During this year's Game Awards, Microsoft stole most of the spotlight by revealing the name of their next-generation gaming console. Or so we thought. Originally revealed as the Xbox Series X, the latest system in the line of Microsoft's consoles, the name garnered confusion and ridicule. Now, Microsoft has decided to clarify what exactly the new moniker means, amidst the outcry. The fourth-generation Xbox console, final form of the Project Scarlett, and successor to the Xbox One will actually just be called Xbox. The Series X part of the name is just a branding subtitle, to "allow room for additional consoles in the future", according to the company. So, theoretically, rather than the current naming scheme, which sees Microsoft selling the Xbox One, Xbox One S, and Xbox One X, the "Series X" name will help consumers choose between different models of the new Xbox, such as the highly-rumored discless streaming-only Xbox.

The name we're carrying forward to the next generation is simply Xbox," a Microsoft representative told Business Insider. "And at The Game Awards you saw that name come to life through the Xbox Series X.

"Similar to what fans have seen with previous generations, the name 'Xbox Series X' allows room for additional consoles in the future," the Microsoft rep told us.

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Source (Exclusive interview via Business Insider)

 

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At this point, Sony will keep naming the new Playstations 5, 6, 7 etc to prove a point on how these names Nintendo and Microsoft give to their consoles are fucking stupid and asinine. It just confuses the average consumer.

Is the average consumer really that stupid? Most other devices don't have names with absolutely clear continuity or names people care to remember (even me -- I must have a few thousand hours in front of the screens I presently have and I might be able to tell you the make on a good day, no chance of a model number despite it literally being next to the window controls and other things I click often.

Also can't wait for the PS Vita only failed because the name set to arrive like they did for the Wii U.

 

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Is the average consumer really that stupid? Most other devices don't have names with absolutely clear continuity or names people care to remember (even me -- I must have a few thousand hours in front of the screens I presently have and I might be able to tell you the make on a good day, no chance of a model number despite it literally being next to the window controls and other things I click often.

Also can't wait for the PS Vita only failed because the name set to arrive like they did for the Wii U.

You just don't get it doesn't matter if a machine fails or not when we look back on history people will still be saying look at shit name xbox one and this series naming looks like it will follow as you can see from the comments majority think it's a load of bolox - why has xbox one x hav another x in it it already has an X in the xbox it just sounds silly may as well just call it xxxxxxxx box you see what I'm getting at it has no meaning or identity - when most people heard the name xbox one ther was no wow it was just really but it isn't the first xbox - you see straight away people were thinking tht so it's a shit name -the xbox should of really just gone in number order as the xbox name thers not much wrong with tht

 

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You just don't get it doesn't matter if a machine fails or not when we look back on history people will still be saying look at shit name xbox one and this series naming looks like it will follow as you can see from the comments majority think it's a load of bolox - why has xbox one x hav another x in it it already has an X in the xbox it just sounds silly may as well just call it xxxxxxxx box you see what I'm getting at it has no meaning or identity - when most people heard the name xbox one ther was no wow it was just really but it isn't the first xbox - you see straight away people were thinking tht so it's a shit name -the xbox should of really just gone in number order as the xbox name thers not much wrong with tht

Glad to know I am not the only one that gets more incoherent as the evening goes on.

Xbox itself is no more stupid than station for playing or entertainment system from Nintendo, and at the time xtreme was in, to say nothing of Microsoft having a little technology called directX.

I am not sure where you are heading otherwise. I don't disagree that the naming could be better, though another X is less of a problem for me.