Why Did Microsoft Name it the Xbox "360"? huh

ive had my 360 for almost a year and i just thought, "why xbox 360?"

the player is located in the center blah blah blah all the gaming experience surrounding him, making it a 360 or w.e. thats what i read, or at least remember reading in the oxm before the 360 came out. any help?gow117

Purely a marketing thing I would imagine. Who would want an Xbox 2 when you can buy the PS 3.

Rule of thumb. The consumer is stupid. 3 is bigger than 2, thus better. The fluff about it being gamer-centric is just more marketing. IMHO

360 revolution.

Hence why the next will not be Xbox 720, unless they're looking to go for the dumbest name of all time. "Oh...it's another revolution."

Purely a marketing thing I would imagine. Who would want an Xbox 2 when you can buy the PS 3.

Rule of thumb. The consumer is stupid. 3 is bigger than 2, thus better. The fluff about it being gamer-centric is just more marketing. IMHO

snackdaddy

what he said

Purely a marketing thing I would imagine. Who would want an Xbox 2 when you can buy the PS 3.

Rule of thumb. The consumer is stupid. 3 is bigger than 2, thus better. The fluff about it being gamer-centric is just more marketing. IMHO

snackdaddy

MS didn't want to call it "Xbox 2" because the name of the competing console has a 3 at the end. So people may have been confused and thought it was a generation behind or inferior in some way.Floppy_Jim

At the same time though, "Xbox 2" just sounds terrible. Consoles don't have to follow the 1,2,3 form of naming.

[QUOTE="snackdaddy"]

Purely a marketing thing I would imagine. Who would want an Xbox 2 when you can buy the PS 3.

Rule of thumb. The consumer is stupid. 3 is bigger than 2, thus better. The fluff about it being gamer-centric is just more marketing. IMHO

lbjkurono23

Was that part in the interview?

[QUOTE="snackdaddy"]

Purely a marketing thing I would imagine. Who would want an Xbox 2 when you can buy the PS 3.

Rule of thumb. The consumer is stupid. 3 is bigger than 2, thus better. The fluff about it being gamer-centric is just more marketing. IMHO

JayQproductions

what he said

[QUOTE="lbjkurono23"][QUOTE="snackdaddy"]

Purely a marketing thing I would imagine. Who would want an Xbox 2 when you can buy the PS 3.

Rule of thumb. The consumer is stupid. 3 is bigger than 2, thus better. The fluff about it being gamer-centric is just more marketing. IMHO

Dredg11

Was that part in the interview?

I still have the official UK xbox magazine about how the 360 stands for being in the centre of the experience. It even has a nice picture of multiplible circles with a plyer in each being connected to represent Xbox live.

As for the next xbox, 720 won't do but Xbox 1080 could work. It sounds nice ''xbox.. 10.. 80..'' and withsome nice marketing it would also make sense. ''360°is a flat circle but 1080° brings the xbox into the next dimension!'' (or something like that)

[QUOTE="Floppy_Jim"]MS didn't want to call it "Xbox 2" because the name of the competing console has a 3 at the end. So people may have been confused and thought it was a generation behind or inferior in some way.Dredg11

At the same time though, "Xbox 2" just sounds terrible. Consoles don't have to follow the 1,2,3 form of naming.

MS didn't want to call it "Xbox 2" because the name of the competing console has a 3 at the end. So people may have been confused and thought it was a generation behind or inferior in some way.Floppy_Jim

Once MS sent the designs out to China to be manufactured they already knew there was potential problems and that the units had a high possibility for coming back for warranty repairs. After repairs or replacement it gets sent out to the user, thus completing a full revolution or 360º, thus the Xbox 360 came to fruition.

I WIN!