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Forums - Gaming - Worst Console (not handheld) Name of All Time (Poll added)

 

Pick the very worst!

Apple Pippin 4 6.06%
 
Atari XEGS 4 6.06%
 
Fairchild Channel F 6 9.09%
 
Ouya 14 21.21%
 
Playstation 1 1.52%
 
Playstation 2 4 6.06%
 
Wii 0 0%
 
WiiU 11 16.67%
 
XBoxOne 4 6.06%
 
XBoxOneX 18 27.27%
 
Total:66
aikohualda on 12 June 2017
JWeinCom said:
WolfpackN64 said:
Xbox One X.
One of the reasons Xbox sold bad in Japan is the name, X having the connotation of "No" or "Do not want". So the Xbox One X is the basically the Don'twantbox One Nope.

Dairanuto Smash Brothers X
Monster Hunter XX

Unless I'm missing something in translation, it seems products with X are fine.

pokemon x sold much much much much much less in japan vs pokemon y... source: my butt



 

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COKTOE on 12 June 2017
Yerm said:
OUYA

it was a bad console on its own, but the name itself was another level of bad. its weird to try and pronounce and as far as I know there was no backstory behind it, it just was.

Yeah. I'm changing my vote. OUYA.



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Soundwave on 12 June 2017

Ouya Vs. Wii U. Fight!



COKTOE on 12 June 2017
SegataSanshiro said:

Wii U

Xbox One

Xbox One X

Fairchild Channel F

Atari XEGS

Another great contender.



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Jumpin on 12 June 2017

Dreamcast, as much as I loved it during its short little life, was about the most pretentious sounding name for a console that I think has ever been.

Vita, could have been the only name that gives Dreamcast a run for the money on pretentiousness.

Xbox, was also on the pretentious side, what does that X mean? Xtreme Box? Please.

Xbox 360, not willing to put an Xbox 2 against a PlayStation 3, Microsoft decided to go with a MUCH bigger number with a 3 in it. Xtreme Box three hundred and sixty!

Xbox One, they out pretentioused themselves with this one. The community has since began referring to it colloquially as the XBone.

Wii U was a weird one too. The Wii was weird enough, but it became a household name in the months before the launch of the console. Wii U always sounded strange, like an old tugboat horn.

GameCube sounds like a child's toy, and it didn't help that it also looked like one.



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Yerm on 12 June 2017
Jumpin said:

Dreamcast, as much as I loved it during its short little life, was about the most pretentious sounding name for a console that I think has ever been.

Vita, could have been the only name that gives Dreamcast a run for the money on pretentiousness.

Xbox, was also on the pretentious side, what does that X mean? Xtreme Box? Please.

Xbox 360, not willing to put an Xbox 2 against a PlayStation 3, Microsoft decided to go with a MUCH bigger number with a 3 in it. Xtreme Box three hundred and sixty!

Xbox One, they out pretentioused themselves with this one. The community has since began referring to it colloquially as the XBone.

Wii U was a weird one too. The Wii was weird enough, but it became a household name in the months before the launch of the console. Wii U always sounded strange, like an old tugboat horn.

GameCube sounds like a child's toy, and it didn't help that it also looked like one.

the Xbox gets its name from its developmental stages. it was originally going to be called  the "DirectX Box" since it would be a gaming console running DirectX, but it was later shortened to just "Xbox"



super_etecoon on 12 June 2017

So many options...I'm going to limit this to consoles (including Switch if that has enough initial votes). 3DS, 2DS, Vita, etc would be another thread. There have just been so many terrible names to include them all. It's a good thing these marketing analysts make so much money!



super_etecoon on 12 June 2017

Double Post



Aeolus451 on 12 June 2017

Xbox. To japanese, X is the symbol for "wrong". Teachers will use it for grading or wrong answers. Companies will also use it to mark something that is defective.

Wii u is another bad name for a console. Alot of people thought it was just an upgrade or attachment for the wii rather than a separate console.



Mr_No on 12 June 2017

It's not a bad name by all means. It reeks of "extreme 90s", but I've seen worse. I would've preferred Xbox Ten or Xbox 10 since it's technically running on Windows 10.