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So my wife bought me Xbox One S instead of Series S :(
- Thread starter Fezan
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It's not disastrous but the insane defense you and others sure love to do regarding the naming is insane. It's confusing and threads like this continue to show that.
Awesome, glad your wife is great and you both were able to get it resolved really quickly.
Yup. When not buying the wrong console requires the store not carry the older versions or people ask the associate for help clarifying which is which instead of the naming just being distinct and obvious, then it's a bad name.
It's saying something when even gamers sometimes accidentally refer to the old models when speaking of the new ones.
All but one of those have been discontinued and won't be on shelves or online stores anywhere.
...I don't think this detail is something the average Christmas shopper has any interest in.
The shortages won't help. Some clueless gifterd are probably like oooh score, I found a hard to find Xbox.
There is not an argument that the name is a catastrophic mess of confusion, because it isn't.
These are isolated cases and while they will happen, they will be a small number overall.
That said, imo there's still no argument for it being an incredibly stupid naming scheme and purposely confusing for no reason at all. Just name it something else ffs, it's not difficult.
These are isolated cases and while they will happen, they will be a small number overall.
That said, imo there's still no argument for it being an incredibly stupid naming scheme and purposely confusing for no reason at all. Just name it something else ffs, it's not difficult.
'Insane'
over diverging opinions on the names of plastic boxes. Really?
Fully agreed with this. It can lead to confusion for those who haven't kept up with ads, but it's not going to be widespread, and it'll completely fade away when last gen is discontinued.
an avoidable mess, but not catastrophic or Wii-U Esque by any stretch of the imagination.
I bought the latest iPad this year and it was simple. I bought the iPad.
When they announced the iPad (8th Gen), it replaced the iPad (7th Gen) on the website. You had no choice but to get the new one. Apple doesn't sell the new model alongside the previous model for iPads and Macs. They do for iPhone and Apple Watch, but those get different names so you can tell them apart.
Imagine this conversation:
"hi, I'd like to buy an Xbox for my husband."
"Sure, the new ones are the Series S and the Series X. Do you know which one you want?"
"No, I'm not sure. He does have an Xbox already though."
"Great, is his current Xbox an Xbox One, an Xbox One S, or an Xbox one X?"
"I'm not sure?"
"If he has the Xbox One X he may want to go with the Xbox Series X, and not the Xbox Series S since that one can play Xbox One versions of games but not Xbox One X versions of games if he already has that. If your television is 4K or you are planning a 4K tv purchase, you may also want to consider the Series X over the Series S"
"I'm going to need to come back later."
I used to have identical conversations like this one every year about WAY less confusing platforms than what the Xbox is right now. Your typical holiday shopper HATES industry jargon, doesn't have all of this info and isn't in the mood to discuss it.
Yeah, the two most common arguments I saw were "people don't get confused when upgrading their phones" and "the One S model will be off the shelves when the Series S and X is out so there'll be no confusion". The latter being lousy when it is still out in some countries.
OP, your wife sounds like a great person. I'm glad it worked out.
That's a nice outcome. Why does your title have a sad face in it?
Not trying to war here, but people said it wouldn't be an issue this early into the gen, but here it is already causing problems. The marketing was good (maybe too good?) and on paper, sure it made sense, but ultimately you're only going to continue to run into these kinds of performance problems as you try to execute more comprehensive tasks. Let this be a lesson for those considering the more accessible S model--also hold out for the Series X-significant other. The S will just let you down.
It is confusing! It's the kind of naming convention where I have to stop and think about it to remember which is which. I'm sure if I owned any of them it'd be easy, but I don't.
It gets worse, remember the Xbox 360 S and the Xbox 360 E?
I was hopeful that Microsoft would discount the One S to $199 or less, honestly. Could have used a 4K Blu-Ray Player that does Game Pass.
Xbox 360
Xbox 360 Core
Xbox 360 Elite
Xbox 360 Arcade
Xbox 360 S
Xbox 360 E
Ppl are saying how confusing the names are and I can somewhat agree. It's not dead simple but do ppl really think buying the wrong console would actually stop?
...because it definitely is despite your opinion on the matter?
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She ordered it online. She is tech savvy just not into videogames.
Sadness as it ruined her surprise and I have to wait two weeks almost to get a new console.
I honestly feel like it's somehow worse than the 3ds/2ds naming they've had. At least those are all one generation of consoles and have mostly the same features and power
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Noon.com. They have a good refund policy so it won't be an issue
Ah. Glad it all worked out, though. And yeah, it's not about tech savvy-ness.
You should. Hope you are able to get a series s with a reasonable delivery date
That's a way to overestimating a store staff.
Mostly they will just ask you expensive one and cheaper one, with one is more powerful other one is less powerful, they are not spend loads of time to explain lots of things nor care about which TV consumer have.
MS is the one actually smarter. They made OP's wife purchase a discontinued product that MS wants to clear off shelf. Then a possibility of them getting a Series S in the future too!
Unless the parent is like didn't he say he wanted Playstation? Hey look a Playstation on the shelf even if it has 4 in the name lol. I get the sentiment but I guarantee if they made it Xbox 4 ppl will be saying how MS was dumb to be less than 5. MS can not win
Never heard of it but looking at the listing there I can understand the confusion. The retailer though should be making it clear that it's been discontinued like amazon has.
Xbox One S 1TB Console - Xbox One S Edition (Discontinued): Xbox One: Video Games - Amazon.ca
Xbox One S 1TB Console - Xbox One S Edition (Discontinued): Xbox One: Video Games - Amazon.ca
www.amazon.ca
Speaking of my personal experience, guy. I was "store staff" for years both commissioned and later hourly, and there are reasons why you don't just say "go with the cheaper one" or "not care about what tv a consumer has" when selling equipment.
All that does is cause upset calls to management and a lot of returns when the product wasn't what they expected. Just because someone is retail staff doesn't mean they don't have pride in doing their job.
edit: In fact, the last store I was at before leaving retail was DIRECTLY next to a Walmart that sold much of the same stuff we did, but cheaper. When asked by customers who were only concerned about getting the cheapest possible thing I'd tell them to head right over there to buy a product if they were so inclined- but 9 times out of 10 that customer would be right back in 30 minutes because Walmart staff did not care to know the first thing about the product on their shelves and did not give a shit about answering questions.
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One S is still in production and costs about the same (1TB model) as the Series S.
It's dumb.
Our parents bought us Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 for PS1 instead of PS2 one christmas and I think there was some mix-up when I think I asked for Crusader: No Remorse as a christmas present as well, and the game I got that year was definitely NOT that. I don't remember what it was but I was kind of annoyed how they could make such a mistake. 😓
With the series x it's not confusing because the one x has sold through. The S there is definitely confusion if you don't provide a picture or carefully check what you're buying.
I think the issue will subside next year as I don't see the Xbox one being sold much beyond this holiday. There won't be much reason to keep it in production once the series can keep up with demand.
I think the issue will subside next year as I don't see the Xbox one being sold much beyond this holiday. There won't be much reason to keep it in production once the series can keep up with demand.