming your product after the year.

Which is fine in 1995 but awful in 1997...

quote:

>So if they want to be "bigger" than PS3, they should call it Xbox'05. Or

And since console generations last four-six years, there's no way
they'd name it XBox '05.

--
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Symphony, contained over 60,000 movements; over the course of its only perfor-
mance, several members of the orchestra retired and were replaced by their
children or grandchildren." -Encyclopedia Frobozzica.

Doug Jacobs

2005-02-13, 12:43 pm

In alt.games.video.sony-playstation2 Andrew Ryan Chang <archang@sfu.ca> wrote:

quote:

> Which is fine in 1995 but awful in 1997...

Yeah, well, one could point out that Win9x was pretty much a joke
anyways. After all, it only took Microsoft a decade to do what MacOS did
back in 1984. ;)

quote:

[vbcol=seagreen]
> And since console generations last four-six years, there's no way
> they'd name it XBox '05.

Well, they could tweak the number 5. XboxV? Five is "quinque" in latin,
not that I know how to pronounce it, but you could tweak it, I'm sure.
Quin sounds sort of like Quan, so Xbox Quantum? Xbox Quantum V?

If XBox will be on the market for 5 years, how about "Xbox Bi-Decadium"?

Just avoid French. 5 = cinq (sounds like "sink") so "Xbox Sink" doesn't
sound good. Although in (Mandarin) Chinese, 5 = "wu" (sounds like ooh!
or Wu from Wu tang clan) so then you'd get "Xbox Wu!" Or "WuBox!"

Or, just a blatant attempt to appeal to the Japanese market: Go Xbox Go
Go Go! ("go" = five in Japanese, The Mach 5 was a sort of bilingual pun
in Japanese) Or, going with the Speed Racer theme, "Console X", the
mysterious console with a secret background... ;)

Maybe there's a reason I never went into marketing...

USAF LM

2005-02-13, 12:43 pm

Doug Jacobs wrote:

quote:

> In alt.games.video.sony-playstation2 Andrew Ryan Chang <archang@sfu.ca> wrote:
>
>
>
>
> Yeah, well, one could point out that Win9x was pretty much a joke
> anyways. After all, it only took Microsoft a decade to do what MacOS did
> back in 1984. ;)
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Well, they could tweak the number 5. XboxV? Five is "quinque" in latin,
> not that I know how to pronounce it, but you could tweak it, I'm sure.
> Quin sounds sort of like Quan, so Xbox Quantum? Xbox Quantum V?
>
> If XBox will be on the market for 5 years, how about "Xbox Bi-Decadium"?
>
> Just avoid French. 5 = cinq (sounds like "sink") so "Xbox Sink" doesn't
> sound good. Although in (Mandarin) Chinese, 5 = "wu" (sounds like ooh!
> or Wu from Wu tang clan) so then you'd get "Xbox Wu!" Or "WuBox!"

Xbox w00t!!!!

Doug Jacobs

2005-02-13, 12:43 pm

In alt.games.video.sony-playstation2 USAF LM <MMMmmmmm@spam.eat> wrote:

quote:

[vbcol=seagreen]
> Xbox w00t!!!!

That's too cool of a name for Microsoft's naming consultants to come up
with.

(any bets on how long it'll be before we start seeing products named in
l33t?)

Jim Campey

2005-02-13, 12:43 pm

On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 00:00:27 -0000, Doug Jacobs
<djacobs@shell.rawbw.com> wrote:

quote:

>In alt.games.video.sony-playstation2 Andrew Ryan Chang <archang@sfu.ca> wrote:
>
>
>Yeah, well, one could point out that Win9x was pretty much a joke
>anyways. After all, it only took Microsoft a decade to do what MacOS did
>back in 1984. ;)
>
>
>
>Well, they could tweak the number 5. XboxV? Five is "quinque" in latin,
>not that I know how to pronounce it, but you could tweak it, I'm sure.
>Quin sounds sort of like Quan, so Xbox Quantum? Xbox Quantum V?
>
>If XBox will be on the market for 5 years, how about "Xbox Bi-Decadium"?
>
>Just avoid French. 5 = cinq (sounds like "sink") so "Xbox Sink" doesn't
>sound good. Although in (Mandarin) Chinese, 5 = "wu" (sounds like ooh!
>or Wu from Wu tang clan) so then you'd get "Xbox Wu!" Or "WuBox!"
>
>Or, just a blatant attempt to appeal to the Japanese market: Go Xbox Go
>Go Go! ("go" = five in Japanese, The Mach 5 was a sort of bilingual pun
>in Japanese) Or, going with the Speed Racer theme, "Console X", the
>mysterious console with a secret background... ;)
>
>Maybe there's a reason I never went into marketing...

