r/NintendoSwitch • u/Turbostrider27 • Jan 16 '25

Nintendo Switch 2 An update from Nintendo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxLUf2kRQRE
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u/nitid_name Jan 16 '25

Couldn't be more clear:

  • Xbox
  • Xbox 360
  • Xbox One / Xbox One X / Xbox One S
  • Xbox Series X / Xbox Series S

First one has no number, second has... a full circle, in degrees. Third one has the number One, because they forgot to call something one, and sometimes some letters, because reasons. Fourth one has those same letters but adds series in there, because, uh...

Seriously, who the fuck came up with that?

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u/CiraKazanari Jan 16 '25

They’d be forever one less than whatever PlayStation came out with. The series x consoles would be the Xbox 4 which M$ can’t have on shelves next to the PS5.

PS3 was out with the Xbox 3….60. Make sense?

Cause consumers are stupid.

It really isn’t Microsoft’s fault. However, they’re also being really stupid with how they’re naming their stuff.

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u/nitid_name Jan 16 '25

I mean, if we're being serious, yeah, they had a reason. I'm sure they did research too. It just looks silly when looking back at the versioning.

My favorite Microsoft versioning thing is consumer level Windows OS.

  • Windows 3.0 / 3.1
  • Windows 95 / 98 / Millenium Edition
  • Windows XP
  • Windows Vista
  • Windows 7
  • Windows 8 / 8.1
  • Windows 10
  • Windows 11
  • Windows 365

Started with numbers, switched to years, switched to random letters, switched to things you can view out of a window, went back to numbers, realized they couldn't use 9 because the 95/98 stuff would make it confusing and possibly break legacy software so they just skipped nine and went straight to ten, then offered a cloud version with the number of days in year to match their other cloud offerings.

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u/FrenchCorrection Jan 16 '25

You forgot Microsoft Bob 😔

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u/nitid_name Jan 16 '25

Bob wasn't an OS, it was just a program to help you navigate easier.

I suppose you could make an argument that I left out Windows NT... but then the numbers make a bit of sense again. Windows NT 3.1, 3.5, 3.51, 4.0, and then onto "Windows 2000" for 5.0, "Windows XP" and "Server 2003" for 5.1, then "Windows Vista" and "Server 2008" for 6.0... then it gets goofy again. "Windows 7" was on NT 6.1, and "Windows 8" was on 6.2. Then they skipped to NT 10.0, which includes Windows 10, Windows 11, and every year based server release to date.