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What will the next Xbox be called?

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With the recent official acknowledgement of the next-gen PlayStation and its unsurprising, yet conventional name of PlayStation 5, we are left wondering what direction Microsoft will choose when it comes to naming their successor to the Xbox One.

The Xbox brand has had a less than straight forward history when it comes to naming their hardware after the release of the original Xbox in 2001.

With the upcoming release of the PlayStation 3 in 2005/06, Microsoft allegedly wanted to avoid calling their next console the Xbox 2 to avoid consumers splitting hairs between numbers and causing consumer confusion with possible assumptions that 2 is greater than 3, so instead they opted for the Xbox 360 name when it released ahead of the PS3 in '05. Though this decision only furthered complications when it came time for the next generation Xbox...

Though many believed the next generation Xbox would be called the Xbox 720 after a supposed teaser was seen in the trailer for the 2011 film 'Reel Steel'. Instead, Microsoft chose to go back to the drawing board and turned heads when they revealed the Xbox One name during the Xbox Reveal 2013 event. The Xbox One released in 2013 up against the PlayStation 4.

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Further revisions of the Xbox One would be released under the monikers Xbox One S and Xbox One X. With the S being a revised, cost efficient revision of the original Xbox One and the X being a competitor to the rival PS4 Pro.

It's all a stark contrast to Sony's continued method of naming each home console PlayStation revision numerically and this makes us wonder what Microsoft will decide when it comes to naming the next Xbox which is rumoured to release in 2020 against the PlayStation 5.

Will they follow the likes of the Windows and Android teams and jump to 10 or perhaps X? What are your thoughts?

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I think it should just reboot with "Xbox". The names are all messed up. Sony has some boring names for their system but at least you know which system is newer.
Ther not boring it's a brand tht continues - like if sega dreamcast continued it would prob be called dreamcast 2 thts not boring they hav already named the machine playstation dreamcast which are excellent names for a machine - so let's all look forward to also the playstation 6 which wil be around 2027:D
 

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Reminds me of the chronology of the Street Fighter and Devil May Cry series.

With Street Fighter, it starts at the very first one, then it goes to the Alpha series (in spite of the Japanese name for the series being Street Fighter Zero), then it's Street Fighter 2, then Street Fighter 4, Street Fighter 5, and then the last one, chronologically speaking by the official canon storyline, Street Fighter 3. Yeah.

For Devil May Cry, ignoring Donte May Cry, the first one chronologically is 3, followed by the original, and, last I heard, it continued to 4, then it went on to Dante shooting helicopters with just Ebony and Ivory, and currently ends at DMC5. But I remember reading something that the offical canon may have switched 4 and 2 around or something. Maybe I'll figure it out once I feel like marathoning all 5 games and, if I'm out of my parents' house by then, drinking my way through Donte May Cry Because Who The Fuck asked for this Reboot?
If you want to go real confusing, try taking a look at the Wonder Boy series and how that managed its numbering and localizations across versions. It's so crazy even fans get confused. Same game having different names, different characters, different numbering and even being part of a different subseries - it's crazy, and it has it all. Fantastic games as well.
 
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Because they floated the idea of making the xbox one a discless system, or digital only rather (disc to function as vouchers for digital games). Huge blow-back, so we got our physical games systems for this generation. Sony also tried it, but were a bit more vague about it. so when sony changed their minds after xbox got blow-back, not many people noticed. In the here and now, microsoft has the discless xbox s, which obviously requires internet to play/download games.

They want a digital-only future. When they do, they'll control all game distribution on their platform. the used games market for their console won't exist, and they'll have control over distribution. They'll make more money, more consistently. It's definitely something to be wary of and call them out for it whenever they try. We'll see how they handle this gen, but ps5 seems to still support physical games...just have to make sure they don't push a "disc is a digital voucher" nonsense.

X specs for 400? agree, that's not doable really. Especially when you would have to make it beefier to accommodate OS overhead (and games won't be coded for one piece of hardware, so less efficient).
Everything you wrote here you made up in your mind.

Both the PS5 and Xbox 2 will use discs and be normal consoles.
 

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In the here and now, microsoft has the discless xbox s, which obviously requires internet to play/download games.

This is just so they can sell a cheaper console to those people who don't want a drive, some people really don't care about discs.

I don't think either Sony or Microsoft think discs are disappearing soon. They even u-turned on the PS4 Pro 4k bluray discs. I guess the real reason is they didn't want to invest in the R&D and increase the production cost, when the extra capacity couldn't be used for games.
 

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Xbox Windows. Running Windows 10 OS on a home console for the first time ever. A partnership with Steam (or Epic?) on the console would be very interesting too.
 
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