The Xbox 360's name came from the idea that it was a revolution in gaming. Having 720 completely defeats the purpose of the name and annoys me when anyone uses it. 
 
Rant over. 
 
What do you think Microsoft's new console should be named? Should it keep the Xbox name or move on to something more... marketable?

The Xbox 360's name came from the idea that it was a revolution in gaming. Having 720 completely defeats the purpose of the name and annoys me when anyone uses it. 
 
Rant over. 
 
What do you think Microsoft's new console should be named? Should it keep the Xbox name or move on to something more... marketable?

720 would be two revolutions in gaming. 360x2=720.

I can understand that how people will think that, but it just doesn't qualify in my book, lol. It just sounds like a skateboarding trick after a while.

Cool story bro.

It won't be 720. It'll most likely be "revolution" or "next" or some shit

EX BOX SEVEN TWENTY 
 
 
sounds good 

Creamypies is correct though, it's not the name, it's just what everyone calls the next XBox because we don't know the name. Like I said, 360x2 = 720, so the second 360 is called 720. It's just a temporary name dude, don't worry about it.
 
Now if Microsoft actually names it 720, then it's dumb. But right now, it's just a stupid code name that people have to use, because Xbox 3 sounds even stupider than Xbox 720.

i can't think of anything better than 720.  XB3?

Xbox 362?

It's going to be Xbox^3, or cubed.  Like the Nintendo Gamecube, it'll be shaped like a cube.

" @MasterOfPenguins_Zell: I know why people are calling it 720, it's just irked with me since I first heard it. I am just hoping people don't actually think/assume that's what it will be named. "

" i can't think of anything better than 720.  XB3? "

" It's going to be Xbox^3, or cubed.  Like the Nintendo Gamecube, it'll be shaped like a cube. "

" I guess the real question is... what else could they call it? "

XBOX363?

" It's going to be Xbox^3, or cubed.  Like the Nintendo Gamecube, it'll be shaped like a cube. "

" The Xbox 360's name came from the idea that it was a revolution in gaming. Having 720 completely defeats the purpose of the name and annoys me when anyone uses it.  Rant over. "

" @creamypies: Really though, who cares. I'm not really ready for another Xbox, so when they come out with the next one, it will have a name, and then we will have one. So who cares for now? It doesn't matter. "

No, I got it!...
 
YBOY!
 
Get it?

X Red Ring of Death?
 
 
Zing

" It won't be 720. It'll most likely be "revolution" or "next" or some shit "

Xbox ME: Home Edition

xbox 1080 0_0 and this would be the advert 
 
 

seven twenty sounds pretty tight to me

They just need to call it the Playstation 5 to fuck with sony.
 
That or the master chief chest.

Imagine if MS did patent a Playstation 4/5 before Sony. That would be funny.

Xbox unlimited? I'd buy it.

Xbox Cortana.  Games are now projected to you holographically.

Hate to break it to you fella but the 360 is called the 360 not because it revolutionised anything, but because Microsoft didn't want the XBOX 2 next to the Playstation 3. When Grandma buys little Timmy a console for Christmas she's gonna go for the one with the higher digit.

I was thinking that if they made their next Xbox to be completely online, like OnLive is, they could have called in Xbox Live. 
 
That would've been cool.

Here's the 'story' of how the 360 name came to be.  Looks like I was wrong, kind of. 
 
In generating a name for the system, the team threw out Xbox 2. "We've shifting the power of the gaming systems from technology to hardware to the gamer being the center of the industry, and Xbox 2 just sounds like it fits into that old scheme. We threw it out." 

After numerous attempts, the team favorite became Xbox 360 because, among other reasons, it puts gamers at the center of the circle. So they decided to try it out, give it a sort of Rorschach test. Microsoft went to the public -- gamers and non-gamers, the second gamer in the household, the NASCAR dad and the soccer mom, as Allard says -- and asked them what they thought of when they heard the name "360." 

One survey taker said, "Um, the first time I kissed my girlfriend on a Ferris wheel." Another responder said, "I love music. The word 360 makes me think of vinyl. Another said, "The first time I landed a kickflip on my skateboard." Another said, "When I exchanged rings with my husband in our vows, and I understood the significance of the ring, you know, a lifetime commitment." The answers, the team learned, were wildly different because of the unconventional name. But they all connected with a theme -- they were all emotional, personal experiences that evoked joy. "So, the reason we went in was different than the reason we came out." 

" @rjayb89 said:

" It's going to be Xbox^3, or cubed.  Like the Nintendo Gamecube, it'll be shaped like a cube. "

I can completely see this. "

why did you even say that?  did they announce the next xbox was going to be called 720?

" why did you even say that?  did they announce the next xbox was going to be called 720? "

XboxStation 4.

They should call it YBOX: Generation Y!

" It won't be 720. It'll most likely be "revolution" or "next" or some shit "

What if it was something really lame like... Xbox 360 2?

" @jukezypoo said:

" It won't be 720. It'll most likely be "revolution" or "next" or some shit "

Xbox Next.... not a chance.  Xbox Revolution... I could see that. "

GiantXBoXmb -Not a subliminal message o.0 
It would be cool if the next MS console doesnt have xbox in the name, just call it something completely different.