GayForMaster
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Xbone is the best name for it.
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MS buys the Xbone.com domain name
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shinobi602
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recklesscognition
Member
Marketing at a company this size should have caught this while they were naming the thing. This is entry-level marketing stuff. Look at all types of names, nicknames, and abbreviations that might be given to your product.
It's easier to type xbone than it is xb1 because xbone naturally uses two hands and you don't have to lift your hand off the keyboard like when you type xb1.
It's easier to type xbone than it is xb1 because xbone naturally uses two hands and you don't have to lift your hand off the keyboard like when you type xb1.
StealthGoblin
Banned
I have honestly never seen it referred to as X360. I've seen it called 'the 360' in casual conversation, but we can't call the Xbox One 'The One' as that is stupid.
XONE sounds a bit silly too. XBone is inherently silly, but at least its a tad funny.
Winterfang
Banned
Xbone sounds really stupid and it was created as mockery since the reveal was atrocious.
Of course it makes sense. Microsoft did some boneheaded things with this console, and they tried to bone gamers with their anti-consumer practices, which is why Xbone is more appropriate than anything else. And, yes, it's meant to be disrespectful...it's not an accident that it seems that way. Maybe when Microsoft earns back that respect people will stop using the moniker. Until then they can suck it up and deal with it.
NullPointer
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Neuromancer
Member
Haha
That's the best way to handle stuff like this. Crying about how disrespectful it is just makes you look humorless and out of touch.
recklesscognition
Member
Was just talking about xb1 vs. xbone. ps4 is equivelant of xb1, but you really don't have a choice with the playstation it's too long to type out playstation four.
statham
Member
HAHA!
maybe they are just running with it now, Xbox wire has a "have you seen titanfall" article.
KoopaTheCasual
Junior Member
Wait... did this honestly happen? Did someone honestly try to argue this point? Holy hell I can't believe some people.
As for me, I genuinely called the Xbox One the XBOne when I first heard of it. It was simply easier to type than XB1, which required strectching my fingers from my normal resting position to reach the top left corner of my keyboard. A lot of people like me didn't even see the 'harm' in the name, until people who had their feelings hurt pointed it out.
I've subsequently started using the terms "Xbox One" and "XB1", in lieu of a much more comfortable alternative, simply to avoid being labeled as a fanboy. However, you can bet your left buttock that I would have kept saying Xbone, unless instructed otherwise. The name is not the result of fanboy hatred, but the result of a failure in branding and marketing. The Xbox One is a victim of no one else but itself.
unholyrevenger72
Banned
Abbreviations and Nicknames are something you need to take into account when naming something. Ain't no ones fault but your own MS.
Ol No Bones
Banned
Wow 10 pages. Good job gaf!
RedAssedApe
Banned
I know zero people who say X360. Xbone started because of MS policies and it was funny next to COD Ghost dog reveal aka Collar Duty reveal.
Major Nelson made it worse by actually commenting on it. lol
I H8 Memes
Member
This is Microsofts own fault for having such a stupid inferiority complex about having their console be one number below the Playstation.
statham
Member
more like family.
SmoothRunningGun
Member
XBone all day evrrry day.
Neuromancer
Member
We were going to get Xboned by MS, so we developed the term 'Xbone' as a way to Xbone them back. MS decided not to Xbone us after all, because they were getting Xboned so hard in the preorder department. Then after a while had passed they cried about the word Xbone saying it hurt their feelings which we didn't really intend and we feel bad about. Then in a surprise move they bought the domain Xbone, thus validating it all along, and now we're giving them a gentle and humorous Xboning in return.
KoopaTheCasual
Junior Member
Not to mention that XONE is already the acronym for a major manufacturing company/service. That only reinforces the idea that people who called the Xbox 360 the X360, would call the Xbox One the Xbone.
Also I have never heard someone say X360. They always say "The 360". And there's not a chance in hell that "The One" would have caught on.
eddfromtheriver
Banned
For real?... i wonder how Major Nelson feels about that.
statham
Member
Why would anyone on this planet, besides Microsoft's employees/stockholders be irritated about Xbone please? Is that your beloved console?
Irritating is when some people want to stop other people calling this thing the way they want. I dislike XBO (sounds stupid) and X1, but bitching about "OMG why did you call that this" is not something I'd do about it.
TetraGenesis
Member
I'm not going to agree that Xbone is "disrespectful" (implying that a piece of consumer tech deserves respect) but I also don't think IGN is on-point calling the name "mostly-affectionate." Hahahaha
Hypereides
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If majornelson thinks it's disrespectfull then he needs to dig up a sense of humour.
Satire and caricature is part of the life form in this biz.
It's like a politician complaining that a newspaper cartoonist drew a caricature of him.
Satire and caricature is part of the life form in this biz.
It's like a politician complaining that a newspaper cartoonist drew a caricature of him.
TetraGenesis
Member
I think consensus for the 360 is pretty much..."360." Unless you're saying/writing Xbox 360 out in full, you write 360. Not X360. Not XB360.
Kibbles
Member
Nobody called it the x360... It was always Xbox or 360. Something easy to say like xbone.
It's all one big xbone circle.
onlyindreams
Banned
holy shit
ReDelicious
Member
While I completely agree and call it that for the same reason, it's kind of funny seeing so many people say that Xbone rolls off the tongue so well lol.
NullPointer
Member
One big circle bone.
...or cross-bone I guess.
Go the full distance. One bone marked TV, one bone marked Sports, and a skull with Kinect carved into it's temple. And an eye patch to symbolize that you can actually disconnect it now.
TheFLYINGManga_Ka
Member
It's funny how this name got attached to this system.
Almost sounds like a name that mocks the XBOX One.
Almost sounds like a name that mocks the XBOX One.
Fucking kidding me with this?
He has a point considering "Major" Nelson tried to shrug off the issues of real soldiers not being able to play xbone when it had the online DRM system.
chancellor
Member
Not a surprise that they've bought since it will be the most often used shorthand.
Dash Kappei
Not actually that important
"Gamers"? Most of those you quoted are in fact official acronyms (also, it's PSX and not "PS", and it's Game Boy Advance, not "Advanced") with officially designed logos, it's not like Xbone or even X360/360.
Microsoft never cared for nicknames or acronyms for their products, besides afaik Win for "Windows" as in "Win95".
onlyindreams
Banned
His name is a reference to I Dream of Jeannie, just saying. I don't like the guy at all and think he's incredibly slimy but there's far better reasons to shit on him than that.
shinobi602
Member
Dude, it's a Gamertag. It's not serious...
And aren't you confusing that with Don Mattrick?
Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew
Banned
Is it just me or every time Major Nelson feels disrespected, Microsoft make it worse for him by making it official.