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[-] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

It mostly comes down to marketing reasons I assume. Me was marketed as in "Me", the computer for personal usage. The second Xbox could not be named Xbox 2, because as we all know the 2 is less than the 3 in Playstation 3, and bigger number is better number, so it was named 360.

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