[QUOTE="savagetwinkie"]
[QUOTE="SolidTy"]
I think your assertion is the silliest thing I've seen in 10.5 years on the nose, to this day. :o :cool: obviously kidding : P
No one said anything was hard to say, it's about syllables, their power in day to day common language, and slang. It's based on experience with the public, retail, and life. It's also not "more kind of stupid' to "not mention" something either, lol, as if there was a deliverate omission rather than keeping the post short. Strangely, you seem to understand my point because you suggest "new Xbox" as a variation only proving my point further. ;)
All of these rumors and this thread's contents are idle speculation, and none of it actually matters enough to slap labels on users thoughts being stupid and silly. Don't think I don't see your posts backfiring in times of SW past. You are free to post as you have proven you will, and it's okay. Say your piece and be done with it. If I wanted to be disrespectful, I would tell you your post was stupid and silly, and then lay my point down. Why bother? That doesn't make me right now that I trolled before laying down a stupid argument in a speculation thread about a possible name of some product. I would also quote you more often and point out your holes in logic if I was going on that path, which both of us know are many times deliberately done for trolling sake, right? It's true though that Infinity is not future proofing the brand, for future Xbox machines to come along after. Xbox Infinity +1 FTW!!!!
Besides, none of your rebuttal proves anything other than you disagree, you didn't prove me wrong, you didn't back up or cite any experience at work or in life, you didn't prove anything was actually silly or stupid. Why go to such efforts anyways, as the likely outcome of this speculation is pointless? It boils down to just ad hominem boring posts. The new SW, crappy as ever. :cry::cry:
It's fine to disagree, it's your right. It's my right as well. It's silly to call the post silly, when the most likely outcome is that the 720's real eventual name won't in any way be associated with this "infinity" moniker. It's your right to be silly though, so be silly and have a merry day. :P
SolidTy
Sorry, I was trying to be nice, so let me rephrase that. Its f***ing stupid to believe that syllabes (unless we are talking about an extremely long word) have any real world impact on naming, it's not hard to say which is more of an impact and shorter naming conventions come about because people can still clearly understand what everyone's talking about. The people selling/designing the 360 are actually educated people and when you work in a place with educated people slang isn't as prevalent as you claim it to be. They don't care what uneducated people are going to call their product.Why should my counter argument need any proof if your assertion doesnt'? Also I'm using "kind of stupid" as a way to describe the name over your assertion it just has too many syllables. So its more "kind of stupid" (oh i forgot the quotes around it but **** why should I care about grammer on gamespot) than it is to9 long to say, because the name of the successor can't be a number any more. Unless they are going to call it lemniscate or have some slogan with "figure 8" in it infinity seems like a name they'll run into a corner with.
Edit: Also you're claim about working in retial isn't evidence. First you can't prove you work in retail, but I'll believe it. Second you made an observation which hardly qualifies as proof, you have no data to back up your claim just a perciefied result over an insignificant sample size.
:lol: :lol:
I got you where I want you. :P
They do care how the public perceives and receives their product, as that is their target audience that will be buying it, that's the most vital part of the sales equation as some would argue. Gaming isn't exclusive to this idea either, it's hundreds of years old, if not thousands. Internally, they could name the device something highbrow, but many times that won't fly. All these issues inluding name are brought up and spoken about in greater detail that you give them credit for, whether you believe so or not.Educated people would consider the ramifications of a poor name on the market. I understand you feel they downplay naming schemes, but I know otherwise, but I won't be giving any personal information to prove that other than an idea you may want to consider. I also stated above, I don't care, I actually like the interaction with posters more than this particular topic. Whatever they call it, the sh*tbox, my money is already waiting. ;) They can name it the Xbox : Lemniscate of Bernoulli if they desire, but they won't and there is a reason why.I do think Infinite would be a better possiblity (three syllables), but Infinity I don't see. Remember that I also stated they would name it whatever they please, even overriding any arguments. I also said companies do this all the time.
I already said, they can name it whatever they want, but the masses will just rename it if it's too long to state. People want to buy things and leave the store, names catch on, it's the circle of life. If they don't take that into consideration, that would seem contrary to their past. However, I see you felt differently and you expressed yourself accordingly in the speculation/name thread. :D
To respond to your edit : That's my point, too much work involved in speculation if I submit tangible evidence. I realize what I offered was anecdotal unless I give you personal information, but why do so online, or in a speculatory thread for that matter over a product name? That's rhetorical as the answer is obvious.:P
you got me right where you wanted? Everything you said doesn't actually touch the issue of how idiotic it is to think the syllable count... matters. Please try again and actually explain how syllable count matters. How does 4 syllables make a product look bad and how does 3 syllables make it look good. Considering the rest of the world does not seem to follow this logic. Naming matters but the argument was specifically about the syllable count which you didn't even relate to your argument.This has nothing to do about speculation about what the name will be. You made an assumption that companies base their naming off of syllables and what works well for slang. You used "evidence" based on observartion at your place of work to suggest that since people use slang, companies care about making their product name based on the slang. I called this silly, because it is.
So just because you said perception of the product is related to the amount of syllables in the name, you didn't actually connect the two together.
Hopefully that's the googley eyes.
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