XboxEra Community Hangout |OT11| It Goes To 11!

[BadNews]

Xbox Genesis

[GamepadX]

@BadNews

Xbox Genesis

“if” Xbox buys Sega… (Dreamcast gets canceled out for being part of the GameCube, PS2, Xbox generation)

Xbox Master System (1)

Xbox Genesis (2)

Xbox Saturn (3)

Xbox (4)

Xbox 360 (5)

Xbox One (6)

Xbox Series (7)

…

XBOX 8

[GamepadX]

@GamepadX

“if” Xbox buys Sega… (Dreamcast gets canceled out for being part of the GameCube, PS2, Xbox generation)

Xbox Master System (1)

Xbox Genesis (2)

Xbox Saturn (3)

Xbox (4)

Xbox 360 (5)

Xbox One (6)

Xbox Series (7)

…

XBOX 8

Honestly if I’m Phil and I just bought Sega then I’d also buy Atari and Pong just for the hell of it and call my next console …

Xbox X (10)

[Astrakan]

@GamepadX

Honestly if I’m Phil and I just bought Sega then I’d also buy Atari and Pong just for the hell of it and call my next console …

Xbox X (10)

You don’t have to go to those lengths to do that.

[KirthGersen]

Xbox Series EX and Xbox Series US (Xbox Sex and Sus)

[No-1HoloLens-Fan]

@Staffy

Sheeeeesh!

https://x.com/lmk_nathan42915/status/1737508523569742017?s=20

Fun fact. It happened years ago.

[MJ_INC]

@dgb

Bad move if Phil told/let her to leave. Individuals who were against this acquisition are celebrating this.

LOL. I’ve loved the whole ABK acquisition as it’s just gone to show how little overlap there is between gaming circles and business/corporate circles. In nearly every case of an acquisition the board of the company is dissolved and those people leave. They’re all very high paying positions(thanks to bonuses) that unless the parent company wants to retain them for a high position within their own company are let go. In 2021 thanks to his bonus Bobby Kotich alone earned $150m which is more than Satya Nadella earned that year.

[MJ_INC]

@peter42O

Personally, I hope they call it XBOX 6. And that’s it. I get that they would be skipping numbers and whatnot but Microsoft has done the same thing with Windows and no one cared so why not do the same with the next Xbox?

I agree. And it happens in so many consumer product companies like Samsung and LG that no one cares . It would simplify the name and allign it into the future without confusing people.

[Popppi (Phil Spencer's shelf)]

@peter42O

… Yeah but 360/360 S/360 E is the same generation, One/One S/One X is the same generation and Series X/S is the same generation. That’s three generations plus the original makes 4. So it should be 5 but I would skip 5 and go straight to 6 because PlayStation 6 would be there and the reason why Microsoft usually does the weird names is because if they went with numbers, they would be behind by 1 and if you look at something like 6 to 5, most people will see 5 as inferior because 6 would be the higher number. Weird but that’s how most people will see it which is why I say just go straight to XBOX 6 and call it a day.

Honestly, I don’t get where the perception comes from that numbering is the way to go. Sony is actually the outlier in the console naming scheme. I’m fine with quirky names like dreamcast, switch or 360.

[No-1HoloLens-Fan]

I bet Sony will give away an arm and a leg for a game with 40 hr avg per player

https://twitter.com/StarfieldGame/status/1737552339358163373?t=bYb5QpemhaOBPYExVvm86g&s=19

[BadNews]

@No-1HoloLens-Fan

I bet Sony will give away an arm and a leg for a game with 40 hr avg per player

https://twitter.com/StarfieldGame/status/1737552339358163373?t=bYb5QpemhaOBPYExVvm86g&s=19

It’s not even just that , but game would also generate dlc revenue . I know it’s a polarizing game, but many devs wish for their games to average 40+ hours of playtime .

[Sparda3g]

@No-1HoloLens-Fan

I bet Sony will give away an arm and a leg for a game with 40 hr avg per player

https://twitter.com/StarfieldGame/status/1737552339358163373?t=bYb5QpemhaOBPYExVvm86g&s=19

There goes “people only play a minute” narrative…

[KakkaKarrotKake]

@BadNews

Xbox Genesis

Power Your Dream(s)cast

[Astrakan]

@Popppi

Honestly, I don’t get where the perception comes from that numbering is the way to go. Sony is actually the outlier in the console naming scheme.

Good point. Nintendo never did it, nor Sega or any other manufacturer before Sony and the PlayStation 2.

I remember the discussion around the time of the 360 launch, people were saying it was to avoid having a lower number than PlayStation, but I don’t remember Microsoft ever saying that. To be fair, it doesn’t make sense for them to admit that, but I think them doing it just to avoid having it be 2 alongside Sony’s 3 is basically an urban legend.

[BadNews]

Honestly, I prefer unique name route that every other manufacturer went with. I think Playstation numbered consoles work because “PS” name itself has major brand recognition and has a ring to it. Meanwhile, it would sound kind of awkward with xbox numbered console. It seems weird to say XB2, XB3… or even saying Xbox 2, Xbox 3, Xbox …

[Astrakan]

@No-1HoloLens-Fan

So… how many hours have YOU spent building ships?

I hesitate to even venture a guess, but I’m certain it’s in the double digits. Twenty sounds too high, but 10+ for sure.

Several of my most-wanted improvements involve the shipbuilder. I want to be able to:

• save in-progress builds
• have an interior ship preview
• decorate the interior, outpost-style (sounds like something like this is coming)
• invert the controls in the shipbuilder
• not move everything into the cargo hold when having only painted the ship (bonus points if it can also be avoided when exchanging parts that don’t impact the interior, like engine or grav drive)

[GamepadX]

@Astrakan

You don’t have to go to those lengths to do that.

Obviously I’m showing my age since kids (like my 8 year old) won’t care that there will be 10 console generations. I’m really only kidding about buying pong and Atari. But I’m at least half serious when I say that a Sega acquisition should lead to them calling it Xbox 8. It’s been years of hearing annoying arguments about how Xbox should adopt the PlayStation naming scheme. If all of a sudden Xbox finds themselves 8 generations deep and PlayStation is on 6 generations deep. Well that would be an interesting turn of events. How would PlayStation handle the names if the shoe is on the other foot.

[SheepDip]

@FacelessSamurai

Plus when you see it, you can still do a 720 and walk away!

[SpiderLink]

@Sparda3g

There goes “people only play a minute” narrative…

Obviously the xbots have had the game running since launch to skew the average.

@biglo25

lets play a game come up with the new name for the next xbox because you know it’s going to be weird or dumb and get confusing like with the xbox one x to series X

Xbox (2026)

[Shadowgasm]

I too am curious what naming convention they’ll go with for the next Xbox. My vote would be…Xbox: The New One and Xbox: The New One Lite.