Comment by VyseofArcadia 3 months ago
> Microsoft of course couldn't compete with an "Xbox 2" vs a "PS3"
Part of me wants to think that consumers can't possibly that uninformed, but I know in my heart I am wrong.
They should have done what Nintendo (usually) does and left the numbers out of it. Call the next iteration of the Xbox the <something else>box.
A&W tried to make a 1/3 pound burger to compete with the McDonald’s Quarter Pounder but it failed because people thought it was smaller, because 3 is smaller than 4.
https://www.snopes.com/news/2022/06/17/third-pound-burger-fr...
Even Linux users in 1999 (when you had to be pretty well informed to know that Linux even existed) were truly that uninformed.
I don't think you are wrong. There's absolutely no way people are that stupid.
They can't call it the <something else> Box because they don't want people to think of it as a Microsoft Device.
Nintendo can go from Nintendo 3DS to Nintendo Switch because the brand is Nintendo.
Microsoft clearly considers the brand "Microsoft" to be poison ivy to gamers, and always brands their gaming hardware as "Xbox" as if that were the company name. Going to Ybox would kill their brand and put them back at square one.