RUMOR: COD Marketing Coming Back To Xbox This Year With Black Ops IIII

[jason1637]

ResidentToxy said:

Barozi said:
You mean IV?

This. If you are going to use Roman numerals, make sure you know what you are doing. Otherwise, just say: Black Ops 4. 

Actually IIII is the original way it was used and IV was later adopted to prevent confusion. 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_numerals

"The original pattern for Roman numerals used the symbols I, V. and X (1, 5, and 10) as simple tally marks. Each marker for 1 (I) added a unit value up to 5 (V), and was then added to (V) to make the numbers from 6 to 9:

I, II, III, IIII, V, VI, VII, VIII, VIIII, X.

The numerals for 4 (IIII) and 9 (VIIII) proved problematic (among other things, they are easily confused with III and VIII), and are generally replaced with IV (one less than 5) and IX (one less than 10). This feature of Roman numerals is called subtractive notation."