Yeah, and that's disappointing too.
OG Xbox isn't the issue. It'd be weird for the label to just say Xbox since Xbox is a brand, so there would be confusion as to whether it would work on Xbox One too. I'd just put both 'Xbox Series X' and 'Xbox Series S' on the box.
Ah. Cant remember exactly anymore. I know people called it that tho.
I don't think it's as big a deal as you're making it out to be nor do I think MS is going to abandon the S and X naming scheme next gen.
Or maybe it's just so smart that it's over our heads. Can't rule it out.
It's pretty simple. If you put "Xbox" in google you're going to pull up an endless list of Xbox-brand related stories, some related to the new console just due to it being a hot topic right now but otherwise completely haphazard. If you search "Xbox Series" or "Xbox Series X" you get stories targeted to the console. SEO 101, articles want to have higher rating in those more targeted search results. It behooves news sites to use specific terms like "Xbox Series" instead of "Xbox" to refer to the new console because it helps Google provide those articles to people actually searching for the Xbox Series console and game news.
If you think no one has ever expressed a distaste of using "SS" as a name for something not the Schutzstaffel, I don't know what to tell you. There is a reason the Secret Service takes their use of "USSS" as an acronym very seriously.
That's fine if you don't think it's a big deal, I never said you did. I said it would bother me.
Well you assume people are going to abbreviate it like that when people usually don't. I doubt anyone is going to call them the "SX" and "SS". I think people are going to just call it the "Series S and Series X" or just the "S and X". But the S moniker is a common naming scheme in tech and Microsoft uses it all the time.
I do think people will, and I especially think racist gamers will be happy to use that term.
I had no idea this was a thing, wow.if a game is Xbox One compatible they will put on it... like they already do with Xbox 360? unless people cant read, thats not happening
You figure a lot of people are going to walk into Dave's Retro Games, which also sells current releases I guess, and think "Oh damn, Halo: Infinite! I can tell from the $65 price tag and modern graphics on the back, that this is intended for use on my 17 year old console I still routinely use!"?
Yep.
Yeah, idk judging by the casual reactions here it might not be a problem in the US, I guess like KKK wasn't for a long time in Europe (I had a car with KKK and three figures on the plates), but it's not ideal at all world wide at this point when the extreme right is on the rise. Xbox SS would be an awful abbreviation.
This is actually a good idea. Should be a little chart on the back of the box.
Ideally an Xcloud stream would start up.
I'm pretty sure "Series X" is the final name of this console... not much that would lead us to believe otherwise. The marketing materials all say "The New Xbox Series X"