You should try comedy. I was chuckling whilst reading that ;)

--
Jim
[GT:Hedcase]

Click...click...click..damn, out of taglines!

HockeyTownUSA

2005-02-13, 12:43 pm

"Doug Jacobs" <djacobs@shell.rawbw.com> wrote in message
news:110kktdhnv6gmac@corp.supernews.com...

quote:

> In alt.games.video.sony-playstation2 USAF LM <MMMmmmmm@spam.eat> wrote:
>
>
>
> That's too cool of a name for Microsoft's naming consultants to come up
> with.
>
> (any bets on how long it'll be before we start seeing products named in
> l33t?)

Just call it The Box and it will appeal to lesbians too!

Ryan Cousineau

2005-02-13, 12:43 pm

In article <110kktdhnv6gmac@corp.supernews.com>,
Doug Jacobs <djacobs@shell.rawbw.com> wrote:

quote:

> In alt.games.video.sony-playstation2 USAF LM <MMMmmmmm@spam.eat> wrote:
>
>
>
> That's too cool of a name for Microsoft's naming consultants to come up
> with.
>
> (any bets on how long it'll be before we start seeing products named in
> l33t?)

You mean ":CueCat" wasn't? Noting as I will that there has already been
one well-noted branding exercise involving a made-up symbol with no
pronounciation, I think I'm already prepared for a l33t naming project.

Can't believe they resisted "XBox xp",
--
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Verus de parvis; verus de magnis.

Nick Vargish

2005-02-13, 12:43 pm

Doug Jacobs <djacobs@shell.rawbw.com> writes:

quote:

> (any bets on how long it'll be before we start seeing products named in
> l33t?)

Driv3r called, they want their marketing plan back.

Nick

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USAF LM

2005-02-13, 12:43 pm

Nick Vargish wrote:

quote:

> Doug Jacobs <djacobs@shell.rawbw.com> writes:
>
>
>
>
> Driv3r called, they want their marketing plan back.

They'll have to license that technology from the people who made Se7en.

Doug Jacobs

2005-02-13, 12:43 pm

In alt.games.video.sony-playstation2 Doug Jacobs <djacobs@shell.rawbw.com> wrote:

quote:

> (any bets on how long it'll be before we start seeing products named in
> l33t?)

I'm so silly. I'd totally forgotten about the old software company,
"Br0derbund" which had an umlaut'd old-style "0" (the one with the slash
through it) which I guess would make it both German and leet...

Paul Angstrom

2005-02-13, 12:43 pm

On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 19:05:00 -0000, Doug Jacobs
<djacobs@shell.rawbw.com> wrote in message
<110nc2s6g90dt90@corp.supernews.com>:

quote:

>In alt.games.video.sony-playstation2 Doug Jacobs <djacobs@shell.rawbw.com> wrote:
>
>
>I'm so silly. I'd totally forgotten about the old software company,
>"Br0derbund" which had an umlaut'd old-style "0" (the one with the slash
>through it) which I guess would make it both German and leet...

You mean Brøderbund.

The Ø character is Scandinavian in origin, not German.
It is the Ö character which has umlauts and is German.

Zomoniac

2005-02-13, 12:43 pm

On 10/2/05 5:55 pm, in article 110n816qo6r447c@corp.supernews.com, "USAF LM"
<MMMmmmmm@spam.eat> wrote:

quote:

> Nick Vargish wrote:
>
> They'll have to license that technology from the people who made Se7en.

I believe it was started in the 70s when Elvis Costello wrote a song called
"5ive Gears In Reverse".

