Major Nelson thinks 'Xbone' nickname is disrespectful

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Xbox One's 'Xbone' nickname hasn't gone down too well with Microsoft's Larry Hryb (aka Major Nelson), who believes that the name "disrespects" the effort made by the Xbox team back at Redmond.

"I don't like it," Hryb replied when asked on NeoGAF what he thought of the nickname.

"It disrespects the teams that have put in thousands of hours (already) into the development of the product. Sure, it's cheeky but I don't care for it myself."

Gamers branded the upcoming console the Xbone shortly after its reveal back in May.

And it appears to have hit the mainstream, too. Snoop Lion referred to the console as the "Xbone" during a Reddit AMA last week.

Some have since renamed the console the Xbox One-Eighty, following Microsoft's multiple U-turns.

Xbox One launches on November 22.

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MonokumaPosted:

Raci
Breading I agree with major nelson I don't like the name either


Well everything that comes out that's this big is going to have a nickname


yeah, I know but they didn't have to make the name so degrading

RaciPosted:

Breading I agree with major nelson I don't like the name either


Well everything that comes out that's this big is going to have a nickname

MonokumaPosted:

I agree with major nelson I don't like the name either

SanchezioPosted:

Well, I guess he's entitled to his opinion but seriously, I don't think it's disrespecting the teams working on it.

MentalistPosted:

It's just a nickname, he shoudln't make such a big deal about it.

MentalistPosted:

Dr-J
JPEG Xbone :D Why would you think that is disrespectful? It's just funny.


Major nelson has a weird mindset. He thinks people are trying to be disrespectful but it's really just easier to say


He shouldn't get bothered over a nickname to be honest.

KillzonedPosted:

DUDE I LOVE HIS HAT!

But anywyas that's funny to see Xbone Haha. Never heard that one before!

RemeAmazePosted:

R2-D2 It's appropriate from the WTF introduction/reveal and that restriction DRM u-turn.


I fail to see how doing a "180" is such a bad thing, surely it shows they value the customer feedback and change the product to cater for the majority of customers. Furthermore it showed how unwilling people's minds are to innovation and how everyone is naive to want less innovative improvements such as obvious hardware specs. I haven't seen an article in months (if at all) explaining to everyone the cloud based power and that for every one xbone there is 10 on the cloud... Always online is inevitably the next step just consumers are too thick/ poor to support it.

LETHAL407Posted:

Maybe they should have called it the Xbox 720 then.. They didn't got to that much effort just to call it the Xbox One... :-/

Dr-JPosted:

JPEG Xbone :D Why would you think that is disrespectful? It's just funny.


Major nelson has a weird mindset. He thinks people are trying to be disrespectful but it's really just easier to say


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