Microsoft’s naming scheme has to be one of the biggest self-goals in console gaming. Number go up.
Back in the 1980s you got your Mom to buy you a game console and you would have needed a logical naming scheme so she would know an PS 3 was better than a PS 2.
XBOX cultivates a "gamer" who is heavily invested in the identity and is well educated in the various versions of XBOX and how the naming scheme works and since they are an adult buying the console for themselves they don't need to explain it to outsiders.
There are always first timers. How you treat your newbies says a lot about your respect for your customer.
If your marketing makes it hard to figure out what is what, well a Playstation $int[max] it is...
sure i guess if you only want money from adults born in the 80s maybe it seems like an okay idea. abandon the market of humans born after the year 2000, should be fine.
That still proves my point.
Re:Steam Machine
by terribleperson on Thursday November 13, 2025 @11:34PM
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the Series is one of the worst naming decisions in history. To this day I find myself mixing up the One X, One S, Series X, and Series S.
Even before they muddied things with reusing the S and X names for completely different things, "Xbox One" was bad enough
I worked at a pawn shop when that console generation kicked off. One day a guy called in and asked if he could bring in his Xbox One. "Of course," I told him, until I had to turn him away because it was an original Xbox.
“Oh, there’s a PlayStation 5 now? Man I gotta upgrade from my PS4!”
Microsoft evidently did not learn from the Wii U.