The Xbox’s are named the way they are because the Playstation is named the way it is.
Xbox don’t want to have the Xbox 4 versus the Playstation 5 because, quite honestly, people are generally dumb and would see that 5 is a bigger number than 4 so assume the Playstation is newer and better.
Imagine they skip 12 and call it 13 like they did with W10
With as little sense as Microsoft makes most of the time, that decision actually does make sense. A lot of programs and scripts were lazy about checking the Windows version and just checked for the presence of a ‘9’ in the version string to determine if they were running on Windows 95/98.
A bunch of shit would have broken if they had released Windows 10 as Windows 9, which is what it should have been semantically.
Those are premium windows 14 features.
Imagine they skip 12 and call it 13 like they did with W10
Microsoft always has such a weird relationship with naming conventions… just look at Xbox and all of its descendants.
Can’t wait for Windows 720 X Series XS.
You forgot “One”.
One can’t wait for Windows 720 X Series XS.
Indeed.
You. I like you.
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The Xbox’s are named the way they are because the Playstation is named the way it is.
Xbox don’t want to have the Xbox 4 versus the Playstation 5 because, quite honestly, people are generally dumb and would see that 5 is a bigger number than 4 so assume the Playstation is newer and better.
Remember that the Third Pound Burger failed against the McDonalds Quarter Pounder because people thought 1/3 was smaller than 1/4.
perfect example haha
With as little sense as Microsoft makes most of the time, that decision actually does make sense. A lot of programs and scripts were lazy about checking the Windows version and just checked for the presence of a ‘9’ in the version string to determine if they were running on Windows 95/98.
A bunch of shit would have broken if they had released Windows 10 as Windows 9, which is what it should have been semantically.
Never knew that, and it makes total sense.
That’s not how it works. It started as a joke, until someone took it at face value and started spreading it as a fact. Like the flat earth
A Microsoft dev literally gave that as the reason, my man.
Can I ask you for a source then? If it’s true I’ll re-evaluate my life choices
Dude deleted his account, but the original comment is here.
Well TIL. I thought nobody in their sane mind would actually check the OS version like that, but reality proved me wrong
Flat earth did not start as a joke. It was a serious take that was mocked.
They are more likely to skip Windows 13 due to “triskaidekaphobia” (fear of the number 13) though, like they did with internal versions for Office:
But I imagine it will be something more stupid like Windows L or Windows One.
The next version will clearly be Windows 11 Series W.
For some reason Windows L sounds like the worst possible name for a Windows version.
Hey that’s why I wrote 14. Because I think they will
Windows 9 was a real thing.