Theory: MS Is A Major Part of Why the Japanese Market is Down.

[Grey Acumen]

Onyxmeth said:

bigjon said:
so what is the origin of the "360".... or is that just to sound "cool" too.

In generating a name for the system, the team threw out Xbox 2. "We've shifting the power of the gaming systems from technology to hardware to the gamer being the center of the industry, and Xbox 2 just sounds like it fits into that old scheme. We threw it out."

Actually, this is kind of a weird look at things. The only company to use the "1, 2, 3" numbering system has been Sony; PS2, PS3, (even the PSP models to a certain extent PSP-2000, PSP-3000)

All other companies have constantly stuck with using completely some new word for each system; Super Nintendo, Nintendo 64, Gamecube, Gameboy Color, Gameboy Advance, DS Lite, DSi, Sega Genesis, Sega Master System, Dreamcast, etc.

Now we have Xbox, and Xbox 360, so where did this idea that straight numbering was the conventional method?