The rejected names for Microsoft’s first console

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theprof00 on 05 July 2013

Deyon said:

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/

Mega doesn't sound too bad.

I also like Marz

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Thank God for Xbox!

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archer9234 on 05 July 2013

My god. Almost all of those are horrible. Wii U is better than most of those crap names.

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Xen on 05 July 2013

hinch said:

Xen said:
FACE is the best.

What are you playing?

I'm playing Halo on my FACE!

I'm dying here..

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Lulz on 05 July 2013

archer9234 said:
My god. Almost all of those are horrible. Wii U is better than most of those crap names.

I wouldn't go that far. Wii U is the worst name for a product ever. Microsoft could have called the Xbox the Microsoft TURD and it still wouldn't sound as bad as Wii U.

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Ssenkahdavic on 05 July 2013

Xen said:

hinch said:

Xen said:
FACE is the best.

What are you playing?

I'm playing Halo on my FACE!

I'm dying here..

Ooo and if it was FACE instead of Xbox.

" Fuuuuuuu! I just got a Red Ring on my FACE!"

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NintendoPie on 05 July 2013

Hopefully Microsoft didn't "seriously consider" any of those names as that would just put more points to the "derp, I don't know what I'm doing!" side of Microsoft.

(Although, I do like "XON (Experience Optimised Network)", that is if they used the real first letter of 'E'xperience. Because then it would be Microsoft Eon, which doesn't sound all too bad.)