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MS buys the Xbone.com domain name

elfinke said:
Astonished Xbone.com domain still existed. Or does the article say the WHOIS search is from much earlier in the year?
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wasn't Xbone.com the site that redirected to Amazon's PS4 preorder pages for a while?
I wouldnt be surprised if they just bought it for a high price from whoever had it...
 
I constantly start imagining a new evolution to Cubone whenever I see Xbone.

He would go like Xbone bone bone. And use Xbonemerang and xbone club.
 
Xbone rolls off the tongue so will though. Are people really calling it that because of the bone part? Who the fuck still says boner?
 
Well damn, I've been actively calling it the X1, but seeing as it's now officially acknowedged...

onlyindreams said:
That quote kinda pissed me off too. Didn't the name spring up because everyone felt "boned" by MS trying to introduce all their DRM shit? WE were the ones being disrespected imo
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I thought "Xbone" existed because one of the first games they revealed on the X1 Xbone was COD Dog... Sorry I mean Ghosts.

Which then evolved into getting Xboned (MS' policies).
 
X1 doesn't make me think of the Xbox One at all, XBO certainly not, more like Xbox Body Odour.

XB1 is okay to me, 3-4 character abbreviations are best, less than that and it's too vague.

I also don't mind using Xbone, and don't mean it in a silly or disrespectful way, like others, I just think it rolls off the tongue well.
 
For generations of consoles, gamers have shortened the console/gaming system names.

Nintendo entertainment system - NES.
Super Nintendo entertainment system - SNES.
Personal Computer - PC.
Gameboy - GB.
Gameboy Advanced - GBA.
Nintendo 64 - N64.
Playstation - PSX.
Playstation 2 - PS2.
Playstation 3 - PS3.

And now Xbox one - Xbone.
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The trouble with Xbone is, it was initially used as a joke (the cod dog + Xbox one), BUT it actually fits perfectly as a shortened name and caught on. So as much as MS (or certain people at MS) may not like it, it is pretty much now the shortened name for the system from now on.
 
I don't see how it is disrespectful and if it is disrespectful, it definitely is not disrespectful towards the engineers, but towards the ones who came up with the name "Xbox One".
 
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Steroyd said:
I thought "Xbone" existed because one of the first games they revealed on the X1 Xbone was COD Dog... Sorry I mean Ghosts.
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XBone is just short for XBoxOne (Removing the ox).

Anyway, with Ballmer and Mattrick gone. Now there is just Nelson to ditch. Then Microsoft's PR nightmare will finally be over.
 
MajorMelchett said:
For generations of consoles, gamers have shortened the console names.

Nintendo entertainment system - NES.
Super Nintendo entertainment system - SNES.
Nintendo 64 - N64.
Playstation - PS.
Playstation 2 - PS2.
Playstation 3 - PS3.

And now Xbox one - Xbone.
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The trouble with Xbone is, it was initially used as a joke (the cod dog + Xbox one), BUT it actually fits perfectly as a shortened name and caught on.
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PlayStation was "PSX" not PS.
 
I figure if this does get embraced widely as the consoles shorthand, any Microsoft folk will read it out as 'XB One'.
 
On NeoGAF earlier this week, Major Nelson called the Xbone moniker disrespectful. "I don't like it...it disrespects the teams that have put in thousands of hours (already) into the development of the product. Sure, it's cheeky but I don't care for it myself," he wrote.
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Ha ha, I missed this. How does it disrespect the team working on the hardware?! The only people it disrespects are those who came up with the silly name, and also those who did not analyse it to see if any silly joke names could be formed from it.
 
I thought after the announcement of Xbox One and people starte calling it Xbone that there was word that MS were 'embracing' the moniker? I put that in quotes because thats the exact word used in the piece I read. Can anyone elae remember reading that? What publication?
 
Many people write Xblive instead of XBox live, so how couldn´t MS think of Xbone for XBox One. Did they really think we call it "one" because the xbox 360 was mostly called "360"??
 
I've been a fan of the name since the first time I read it. It's silly and versatile.

The giant corporation needs to lighten up.
 
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