| kinisking said: And can you stop saying xbone? xb1 isnt hard at all to type. |
If you require 100% conformity to a corporation's chosen marketing slogan, you are setting yourself up for failure.
MS might call their product "The Uber Cloud Machine that detroys pansy crap from Japan - Box"
but that doesn't obligate anybody to use that term: People will use a corporate-marketing-created term to the exact extent
that they find the word cool, expressive, and reflecting of their own perspective on things. If not, they won't.
Blame MS marketing for any failure of the broader gamer population to not jump on their excercise in vocabulary manipulation.
Back in the day, the guy who made your shovel just called it a shovel, and didn't try to force you to call it some bullcrap name.
If MS named it "Xbox 720" that would make sense and been broadly used/accepted,
Although MS' naming conventions (XBone/360) are and have been ridiculous acrobatics to not "be 1 number lower than PS",
i.e. evade the fact that PS has a longer heritage, so if using silly names is to be faulted, than MS is the original guilty party.
I don't see anybody mocking PS4 "OOH, PSFOOOUR, AS IF it follows three previous Playstations.... OOOHHH...".
PS4 is a utiitarian logical term, while MS' continual desperate name-shifting just oozes pretense and disconnect.
"Xbone" is in fact the most accurate shortening of MS' chosen name, which spells out 'o-n-e' rather than using the numeral.
Why do you take Xbone as derogatory anyways? Because it sounds a bit silly? So what, what's wrong with silly?
There's no reason you can't embrace the term Xbone as a term of endearment.
