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I was legitimately irritated when the called the gen after 360 the "One" instead of the "Delta." They had a good thing going, why would they F that up?
To this day, I am amazed at how badly they effed that name up.
It's effing crazy, I say.
Good thing? Xbox's whole naming scheme is just shuffling in place for a while with the ‘360’ and ‘One’ before devolving into incomprehensible ‘series whatever’. Microsoft are comically bad at naming.
P.S. They had actually decent naming going on with 'Forza Motorsport' 1-7, and then decided to reset back to no number in 2023 for no good reason. It's like they're outright trying to be ridiculous.
The Xbox naming always reminds me of the "New Nintendo 3ds" which was different from the "Nintendo 3ds". People probably got paid a lot of money to come up with the stupidest names.
‘New 3DS’ wasn't really that egregious, since it was a revision of 3DS. What was worse is that DS, 3DS, and 2DS were released in that order.
why delta ? because of the triangle ?
This is the greek letter delta: Δ
yeah, capital delta is a triangle. It's also used in math and science to indicate rate of change.
Cheers ! I was a bit lost. I know delta as "difference from", or "offset" in 3D graphics
everybody called the xbox 360 "the 360" so they figured if they named the next one the xbox one everybody would call it "the one"
‘Eks bone’ is the kind of thing why designers spend time finding any and all obscene or unbecoming connotations in their projects before the customers have a chance to do that.