Zo

Heckler

2005-02-14, 6:15 pm

Andrew Ryan Chang wrote:

quote:

> Zackman <zackman@SPAMISEVILearthling.net> wrote:
>
>
>
> XBox Next would be fitting with current game nomenclature theory
> ("kids are getting tired of endless sequels... so we'll start adding
> subtitles and dropping the numerical designators!")
>
> Anyways, I've been banging the "Nintendo 65" drum for years now,
> not that I thought it up, and I see no reason to stop now. "XBox 65"
> would also be fine.
>

I think they should just call it neXtBox, it sounds like XBox but is
sufficiently creative to be easy to say and market. XBox 360 doesn't
roll of the tounge well, Playstation 3 does, as Does Game Cube or
Revolution.

H

Doug Jacobs

2005-02-14, 6:15 pm

In alt.games.video.sony-playstation2 Heckler <spam@spam.com> wrote:

quote:

> I think they should just call it neXtBox, it sounds like XBox but is
> sufficiently creative to be easy to say and market. XBox 360 doesn't
> roll of the tounge well, Playstation 3 does, as Does Game Cube or
> Revolution.

Nextbox would be logical, but Microsoft would have to purchase the rights
to the name as it was used by (now defunct) Next Computers. That would be
pretty fun though, since NeXt was run by...Steve Jobs.

steve s

2005-02-15, 4:11 am

"Doug Jacobs" <djacobs@shell.rawbw.com> wrote in message
news:1111v8h3mtsks19@corp.supernews.com...

quote:

> In alt.games.video.sony-playstation2 Heckler <spam@spam.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> Nextbox would be logical, but Microsoft would have to purchase the rights
> to the name as it was used by (now defunct) Next Computers. That would be
> pretty fun though, since NeXt was run by...Steve Jobs.

Too long of a name for the attention span challenged.
......Xbox, Ybox, Zbox?

Fish! - of Arcadia.

2005-02-15, 4:11 am

In article <1111v8h3mtsks19@corp.supernews.com>, djacobs@shell.rawbw.com
says...

quote:

> In alt.games.video.sony-playstation2 Heckler <spam@spam.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> Nextbox would be logical, but Microsoft would have to purchase the rights
> to the name as it was used by (now defunct) Next Computers. That would be
> pretty fun though, since NeXt was run by...Steve Jobs.
>

Xbox 360 has a "3" in it, this is a marketing ploy to confuse new buyers
into thinking it's the Xbox's 3rd generation ala PS3.

Pluvious

2005-02-15, 6:28 pm

On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 14:07:10 +1100, Fish! - of Arcadia.
<tastyfish@fugu.com> wrote:

quote:

>In article <1111v8h3mtsks19@corp.supernews.com>, djacobs@shell.rawbw.com
>says...
>
>
>Xbox 360 has a "3" in it, this is a marketing ploy to confuse new buyers
>into thinking it's the Xbox's 3rd generation ala PS3.

I think its pretty obvious if this name is correct that the new unit
will be ROUND. Duh.

Pluvious

Fish! - of Arcadia.

2005-02-15, 10:10 pm

In article <kgn4119be47dng6kb05cv45401u6rbp8or@4ax.com>,
Pluvious@knowhere.com says...

quote:

> On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 14:07:10 +1100, Fish! - of Arcadia.
> <tastyfish@fugu.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> I think its pretty obvious if this name is correct that the new unit
> will be ROUND. Duh.
>
> Pluvious
>
>
>

or run Hot.

Doug Jacobs

2005-02-15, 10:10 pm

In alt.games.video.sony-playstation2 Fish! - of Arcadia. <tastyfish@fugu.com> wrote:

quote:

> or run Hot.

That's if you get the "performance kit" which consists of an airfoil,
neon light underbody add-on, and stickers that say "Powered By Sony" on
them. ;)

Joe Ottoson

2005-02-18, 4:14 am

"Zackman" <zackman@SPAMISEVILearthling.net> wrote in
news:beidnQQtuPAxspjfRVn-tg@giganews.com:

quote:

> NEXT BOX wrote:
>
>
> Truly, this is the stupidest name for a console since TurboGrafx-16. I
> really hope they're not dumb enough to actually go with this.

You know, the MS 3:16 would be rockass.

Or MS Whupass

Or MS Gamasutra

aether

2005-02-18, 10:10 pm

Needless to say, 'Xbox 360' is a cheesy name for a console.