now that xbox has a new CEO with a background from facebook and "coreAI", things are looking bleaker than ever for microsoft's line of increasingly rectangularly prismatic consoles.

with a new CEO comes a new outlook (ha ha) on everything, including product names. ms sharma -- can i call you asha? -- i know you're reading this. i know microsoft reads my posts for my ingenious feature ideas. please, please call the next xbox something reasonable. i have two suggestions:

  • Xbox Series X2|S2: this is the safe option. it's the one after the series X|S. hopefully obvious to everyone. 20% of the wii U's failure was because it wasn't called the "wii 2". don't believe me? look at what they called their newest console. unfortunately, this means the one X and one S are the "odd ones out" with their weird naming scheme. you can either accept that and live with it, or...
  • Xbox X3|S3: okay. hear me out.
    • Xbox One: the first "new xbox"
    • Xbox One S & Xbox One X: the revised "new xboxes". 100% compatible with the xbone. call these the X1 and S1.
    • Xbox Series X & Xbox Series S: the second generation of "new xboxes". plays all the non-kinect xbone games. i know this is gonna sound crazy, but retroactively rename these the Xbox X2 and S2!
    • Xbox X3 & S3: the consoles after the X2 and S2. compatible with all S1 and X1 and S2 and X2 games.
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