Why people call Xbox "oXbox" here?

[Jrecee]

Let's just hope they really don't go with "720" for the next one, ugh. Sega needs to teach everyone about naming systems.

I dont think theyll be interested to hear from the company that had one lone successful console.

[Menegrothx]

Let's just hope they really don't go with "720" for the next one, ugh. Sega needs to teach everyone about naming systems.

I dont think theyll be interested to hear from the company that had one lone successful console.

By the end of its life the Xbox cost $149 in the US, and between 2001 and 2005 Microsoft had reported a nearly $4 billion loss selling them.

http://www.racketboy.com/retro/microsof ... al-console

[MrPopo]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_leader

[Pulsar_t]

Dreamcast was a nice name and it fit the original design and M.O. of the console itself.
Megadrive fit the PAL and Japanese markets rather well.
Wii was a marketing gamble that paid off big time, doesn't make it any less silly.

But in all honesty most console names are highly unoriginal and nothing fancier than your stereotypical engineer could come up with.. the Xbox takes the crown for being the dullest yet.

One more thing.. who cares about console semantics? Is anyone really flustered if I call it 0Xbox?

[CRTGAMER]

I just call it XBox and the newer Microsoft console 360.
Waiting for the PSX-PS1-PSOne debate again.

[Menegrothx]

It's intresting how the original Xbox can be run with Linux or FreeBSD as it's operating system

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_leader

Yet it lost in sales to PS2. I doubt they made up 4 billion just by selling overpriced DVD remotes and headsets. Or did users have to pay for Xbox live on the Original Xbox too? I got mine after the whole service had already been shut down so I dont know

[AppleQueso]

It's intresting how the original Xbox can be run with Linux or FreeBSD as it's operating system

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_leader

Yet it lost in sales to PS2. I doubt they made up 4 billion just by selling overpriced DVD remotes and headsets. Or did users have to pay for Xbox live on the Original Xbox too? I got mine after the whole service had already been shut down so I dont know

The point of the system was to get the brand out there and get people familiar with it.

In that regard, I think it did just fine.

[xan_racketBOY_fan]

oXbox is really just an abbreviation for it on the forums, I doubt a lot of folks walk into their local game shop and actually say, "where are your oh-xbox games/accessories?".

[MrPopo]

It's intresting how the original Xbox can be run with Linux or FreeBSD as it's operating system

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_leader

Yet it lost in sales to PS2. I doubt they made up 4 billion just by selling overpriced DVD remotes and headsets. Or did users have to pay for Xbox live on the Original Xbox too? I got mine after the whole service had already been shut down so I dont know

The point of the system was to get the brand out there and get people familiar with it.

In that regard, I think it did just fine.

Precisely. Microsoft had the cash reserves to take a large loss on the Xbox to do better the next generation and the generation after that.

[Hobie-wan]

I still call it "old Nintendo" in conversation.

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