[hightrix]

To further your argument, look at the XBOX. It is impossible to tell which is the latest model by name alone. Where the playstation is simple, the latest is the 5, the previous was the 4, and the one before that was the 3.

[joegibbs]

The Xbox One.

"Oh you mean the original one?"

No the one that came after the 360.

"The third one?"

No that was the second one, the One was the third.

"OK what are they on now?"

The Series series.

"The Series series?"

Yeah the X and S. Don't confuse that with the Xbox One X or S, or the 360 S.

"Right but what's the difference?"

The X is better than the S because X is a bigger letter. But they run the same games, but they're different. They're the same though.

[ted_bunny]

Nailed the "Who's on first?" vibe.

[chocochunks]

Oh and your Xbox Controller S won't work with your Xbox One S but it will work with your original Xbox.

[coffeebeqn]

Oh no I just realized the next generation will be called Microsoft 365 Xbox Copilot

[pipes]

ROG Ally X vs. ROG Xbox Ally X.

Also, it is possibly the worst console name of all time.

I don't even know what Xbox is now, is it a service, is it a console, I'm not even joking really.

Also visual studio code Vs full fat visual studio. Thanks Microsoft you just made it more difficult to web search both products.

Full fat .Net Vs dotnet core Vs standard or is that .net.

[Sharlin]

There will be an integrated voice LLM that hallucinates advice and "useful" tips as you play and cannot be turned off

[debugnik]

They'll make cheating bots a first party feature just to sell Copilot.

[banku_brougham]

Microsoft 365 Xbox X Copilot S

[pezezin]

To be fair, only Sony follows a consistent naming convention. Nintendo's console names also defy any logic, as did Sega back in the day.

[OkayPhysicist]

Nintendo's strategy isn't the absolute worst. They mostly just give new names to new console designs, with modifiers to specify next-gen-without-major-changes. So the SNES was a next-gen NES, the N64 was its own thing, the GameCube was its own thing, the Gameboy, Gameboy Color, and Gameboy Advanced were iterations on the same thing, DS, DSi, 3DS were all generation steps. WiiU was a next-gen Wii, Switch 2 is a next-gen Switch.

They probably should have called the WiiU the Super Wii or Wii 2 or something, but on the whole they've got a mostly coherent naming convention.

[elzbardico]

In terms of naming, no other entity in computing will ever be able to surpass IBM solipsistic naming habits:

System 360 OS/2 DB 2 MQ series. PC

It is like IBM just refused to entertain the idea of having competitors, why should it them name a database by any other name than DB?

[Fire-Dragon-DoL]

You are forgetting Valve!

We got the Steam Controller and the new... Steam Controller.

We also got the Steam machine, as well as the new Steam machine.

Lol

[longnighthn]

Sony's naming style for its mobile phone series is also terrible.