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Re:Unlaunching the 12GB 4080 by eastbound on Friday October 14, 2022 @02:17PM (#33206985)
Sony’s naming problem is not because of engineers; It’s clearly the marketing team, and the goal is most certainly to make this incomparable, across continents, across years, or between the one that was given to the reviewers/journals/comparators and the ones that the customers can actually purchase.

Sony’s problem is that they try to sell bad products for the price of expensive ones, and the best way to do that is to have incomprehensible names.

Re:Unlaunching the 12GB 4080 by ShroudedNight on Friday October 14, 2022 @02:50PM (#33207378)
The MDR-7506 has just as obscure a name as anything they're selling; it's not clear to me that the naming is so much a strategy as a lack thereof...
Re:Unlaunching the 12GB 4080 by Someone on Friday October 14, 2022 @06:31PM (#33209576)
I think the goal is more so that big chains can sell model numbers that nobody else sells, making it risk-free for them to promise “we’ll match any cheaper price”.