Xbox如何被命名的

作者: anjohn (安囧) 看板: XBOX
標題: [閒聊] Xbox的命名
時間: Tue Jul  9 04:21:29 2013


>From http://tinyurl.com/k2f82u3

剛剛在IGN看到的文章，說明了Xbox如何被命名的，以及有哪些被提議的名字，

還挺有趣的，貼給各位看看。


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In an interview with Edge, Seamus Blackley has revealed a long list of names
that were floated to him and the rest of the console's launch team.

"First, there were our code names, which were WEP – ‘Windows Entertainment
Project’ – designed to make Microsoft executives comfortable," he revealed.
"Midway – ‘Midway between a PC and a console or ‘Battle of Midway’ – you
decide – and DirectX Box, which was shortened to xbox in email very early on.

"When we got the first approval, Kevin [Bachus] was told we had to get a new
name, because ‘xbox’ wasn’t legally sound, so against his judgment he did
so, and got the phase two, or ‘car’ names. These were so bad we didn’t even
save them, but I remember making fun of one of them by calling it the
‘Microsoft Bunduss’. Then we got the ‘acronym’ phase from the naming
geniuses.

"Phase four was a battle between us and the naming guys, when we decided we
just wanted to risk it and go with Xbox – since that’s what everyone called
it anyway – and they wanted, for some unknowable reason, to call it ‘11-X’
or ‘Eleven-X’. Finally, we told them no, but still had to decide: X-Box,
xBox, XboX, Xbox, X-box…"

下面是完整命名名單

MAX (Microsoft Action Experience)
AIO (All In One)
MIND (Microsoft Interactive Network Device)
FACE (Full Action Center)
MITH (Microsoft Interactive Theatre)
XON (Experience Optimised Network)
MVPC (Microsoft Virtual Play Center)
TAC (Total Action Center – discs/games could be called TACs)
MARC (Microsoft Action Reality Center)
LEX (Live Entertainment Experience)
M-PAC (Microsoft Play and Action Center)
RPM (Real Performance Machine)
MOX (Microsoft Optimal Experience)
E2 (Extreme Experience)
MTG (Microsoft Total Gaming)
VIP (Virtual Interactive Player)
PTP or P2P (Powered To Play)
VIC (Virtual Interactive Center – disks/games could be called VICs)
MARZ (Microsoft Active Reality Zone)
TSO (Three, Six, Zero)
EHQ (Entertainment Headquarters)
O2 (Optimal Ozone or Optical Odyssey)
MIC (Microsoft Interactive Center)
R&R (Reality and Revolution)
MEA (Microsoft Entertainment Activator)
AMP (Active Microsoft Player)
VPS (Virtual Play System)
MAP (Microsoft Action Play)
MEGA (Microsoft Entertainment & Gaming Attendant or Microsoft Entertainment &
      Gaming Assembly)
CPG (CyberPlayGround)
VERV (Virtual Entertainment & Reality Venture)
OM (Odyssey of the Mind)
P2 (PowerPlay)
IS1 (Interactive System In One)
MET (Microsoft Entertainment Technology or Microsoft Entertainment Theatre)

有些真是... 囧

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