That's why it was the Xbox 360 and not the Xbox 2, because XBox 2 < Playstation 3.
That felt to me like Microsoft deciding that their original concerns had never been legitimate.
I still think it was an awful branding decision, though.
Instead, Microsoft pretty much alienated their core gaming base in order to half-assedly fail at a broader goal. They didn't even manage to push through more than a couple of decent Kinect v2 games </ArmchairExecutive>
Ironically the PS 4 did outsell the X1 almost 2:1.
Users generally choose the phone, not the OS. And the most popular phones are pretty close on the numbering schemes.
Another example is SSL and TLS. SSL 3.0 was the last version, then TLS 1.0 took over, but a lot of people still thought SSL 3.0 was the latest and best.
The difference also becomes less meaningful as the disparity grows. If Chrome is on version 78, and Firefox is on version 6 (or whatever), it's relatively intuitive that "versions" don't mean the same thing between the two. Same with the Playstation 3 versus Xbox 360, really.
Most people probably don't even know what version they're running, anyway.