A Way Out developer Josef Fares calls Xbox Series X “a f**king confusing name” – Eurogamer.net
And if I?m a bit baffled, picture the typical punter. There?s something to be said for a simplified line of product and an uncomplicated rates strategy.– Shahid Kamal Ahmad (@shahidkamal) September 8, 2020.
Reckon Microsofts naming system for its next-generation consoles is puzzling? Josef Fares definitely does.
The outspoken chief developer of Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, A Way Out, and the upcoming It Takes Two – infamous for this “F ** k the Oscars” speech at during the 2017 Game Awards – had some option words about the Xbox Series X and S in an interview with IGN:
“What the f ** ks going on with Microsoft? Like Series S, X, Mex, Next. What is this X, S.
Eurogamer Next-Gen News Cast – the Star Wars games we d enjoy to see nextFares certainly isnt the first person to call the Xbox Series naming convention complicated – although few have gone on the record to discuss it in quite the same method.
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Thinking Xboxs existing identifying strategy might be bad. pic.twitter.com/oJItFucgGg— KZ?? (@KZXcellent) September 8, 2020.
” Thats a f ** king complicated name,” he said. “What the f ** ks going on with Microsoft? Like Series S, X, Mex, Next. Call it the Microsoft Box and thats it. What is this X, S.
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For the folks arguing recently that the Xbox naming is never confusing and everyone calls it Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S and the game designers who journey up are incompetent: this was the immediate * trending * reaction to the Xbox Series S and Series X statements. https://t.co/Wn160O8VX5— Rami Ismail (????) (@tha_rami) September 8, 2020.
Microsoft has a reasonable few Xbox consoles it launches video games for presently: the Xbox One, Xbox One X, Xbox One S, Xbox One S All-Digital Edition, Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S. Phew!
In an interview with Kotaku from autumn 2020, Phil Spencer discussed the subject:.
” On the pronunciation ability of S and X, I sort of concur theyre not the easiest words to articulate or letters to proclaim entirely, but I think itll be pretty apparent when someone enters into the store.”.
Spencer included Microsoft is depending on the different prices of its consoles to help individuals going shopping online or at the store to tell them apart (the Xbox Series X costs ₤ 449, the Xbox Series S costs ₤ 249).
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