A few years ago someone said something about one of the newer Xboxs. Either Xbox One X or Xbox series X. I forget which. And I asked “Is that the newest Xbox?”
And this guy goes off on me. Claims I’m gaslighting him, and that everyone knows which generation each Xbox is/was.
And I honestly didn’t. I was genuinely asking.
So now I feel vindicated in my prior ignorance, because with Playstation, it’s real simple. 4 is 2 more than 2. So even if you didn’t know playstation, you know numbers. So even my nongaming mom could tell you PS4 came after PS3.
But with Xbox, it was just random jibberish. Even Nintendo console names aren’t easily placed in order by non-gamers, but at least they have personality.
Like I don’t think my mom would know that the N64 came before the Wii. She would have no way to know the order. But she knows what the Wii is. She gave my niece a wii.
But Xbox names just sound like the codes stores internally use to refer to products. Sometimes you see it on the barcode.
So like Hunts BBQ sauce 16oz bottle, might be “HntzBBQ16”. Thats what Xbox names feel like.
Xbox series XS.
I wish I had a good joke for that, but I’m really high and thinking about what would happen if Rowdy Roddy Piper had gotten into politics instead of Jesse Ventura.
Which is completely off topic, but can you imagine???
I bought an Xbox one X recently to play the newer Forza Horizon series and when i was looking for one, the amount of posts i saw that listed an Xbox one X as a Xbox series X, or someone listing an Xbox series X as an Xbox one was astounding. It was at least 40% of the listings on local sites. Most people didn’t care to look at the label on the back to see what they were selling, they just knew it was an xbox. Microsoft really screwed everyone up with their stupid names.
I feel even more vindicated now.
A few years ago someone said something about one of the newer Xboxs. Either Xbox One X or Xbox series X. I forget which. And I asked “Is that the newest Xbox?”
And this guy goes off on me. Claims I’m gaslighting him, and that everyone knows which generation each Xbox is/was.
And I honestly didn’t. I was genuinely asking.
So now I feel vindicated in my prior ignorance, because with Playstation, it’s real simple. 4 is 2 more than 2. So even if you didn’t know playstation, you know numbers. So even my nongaming mom could tell you PS4 came after PS3.
But with Xbox, it was just random jibberish. Even Nintendo console names aren’t easily placed in order by non-gamers, but at least they have personality.
Like I don’t think my mom would know that the N64 came before the Wii. She would have no way to know the order. But she knows what the Wii is. She gave my niece a wii.
But Xbox names just sound like the codes stores internally use to refer to products. Sometimes you see it on the barcode.
So like Hunts BBQ sauce 16oz bottle, might be “HntzBBQ16”. Thats what Xbox names feel like.
Xbox series XS.
I wish I had a good joke for that, but I’m really high and thinking about what would happen if Rowdy Roddy Piper had gotten into politics instead of Jesse Ventura.
Which is completely off topic, but can you imagine???
I bought an Xbox one X recently to play the newer Forza Horizon series and when i was looking for one, the amount of posts i saw that listed an Xbox one X as a Xbox series X, or someone listing an Xbox series X as an Xbox one was astounding. It was at least 40% of the listings on local sites. Most people didn’t care to look at the label on the back to see what they were selling, they just knew it was an xbox. Microsoft really screwed everyone up with their stupid names.