The names Xbox could end up with
Would you buy an M-PAC?
It is not always easy to make names for new consoles. A name must be nice and "attractive" and deleted all equally good. Site EDGE recently had an interview with Seamus Blackley, one of the members of the team that created the first Xbox. Blackley said that there were many suggestions as to what could be called xbox. Many names were proposed code name. A couple of names were WEP - Windows Entertainment Project and DirectX Box (hence the name Xbox).
Below you can read the list of names Xbox could be called.
- 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 TAC)
- 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 Two Play)
- VIC (Virtual Interactive Center - disks / games could be called VICS)
- MARZ (Microsoft Active Reality Zone)
- TSO (Three, Six, Zero)
- EHQ (Entertainment Headquarters)
- O2 (Ozone or Optimum Optical Odyssey)
- MIC (Microsoft Interactive Center)
- R & R (Reality and Revolution)
- MEA (Microsoft Entertainment Activator)
- AMP (Active a Player)
- VPS (Virtual Play System)
- MAP (Microsoft Action Play)
- MEGA (Microsoft Entertainment & Gaming Attendant or Microsoft Entertainment & Gaming Assembly)
- CPG (Cyber Playground)
- APPOINTMENTS (Virtual Reality & Entertainment Venture)
- OM (Odyssey of the Mind)
- P2 (Power Play)
- IS1 (Interactive System In One)
- MET (Microsoft Entertainment Technology or Microsoft Entertainment Theatre)
- TSO (Three, Six, Zero)
I guess MS reused that for the 360
Liked FACE :) FACE 2.0/2 FACE