Xbox Series X and an original Xbox with the xbox logo.
Summary Microsoft’s strange naming conventions for its recent Xbox consoles have become a bit of a joke among players, but some might not know that it has been going on for a long time. Xbox Series X/S is only the latest in a long string of somewhat baffling choices made by Microsoft in naming its Xbox products. After all, this is the company that called its third console generation the Xbox One.
Related Xbox Is Giving Away Butt-Shaped Controllers & Series X For Deadpool & Wolverine Release To celebrate the release of the upcoming Deadpool & Wolverine movie, Xbox has revealed a custom console with two"cheeky" controllers. Now, this actually wasn’t a bad naming convention when it first started. “S” clearly stands for small, so it made sense to call the smaller controller the S. It was when Xbox started using the same naming conventions for its consoles that things began to get out of hand. This is less to do with the “S” label, and more to do with the overall confusing way that Microsoft names its systems.
Contrasted with PlayStation, which wisely just uses numbers to track its generations, Xbox’s consoles are a nightmare for a layperson to keep track of. Similar to Nintendo’s failure to distinguish the Wii U from the Wii, Xbox may find it harder to market its systems as their naming conventions become all the more esoteric. What started as a reasonable naming convention for a smaller controller has spiraled out of control into one of gaming’s most confusing brands.
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