The rejected names for Microsoft’s first console

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Deyon on 05 July 2013

Microsoft’s ‘naming guys’ wanted to call the company’s first games console 11-X or Eleven-X, but were overruled by Seamus Blackley and his launch team.

The complete list of the ‘naming guys’ various suggestions:

- MAX (Microsoft Action Experience)
- AIO (All In One)
- MIND (Microsoft Interactive Network Device)
- FACE (Full Action Center)
- MITH (Microsoft Interactive Theatre)
- XON (Experience Optimised Network)
- MVPC (Microsoft Virtual Play Center)
- TAC (Total Action Center – discs/games could be called TACs)
- MARC (Microsoft Action Reality Center)
- LEX (Live Entertainment Experience)
- M-PAC (Microsoft Play and Action Center)
- RPM (Real Performance Machine)
- MOX (Microsoft Optimal Experience)
- E2 (Extreme Experience)
- MTG (Microsoft Total Gaming)
- VIP (Virtual Interactive Player)
- PTP or P2P (Powered To Play)
- VIC (Virtual Interactive Center – disks/games could be called VICs)
- MARZ (Microsoft Active Reality Zone)
- TSO (Three, Six, Zero)
- EHQ (Entertainment Headquarters)
- O2 (Optimal Ozone or Optical Odyssey)
- MIC (Microsoft Interactive Center)
- R&R (Reality and Revolution)
- MEA (Microsoft Entertainment Activator)
- AMP (Active Microsoft Player)
- VPS (Virtual Play System)
- MAP (Microsoft Action Play)
- MEGA (Microsoft Entertainment & Gaming Attendant or Microsoft Entertainment & Gaming Assembly)
- CPG (CyberPlayGround)
- VERV (Virtual Entertainment & Reality Venture)
- OM (Odyssey of the Mind)
- P2 (PowerPlay)
- IS1 (Interactive System In One)
- MET (Microsoft Entertainment Technology or Microsoft Entertainment Theatre)

http://www.edge-online.com/features/11-x-cyberplayground-ehq-the-rejected-names-for-microsofts-first-console/

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Anfebious on 05 July 2013

Wow all of them suck xD. I'm glad they stuck with the Xbox name

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I'd like to live in a world where people can play Calladoody on the Microsoft Marc.

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Kantor on 05 July 2013

"O2 (Optimal Ozone or Optical Odyssey)"

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ghettoglamour on 05 July 2013

If all these acronyms mean something, what does Xbox mean then?

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Chark on 05 July 2013

So this has been on ongoing problem? Naming things.

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Chark on 05 July 2013

TSO? Three, six, zero? Uh oh.

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Chark on 05 July 2013

AIO? All in one? They aren't even trying anymore.

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Lafiel on 05 July 2013

considering that both the 360 (three six zero) and the xbox one (all in one) are on this list which of these is the name for the successor of the one?