They will definitely not be using Xbox 720. It's a really terrible name, and it makes little sense.

What the fuck?

You can't just decide things like that. That said "nextbox" at least makes some sense.

Videogame journalists in about EVERY SINGLE ARTICLE regard the next XBox have decided to call it the XBox 720.  It now floats around as THE name, and what they use.  It got adopted as a naming convention that I personally find very stupid, but it does serve a purpose.  So, I was thinking, in keeping with that, might as well use it as a placeholder name for every future version of a console Microsoft has coming, or more precisely, the name for the next generation console.  So, when we go next generation after the one coming out, that would be the XBox 720 also.  XBox 720 did appear in the movie Real Steel, which could end up leading to why 720 was picked.

And I am not deciding, just putting it out there.  I do wonder what the videogame news folks will call the next XBox after this one is not called the 720, if they won't go with 720 next time.

The next generation Nintendo system was always called the Wii HD yet it turned out to be the Wii U. By your logic we should just call the Wii U's successor the Wii HD. That makes no sense whatsoever and it won't happen just like how the XBOX 720 will die fairly quickly after the real name is announced.

Didn't you make this thread like a month ago? or am I just having some deja vu?

That doesn't make much sense.  People say 720 because it's the next logical progression from 360.  It's the exact same convention as using PSP2 or Wii2 or PS4.  If Microsoft uses Xbox 8 then people would start referring to the generation after that as the Xbox 9.  It's nothing much than a placeholder name using a logical mathematical progression.  It means nothing beyond the fact that people understand intuitively that it represents the next in order.  There is no need to worry about placeholder labels, they'll go away as soon as the official title is revealed.

On the subject, it would surprise me greatly if Microsoft went with Xbox 8.  How is that going to look in a couple of years when Windows 9 is released?  Or Windows X (god forbid)?

No. I think it should be Xbox3. Simple numbers work better.

No, I made another thread (and probably a few others) connected with the 720 name as bein stupid.  This thread is a resignation post that, since it is used so often, I was wondering if just adopting 720 as a generic filler name might be the most rational one.

How does going from XBox 360 to XBox 720 make sense when the original console was the original XBox?  There isn't a logical progression, just people thinking that adding 360 is what Microsoft had in mind.  Heck, that is what Real Steel the movie did.  But 360 was picked for numerous reasons with 360 standing for something, not just numbering.

The thing is that, with Atari, they kept adding 2600 do their names, and Sony had done that twice.

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