Why is it called an Xbox 360?

[Agent Abe Caprine]

My autistic son wants an Xbox 360 for Flag Day. I am aware that Xbox is a console brand, but stumped on what 360 refers to.

 

[Red Hood]

You should get your son a PS Triple so he can be as baller as possible

 

[Bob's Vagene]

Stop fucking your son.

 

[Genesis Does]

Everybody knows that the PS Triple make the best games. All they have on the Xbox circle is Tears of War and Gaylo 3. I don't know about you, but that shit ain't ballin'. We ain't trying to do geometry, we tryin' to play some games.

 

[The Ugly One]

Serious answer;

Because Microsoft's marketing department decided "Xbox 2" would make it sound like it was somehow less advanced than "Playstation 3." Thus the Xbox series branding has been doomed to be retarded bullshit forevermore.

 

[Retink]

Because when you see it, you want to do a 360 and run the other way to get a PS triple to be ballin' !

Serious Answer: From what I remember it was in part because they wanted it to be backwards compatible with original Xbox games but that fell through at some point after the name was decided on.

 

[The Last Stand]

Serious answer;

Because Microsoft's marketing department decided "Xbox 2" would make it sound like it was somehow less advanced than "Playstation 3." Thus the Xbox series branding has been doomed to be retarded bullshit forevermore.

360 meaning all around entertainment center.

 

[WinchesterPremium]

Because when you see it, you want to do a 360 and run the other way to get a PS triple to be ballin' !

Serious Answer: From what I remember it was in part because they wanted it to be backwards compatible with original Xbox games but that fell through at some point after the name was decided on.

If you did a 360 you'd run in the same direction tho

 

[Retink]

If you did a 360 you'd run in the same direction tho

No you dummy, you do a 360 and then after you've done the 360, you run the other way.

 

[Peanut Butter in Peril]

360 no scope

 

[Dialtone]

 

[Otis Boi]

Serious answer;

Because Microsoft's marketing department decided "Xbox 2" would make it sound like it was somehow less advanced than "Playstation 3." Thus the Xbox series branding has been doomed to be retarded bullshit forevermore.

I always thought I was because the 360 would work standing up or laying down as well but that might be designers following after marketers

 

[Dom Cruise]

Serious answer;

Because Microsoft's marketing department decided "Xbox 2" would make it sound like it was somehow less advanced than "Playstation 3." Thus the Xbox series branding has been doomed to be retarded bullshit forevermore.

This is definitely the reason and it's stupid because the Xbox brand was established to be something more powerful than the other consoles, so an "Xbox 2" should have stacked up fine against "Playstation 3" because yeah, it's 2, but it's XBOX 2!

 

[The Southwest Strangla]

who cares. Xboxes are only for niggers

 

[Testacles Maximus]

Because it represented no change in the company’s direction.

Serious answer: The Wii controller looks like a dildo.

 

[Least Concern]

Now here's a crazy idea.

What if…

What if, when you released a new video game console…

you gave it a new name?

One that wasn't based on any previous names for consoles made by the same company?

Crazy, I know,.

 

[Shig O'nella]

Always thought the 360 was a sly reference to their habit of doing the red ring of death the instant they leave warranty.

 

[Quijibo69]

Xbox wants to be the most confusing game console naming ever. Now it's the new Xbox is called Series for crying out loud.

 

[Poppavalyim Andropoff]

Because there’s 360 different ways it sucks

 

[Cats]

I think it is one of those ninteldo machines that plays electric computer games, like if you took backgammon or parcheesi and put it on a television screen, some kind of virtual game like that.