Poll: Which Videogame Console Has The Worst Name?
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I picked Wii U, for all the obvious/aforementioned reasons, but ultimately the answer is all of them. Every single games system has had a stupid or goofy name. Names for electronics goods (or cars, or shavers, or anything... ) tend to be awful and/or pointless, so they're just doing what's natural, so to speak.
And the third's Wikipedia, where this is the first sentence: "The Xbox One is a home video game console developed by Microsoft. Announced in May 2013, it is the successor to the Xbox 360 and the third console in the Xbox family...".
Two seconds and a click = "research" in thealways online space-year 2017? C'mon... Personally I think sequalising a games console is heartily derpsome (doesn't that make the PS4 Pro the PS4.5?), but as I said at the start, all console names are terrible, just in different ways.
"Research"? It takes less than 2seconds to Google 'Xbox One'... The first entry is the official site - with a big picture, a price, and an overview of its console-y console features. The second result's the Xbox One store of a major highstreet site.DrownedAmmet said:
And the third's Wikipedia, where this is the first sentence: "The Xbox One is a home video game console developed by Microsoft. Announced in May 2013, it is the successor to the Xbox 360 and the third console in the Xbox family...".
Two seconds and a click = "research" in the
I picked Wii U for obvious reasons, but I had an old Turbografx 16 at one point and that name is patently ridiculous.
Because it's PlayStation. Plaaaaaaaaaystaaaaatiooooon. I remember finding the name PlayStation very odd when first hearing it at the age 6 in late 1995. I don't know what it was, but when we got one during Christmas of 97, the name stuck with me, and my older brother loved the name instantaneously. I think the reason why it worked was due to a lot of games being stationed to the console. Ha. Ha. Ha. And then PS2 happened, so we all know the rest from there.Xprimentyl said:
Ironically the XBOX ONE came full circle in the worst possible way. Similar to its original predecessor, the console lacks variety, with a whole bunch of shooters galore, and multi-platform games you can get on a better console or PC. It's almost like XBOX all over again, but even less tolerable. With cancellation of Scalebound, there is now no reason for me to get it, because Microsoft was too chicken shit to release a game that wasn't supposed to be multiplayer focused.meowchef said:
I feel no sympathy for Microsoft, that's their own damn fault.sagitel said:
Wii U and Xbox One are tied. Wii and Xbox 360 are also tied for second worst.
Here's my reasons.
Wii U - A contradictory name, if Wii was supposed to mean "We" then "We You" is contradictory. They just wanted to reuse the Wii name and this is the best they could come up with.
Xbox One - There was already an Xbox 1, we just call it the original Xbox since it would be confusing to call it the Xbox 1.
Wii - We are not in Japan, using Japanese titles for games is a pet peeve of mine and it extends to console names too, localize your damn title. While we are on the subject, I have noticed that sometimes Japanese developers don't localize the voice acting and we are stuck with only Japanese voice acting (Tales of Hearts R comes to mind). Either fully localize your damn game, cut out the part you don't want to localize or don't release it here, lazy fucks.
Xbox 360 - It seems perfectly natural now to say Xbox 360 instead of Xbox 2 but what does the 360 really mean in terms Microsofts usage here? Seems nonsensical to me.
Some of the best console names are: Playstation, it perfectly says what it is. Dreamcast, it just stirs the imagination. I am also fond of Gamecube as it describes the look and purpose of the machine.
Here's my reasons.
Wii U - A contradictory name, if Wii was supposed to mean "We" then "We You" is contradictory. They just wanted to reuse the Wii name and this is the best they could come up with.
Xbox One - There was already an Xbox 1, we just call it the original Xbox since it would be confusing to call it the Xbox 1.
Wii - We are not in Japan, using Japanese titles for games is a pet peeve of mine and it extends to console names too, localize your damn title. While we are on the subject, I have noticed that sometimes Japanese developers don't localize the voice acting and we are stuck with only Japanese voice acting (Tales of Hearts R comes to mind). Either fully localize your damn game, cut out the part you don't want to localize or don't release it here, lazy fucks.
Xbox 360 - It seems perfectly natural now to say Xbox 360 instead of Xbox 2 but what does the 360 really mean in terms Microsofts usage here? Seems nonsensical to me.
Some of the best console names are: Playstation, it perfectly says what it is. Dreamcast, it just stirs the imagination. I am also fond of Gamecube as it describes the look and purpose of the machine.
Yes, it made some sense right up until they named their third console Xbox One, proving they were just confused both then and now. So now they have Xbox 1 competing against the PlayStation 4.MetalDooley said:
