The Worst & Best Game Console Names
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- Today I wanted to talk about Video Game Console Names.
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Microsoft has the worst naming convention out of all. Say what you will about Sony, but going 1-5 is simple stupid and it works, even if it's not creative.
They just don't know how to count. They failed kindergarten but somehow made a game console.
I'm still upset we never got the Xbox 720
Coming from someone who hasn’t played any xbox console but Xbox 360 once:
So it starts with xbox
Then goes to Xbox 360
Then xbox one
Then xbox… series or somethin?
Uhhh…. Xbox x? Xbox series one? How does it go after this????
@@RetroIsWatching what's more confusing; the xbox one had the xbox one S and X for that generation's upgrade, but the next-gen consoles were called the xbox series S and X???
@@I_Am_Wasabi_Man WHAT.
I was worried about the DS,
but then just ended up wheezing at "I'll give it a D, for DS". XD
Switch is a goated name
3:14 ah yes my ds
i love this ds clone or is it 3ds idk
That a-load of C!
I really wish xbox kept with the rotational naming scheme
XBOX 90°C ??
Great video, but your takes are awful lmao
Shouldn’t u give a name points for being iconic
Not if it doesn’t sell and stop saying quirky in the 50 posts you made on this video
Kinda find it weird that the Nintendo 64 got harped on for it being just a number but the Atari consoles didn't.
He literally explained why, and I agree. The 64 is just a boring number. It doesn't give any feeling, it isn't some crazy number like 2600, it's just the bit-count. It's like calling the Super Nintendo the Nintendo 16. It's just dull, while the 2600 or 5200 sound much more interesting. 2600 could be interpreted in different ways, like it's supposed to sound futuristic, or it's trying to go for something original since it isn't 2000 or 2500 or something, and 5200 is unique for being 2600 x 2 instead of just tacking on a 2 at the end of Atari 2600.
@@koolaid33 I disagree. Just because a number “isn’t large” doesn’t make it bad. The 64 communicates what it’s about in a succinct and interesting way. It’s the “true” 64-bit system.
@@SPONGEBOB20you gotta put yourself into the era. Imagine a company coming out with a console and it’s just “Nintendo 64” it sounds stupid. It may have a cool aura to it now, but it is still just a bad name
@@koolaid33 Whether or not 2600 is more interesting than 64 is completely subjective. Personally I think 64 is cooler because it is 4 cubed and 4 is my favorite number. Also, the name Atari 2600 comes from it's manufacturing part number which is kind of cool but I think 64 is better in this regard as well because instead of just being arbitrary it actually has a significant meaning to the consumer.
Honestly, same, it feels like this list doesn't appreciate simplicty and just wants every name to have some clever meaning behind it.
This was not it
Never cook again
bro, how could you give the Playstation Portable a D when you completely failed to mention the super iconic nickname given by its initials, PSP?
Like, nobody referred to it as the Playstation Portable. So how could you not take that into consideration?
The same thing also applies to the nintendo entertainment system (NES).
@@Communist-veteran agreed. It just got to a point in the video where Kiro pulled the same stunt one too many times. I thought I'd give him the benefit of doubt lol.
Probably cause he's scoring it on the official name given, and not how the fans refer to it.
@@SakuraAvalon Ya, or else X-BONE would be S-tier. 😄🦴
@SakuraAvalon Except PSP is literally on the PSP device itself. Its official alongside the long name. This is a terribly researched video
Game & Watch goes hard tf
It tells you what it is
It rolls of the tongue nicely
It sounds like "gay men watch" when the announcer in smash says it
You just a hater smh >:(
Damn now that you have said the gay thing I dislike it even more lol
@@RenasMayi lmaooo
You GOTTA make a video on game console designs after this video.
You didn't mention a single bad thing about the Switch name and still gave it a B lol
I would've given it an S...
I get that PlayStation 1 2 3 4 5. Isn’t unique. But it keeps things straight forward. I to this day can’t can’t keep Xbox’s or segas consoles straight
Come on, Neo Geo is an awesome name
Awesome, but it doesn't really mean anything. It's not a play on words, unless SNK was going for Neon Geography, which makes no damn sense. It sounds cool, but that's about it.
So is Game & Watch and GameCube.
And even with this ranking scheme you can't deny that the simpler and more straight forward names actually help those consoles
I suppose, but the Nintendo 64 was a simple, straight forward name and it still didn't sell well. Same with the GameCube, it's literally a game console in a cube shell, didn't change the system from failing.
@koolaid33 PlayStation 2 was just too dominant can't blame anyone. It was like the iPhone of that era.
@koolaid33 N64 should have been called Ultra Ninja. NES to Super Ninja to Ultra Nintendo made too much sense.
@@koolaid33 fun fact: thats because the N64 sucked, most of its reputation was gained from the amazing games it has. But it still had things like the use of cartridges in the CD era, which was extremely annoying since cartridges could barely hold up to 64MB, while CDs could have up to 800MB iirc (plus other factors that made it inferior)
As someone who works in the video game section of a department store, the Xbox Series X/ Series S thing is *even worse* than just being an awful name because the two letters used to differentiate the models sound really, really similar, so often times I or the customer has to specifically clarify or annunciate which model. Like, who thought this was a good idea?!
Even I get confused still when people saying "I got an Xbox Series X/S!" because many people accents isn't really distinctive enough to say "S" or "X" the right way to me so I just go ahead and say "Do you mean the Slim or Xtream model for the Xbox you have/want?"
Microsoft really fucked up the name with the Xbox naming after the "One."
"Series" is the worst name, ever. This is not hyperbole, it's lame, confusing and says nothing about the system. It managed to beat the WiiU at confusing customers and it made Playstation's choice to stick to its number seem good in hindsight. And they probably spent millions to come up with it
I don't think you are taking the context into account here. It makes sense for Nintendo to name their console "Nintendo 64" because back then how many bits a console used not only was important, but it could make or break a console from its release date, as such, many consoles had the bits-number in their name.
It was important, but no other company did this, and most others still did successful enough to scare Nintendo. Like the Saturn outsold the N64 in Japan, and worldwide the PS1 outsold the N64, neither having the bit count. This excuse barely works, because even then the N64 was still a commercial failure for Nintendo, and the only other company to put the bit count in the name was the TurboGrafx-16, and that failed too!
@@koolaid33 Thing is that the Nintendo 64 didn't fail because of the name, it didn't fail, period. Yeah, its competitors were better than it, but Nintendo did manage to remain in the game.
And, as I keep saying, a good name is one that avoids confusion and the Nintendo 64 did when you take context into account.
The bits naming scheme was gone during the 3D era. However, I do agree with you on not confusing costumers. (I like the N64 name too)
@@RenasMayi I know, I was talking about the N64 specifically here.
I think context also matters for many earlier consoles, too. Video Games were this new commercial thing then, so consoles kind of NEEDED to have elaboration in what the product does in their very name. Hence why “Vision” was slapped all over, “Game & Watch” because a product that did both wasn’t around before. Neither was a “Color-TV Game”.
Furthermore, “Nintendo Entertainment System” was chosen because the product was entering a crashed American gaming market; it’s part of a pursuit at rebranding the medium.
Nobody gonna talk about the gamecube getting a C even though it references the shape of the console, the menu designs, the logo with the letters G and C creating a cube, the startup, and the shape of absolutely every add-on?
He should’ve given it an A or S
@@Bnabanana I would give it S, but an A is fair
Gamecube feels too straightforward, and making a square console isnt really that hard. However the logo is a really cool detail, and with how they kept up with the cube part more than just with the console, its kind of deserving at least a b
@@RetroIsWatching A high B to a low S is best
PlayStation has to maintain the numbers, we were promised hallucinogenic brain spores for the PS9.
Ain’t no way that thumbnail’s real.
Are Sony’s console names creative? No. But I’d much rather a dull name that actually provides useful information, than whatever the hell Microsoft does with theirs.
It’s genuinely baffling how bad the Xbox names are.
I’d much rather have something with more personality
But hey given Sony’s games having no personality for the sake of console elitism fits them
Bad or not if they have personality I much prefer that
Sony could have called their names
PlayStation double
PlayStation triple
PlayStation quadruple etc
It would have meant the samething but it would have at least sounded more fun
Missed opportunity
nintendo fanboy moments
@@madnessarcade7447Yeah but go too far in the opposite direction of Sony and you end up with a Wii U, that most fans didn’t even know was a new console. You can’t blame that in the “casuals” I knew hardcore fans that didn’t even know the Wii U was a new console
Wow your opinions are bad
L ratings smh
this actually might be your most controversial video ever holy shit
These are definitely some takes.
Nah
i love breaking the rules i apply before starting to rate and adding new random rules that werent even applied before
In Poland Dreamcast was named by people "makaron" (pasta in eng.) because of the swirl on top
useless info here:
S = yellow
A = green
B = light blue
C = blue
D = purple
F = red
Sorry Kiro but these are the worst takes known to man. 😭
I actually prefer the straightforwardness of sony's naming scheme.
Love your vids, but N64 logo and name are absolutely iconic along with the PS1
Iconic doesn't make it good.
He didn’t even mention the Ultra 64 :(
Nintendo wanted to call the family computer console famicom, but at the time, another company was using the name famicom
I don't think it matters, as everyone eventually started calling it that anyways.
The PlayStation naming scheme is simple and effective. Also, "PSP" is the official name alongside the longer "PlayStation Portable" name. It's literally on the box and device itself that you showed in your video twice (PSP Go has PSP on it, too). This is a terribly researched video.
I thought the Nintendo 64 was a cool name.
Worst takes ever 😭
Fr giving the 64 an F is crazy😭
Also complaining about a simple number upgrade when it's arguably the best way to tell it's an upgrade. Better than the Xbox naming system after the 360.
True
Lol trash vid
@@staticshock4239it’s boring though
I think calling the next generation Nintendo system the "Super Switch" would be a bad ass move and a sweet call back to their past.
Nah its too basic for nintendo
Never let bro cook again
Mega Drive... Saturn... Dreamcast... Sega really had the best, most creative names for their systems, didn't they?
The Xbox naming system either should've been Xbox Series number (the original is Xbox Series 1, the 360 is Xbox Series 2, etc), expanded on the 360 thing (XB1 is Xbox 720, XSX is Xbox 1080, so on and so forth), or at the very least call the Xbox One "Xbox All-in-One".
They did that’s the point of the one in Xbox one
The one stands for all in one
@@madnessarcade7447 that's too confusing though! Xbox All-in-One at least makes the acronym XAiO!!
@@Spacething7474maybe they thought it was too long and wanted something more professional and sounding
720 and 1080 would have been way better tbh
Idk if it’s true but I heard they didn’t call it Xbox 720 because they thought everyone would say Xbox 720p as a joke
Yeah I agree, this guy shouldn't cook again. Horrible.
This feels biased. I was excited to see this video until listening to his complaints.
I'm pretty sure that he's not a fan of the turbografx 16
@@RenasMayi but he is a fan of gamecube
Same here. This is a trash video to me
16:53 if it was the gamesphere from drake and josh i know you would have given it an A
That is possible
Spherical!
The N-Gage deserves an A because it's also a phone, so you use it to "engage" with people.
Also, for Nintendo the Switch "switches" between handheld, docked AND tabletop. So when it only switches from handheld to tabletop, it's a Switch... Lite.
My guy really gave 2600 a B and N64 a F but both are just numbers
You did not listen to a single word he said clearly.
2600 sounds cooler tbf but i kind of get your point
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Hey, you wanna come around to play the loopy?
i respect your opinions but the video is a mess, you had nothing bad to say about the switch and gave it a B without explaining why you deducted it, so you just left the viewers wondering why which is i'm making the comment in the first place.
no one finished watching the video yet
not anymore
unless they used the playback speed option
I just finish it
I did.
@@Fugo_The_Lightning_Deity it was true when I commented
@@juliannocartagena2007 it was true when I commented
Long video! I can finally code without changing the video all the time!
how do you code AND listen to him??? or do you just want something in the background?
@@yoshua15 Well he's not that annoying imo 😭
@@yoshua15 ye
The Wii U was by far the biggest money-losing name by far. So unnecessarily confusing on top of being uncool.
They would have sold millions of more units if they just called it the "Wii 2".
But then its more of a scam, as it isnt really as similar as the wii.
This video makes me so angry
Whenever I talk to my friend about the Switch I start singing like an idiot: “Switch dreams are made of this”, making a stupid pun.
Last time, he had the wisdom to say: “Man... These guys don't know anything! They should call the Switch's successor 'Switch Dreams'. We should work on Nintendo's marketing.”
Nintendo 64 may not be the best name but it's abbreviation of N64 is a tier
Nes is Nintendo’s first true console they had to start somewhere
And? They had to start somewhere, and they started with an ass name. Atari started with the 2600, Nintendo started with a corporate document title.
@@koolaid33 Actually it was called the VCS before the 2600 (Atari Video Computer System)
They did start with something, it was "Family Computer", but seems like it was so hard for the US public, they decided by a generic name 😂
Rough start it was
let me start talking about sega
SG-1000 feels like you are doing a project for space
Master system feels like you have mastered an ability by purchasing it
Sega Mega Drive feels like you are driving at the speed of sound and also the name hints at sonic.
Sega Saturn is about the Saturn duh.
Dreamcast now dream dream dream nightmares away! go back away (sorry just was rhyming)
My dad used to call the Nintendo DS the Nintendo Dumb Shit
That’s all I came here to say
Quit giving Nintendo systems f rating ok.
I'd also have put down "Sega Power Base" for the SMS, as Master System was an unofficial name on the console that just kind of stuck, it's real North American name is the Power Base, which is why the Genesis adapter is called the "Power Base Converter." Still, Power Base isn't very good either, but just saying :/
Nice fact right there
That N64 take. Yikes. RIP your comment section lol
Xbox 360 feels like it has more to do with the sphere/circle branding contrasting the “box of it all” of the first console, with the new logo, the name, and the rounded, smoothed out hardware all fulfilling that.
this is the earliest ive been to a kiro video holyyyy
agreed
Microsoft has been going out of their way to make the names as confusing as possible. I bet their next system will be called the Xbox Controller.
Should have mentioned how Nintendo wanted to shorten Family Computer to Famicom. They couldn't when they initially released the system due to SHARP holding a trademark under a very similar name and even after that mess got solved, Nintendo would stick with the full Family Computer name. The name also has a lot more meaning to it as it contrasts with personal computers, which were usually used by a single person while a Family Computer is a computer for the whole family. The shortened Famicom name also has a really good ring to it and I'd argue it's a much better name than Nintendo Entertainment System or NES when the Famicom was redesigned for the western market (although I am biased). But without any of this context I get why people especially outside of Asia would be confused at the Family Computer name.
Microsoft when naming the Xboxes🤪
Sony when naming the PlayStations😎
Nintendo when naming their Consoles🧐
And after seeing the video I have to disagree with your opinion. The problem here is that you want the names to be creative but are forgetting that a console's name must also be intuitive and must be representative of what makes it unique, of what it can do.
Nintendo DS works because nearly all games will use its two screens in one way or another, so it had to be represented. Wii works because it is a more casual-focussed console. Nintendo Entertainment System works because back then toy stores didn't want to sell video game consoles thanks to Atari's oopsie, as such Nintendo named theirs in such a way that it could be called a toy (that's also why ROB was created as well).
And you also want console sequels to have names that are way different from their originals, but that would just cause mass confusion. If a console is supposed to be part of the same line another console is on, then they must share a "family" name.
I disagree with you
Odyssey, Genesis, Saturn and Dreamcast are the best. Quest is cool too
@@trapez77 Did I say those names were bad?.
And why are you disagreeing with me?.
@@toumabyakuya because you are saying that names are better when they describe the product but I disagree. You’re forgetting about an important factor called mystique
@@trapez77 However, mystique wont save a console when people are too confused to understand it, just see the WiiU or the XBox Series as examples.
Nintendo was obsessed with the “new” branding for awhile. Im surprised they didn’t call the Wii U the New Wii.
Also for the switch lite they didn’t have a choice but to call it switch something since it is still a switch that can play switch games so yeah it’s dumb that It doesn’t “switch”
What then hell are any of the XBOX subtitles supposed to mean? I only know the explanation for the One.
Why would Sony suddenly have an urged to changed the name of PlayStation 5? What do you wanna call it to be creative? PlayStation Wakanda? Personally for me, Sony did the smartest thing and named their home consoles simple that even new consumers would be able to discern it.
ABSOLUTELY! Even grandmas will differentiate
And then compensated with really bad names for their portables.
They will never live down the "VITA MEANS LIFE" bit.
@@gligarguy4010To be fair. PSP/PlayStation Portable was a great name. PS Vita should have been called PSP 2/PlayStation Portable 2. They actually followed that naming for PSVR and PSVR 2.
@@KingAgniKai agree. If they wanted to stick with those numbers, then why did they name it vita???
Is it just me or a *LOT* of these "quick rating" videos tend to have really odd standards, nitpick a lot or just demand everything to be creative and unique when a lot of the times simple is better?
Like... I don't get what's so bad about each new PlayStation having a number, it's simple, to the point, it tells you exactly the generation it's from and it just rolls off the tongue better than if they started adding increasingly dumber names after "PlayStation," especially when abbreviated.
Hey at least Nintendo 64 is a unique name and it’s kind of quirky sounding
I agree with the Sega console names being all awesome, but no way Mega Drive is more cool than GENESIS imo
I could be wrong but I’m pretty sure I heard that the Xbox 360 is called “360” because it revolves around the player, like it’s focus on your experience you are the center of your Xbox
It has many interpretations
It makes the OG Xbox sound like a 2D console
I don't mind the name of the Game Boy Color. It isn't supposed to be the next generation handheld. Just an upgraded version of the Game Boy that has color.
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I think switch is an s tier name, switching up how you play from tv to handheld, switching up technology with the fancy joy cons with lots of new little features, and it’s snappy and fun to say and super easy to talk about in casual conversations unlike Xbox Series X
(Also the little sound that cane with the branding is too satisfying and iconic to ignore)
Wii would like to play
chat is this is 100th video? woopie!!!
For all the random picks I’m surprised you didn’t put the Sega Pico
The GameCube at LEAST deserves a B.
Nintendo console names are almost always silly until we become accustomed, yes we love 64 and the number has meaning behind it, but back then it really was a random number. The wii was such a stupid name yet it was on everyone's mouth. Same with the switch, i remember seeing the reveal trailer with some friends and we audibly laughed at the name, but now its like its so natural
The switch is good for what the console is
As someone whose first system was the NES in the late eighties & having followed video games fairly closely since the mid nineties, I was amazed at how many of these I had never heard of.
Nahh GameCube should have been triple S
13:26 As mentioned in the Angry Video Game Nerd episode (alongside the voice clip when booting up the console) - the console is supposed to pronounced as "Game Com". Doesn't change too much, but felt like correcting that.
U sound like u just woke up
And also all of us woke up, and us is also we. Introducing the Wii U Woke Up.
Where are the Leapster and the V Smile? Here's a list of every variant of the Leapster in order (and the Explorer line just because they reused the "Leapster" name for 2 products) in case you ever see this and decide to rank them:
- Leapster Multimedia Learning System (2003) (first ARCTangent A5 Leapster)
- Leapster Learning Gaming System (2004)
- Leapster L-Max (2004)
- Leapster TV (2005)
- Leapster Portable Technology Center (school-exclusive) (2007) (is identical to the LGS visually but they changed the text on the front)
- Leapster 2 (2008) (final ARCTangent A5 Leapster)
- Didj (2008) (hardware was reused for the Leapster Explorer)
- Leapster Explorer (2010) (first ARM-based Linux Leapster)
- LeapsterGS Explorer (2011) (final ARM-based Linux Leapster)
- LeapPad Explorer (2012)
- LeapPad 2 Explorer (2013)
- LeapPad 3 (2014)
- LeapPad Ultra (2014)
- LeapPad Platinum (2015)
- LeapTV (2015) (Has nothing to do with the Leapster TV, runs Linux)
- LeapFrog Epic (not an Explorer, but people group this in with the LeapPads a lot) (2016)
- LeapPad Ultimate (2018)
- LeapPad Jr. (this was the final model of the Explorer line) (2018)
- LeapFrog Epic Academy (2020)
- Leapster Ultra (2024) (the first and currently only GeneralPlus Leapster)
"Dreamcast" goes hard
This video gets a D, needs actual researching.
the video is about not researching, but just rating how the names sound
f tier, it really is a bad idea
PS3 gets a D because you didn't use its true name, da PS TRIPLE!
Also, the Switch Lite should've been called "Lite Switch" because at least it's punny.
whar
19:31 because 360 is full 3D and also spheres are part of their iconography
With two lines REVOLVING around them… to make an X
Why not call it 3d then
bro, half of the comments are you. you even did a triple reply to one guy before. collect your thoughts and make one structured comment or something
@@I_Am_Wasabi_Man Calm down, you don't get to tell people what to comment or how.
Shouldn't it be box/cube and not a sphere?
What was Microsoft thinking? I couldn't come up with worse names even if I tried 😂
Imo “gameboy” is a horrible name. I’m not trying to be that guy but why would you put “boy” in a console name? Also you can argue PlayStations names are bad but I don’t know what else sony would call them? Look at Apple, they’re on the iPhone fucking 16. “PS5” isn’t that bad in the grand scheme of things.
Where is the E? An E would be more satisfying than an F for the worst name.
Didn't Commodore sue Nintendo over the name "64"? It was during the time the Tron 2 movie came out. Commodore was trying to make a comeback at that time, and implied a connection with Tron. Nintendo and Commodore agreed that they will call them the N64 and C64, even when the context clearly excluded the other.
Bruh, Sony's naming idea is amazing. It's simple, clean, and tells everyone that it's the newest console and d is the successor to the previous one. It's the best method of console naming. Where as Nintendo and Xbox Studios keep making it weird and different.
Microsoft had perfect name for the Xbox one X and the series X, respectively Scorpio and Scarlett.
Instead they went for their confusing and bland definitive name they bear today. How can a codename sounds better than the actual name.
Nice video!
29:34
Funny because when I hear "Xbox Series", I think of an accessories line of devices that Microsoft licensed for their systems or something akin to that. