New Xbox 720 is actually called Xbox.

[SonicWaffle]

Not bothered by the names really, they have already got me hooked in with their branding tbh, now I've built up a network of friends etc on live, gamerscore and so on (did used to be a big PS player but they lost me with the ps3) yes so they could call it the gyrating s*** machine for all I care.

I'm with you on that one. I was a die-hard PS2 fan, but after the 360 came out I realised just how utterly horrendous the Playstation controller is, with the PS3 being even worse than predecessors. Stupid flappy-paddle triggers, zero attempt to mould it to the shape of the hand, so light you can snap it in half...


Yeah, I won't be going back to Sony

 

[SonicWaffle]

PREDICTION: The next person to post will not have read the post stating the topic's rumor is a hoax, and will speak about said rumor as if it is true or probable.

Prediction fail. Don't quit the day job

 

[fix-the-spade]

Bah rumours, just hurry and release an official spec so we can all tear it apart Microsoft. Go on, tell us it's got twice as much total RAM as the 360, a whole freakin' Gigabyte this time!

The other thing is they keep saying developers are only just now taking the 360 to 100% capacity in what it can achieve so how are developers going to feel when its this much more powerful?

That, as they say, is a load of marketing hooey.

Take for example, Battlefield 3, that needs to letterbox (as in have lines of dead pixels at the top and bottom of the screen) and run special low-resolution textures just for the Xbox to run it at all. Other games such as Rage, Crysis/2 have encountered similar problems. So 100% of Xbox 360's capability was reached some time ago, the problem now is making stuff happen within that given performance.

 

[SinisterGehe]

It is is like I-something, but better there is 2 of them and they are drunk and leaning on each other's shoulders forming X. HOW ORIGINAL! It is like no one thought this before.

Now only thing left to see is that are they going to try to copyright X and sue everyone who has product that starts with X. (Porn industry is so going to suffer). Just like our dead MAC tried with I.

Wonderful...

But I am still sticking to my PCs

Solve Media: total shamble - agreed!

 

[Alfador_VII]

The most amusing thing about all this is the original Xbox name is actually a non-name because they couldn't think of anything better.

During development the console was known inside Microsoft as the "DirectX box" (because it was based around DirectX graphics etc. from Windows), which tended to get abbreviated to "Xbox" in memos and emails.

They spent a lot of time and money trying to come up with a proper name for the final product, then just gave up and called it Xbox

 

[Tom_green_day]

I call my PS3 a 'playstation' not a 'playstation 3' or 'ps3' so I think this is actually fine. Saves having the 4 syllables that aren't really that important.