the theory i like to believe is they saw everyone call the xbox 360 “the 360” so they assumed if they called the new xbox the xbox one everyone would call it “the one”
Why do you assume that them using the name meant no one noticed? There’s a non-zero chance the person who came up with the name was trolling the company and deliberately set that up. Stranger things have happened, like the phalluses on the Little Mermaid poster art.
There’s also a chance that some marketing people came up with it, higher ups liked it, then didn’t appreciate anyone pointing out the name they like had a potentially embarrassing abbreviation and would respond negatively to that. Or maybe they already had a culture of people pointing out things like that getting flak for it and anyone who noticed just stayed quiet. Hell, I could easily see that kind of culture being established when people objected to all the actual deliberate anti-features MS has been adding over the years.
I’m still not over the fact that not ONE person at Microsoft said “Really? We’re calling it the XBone?”
the theory i like to believe is they saw everyone call the xbox 360 “the 360” so they assumed if they called the new xbox the xbox one everyone would call it “the one”
Why do you assume that them using the name meant no one noticed? There’s a non-zero chance the person who came up with the name was trolling the company and deliberately set that up. Stranger things have happened, like the phalluses on the Little Mermaid poster art.
There’s also a chance that some marketing people came up with it, higher ups liked it, then didn’t appreciate anyone pointing out the name they like had a potentially embarrassing abbreviation and would respond negatively to that. Or maybe they already had a culture of people pointing out things like that getting flak for it and anyone who noticed just stayed quiet. Hell, I could easily see that kind of culture being established when people objected to all the actual deliberate anti-features MS has been adding over the years.