I was thinking earlier about what Nintendo might call the 'NX' product when it gets a public name, and how some names for consoles/add-ons have been kind of bleh like 32X (honestly just a plain bad idea) or Xbox One / WiiU.
Not going to do a poll as it would get possibly too convoluted.
Nintendo has been kind of boring but mostly good. It seems they got more creative as the gens wore on, though I think naming the Wii replacement Wii-U was a mistake.
NES, SNES, N64, Gamecube (cool), Wii (okay), WiiU (lol)
Sega is probably my favorite because they are mostly unique and evocative.
SG-1000 (bleh), Master System (okay), Genesis (very cool), Saturn (nice), Dreamcast (epic)
Sony is highly competent and has stuck to highly sensible if not very exciting naming with PS1/2/3/4
Microsoft's naming scheme is incomprehensible : Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One. I think it would have been awesome if they gave unique names to each gen than a kind of muddled system involving numbers but no reasonable sense of order. Imagine :
Xbox
Xbox Titan
Xbox Omega
etc.
NEC was interesting but short lived. Everything was an Engine overseas, and 'Grafx' in the US, until they decided to take that back to JPN for 'SuperGrafx', which I think only got 4 or 5 titles released. Too bad about NEC, it would have been truly interesting to see what they would have done in the 4th gen era and beyond.
Anyway, what are some of your favorites?
Mine in no order : Gamecube, Genesis, Dreamcast, Xbox, Playstation (before they started just naming them 2, 3, 4, which makes sense but is hella boring), and hell even Jaguar sounds pretty sweet.
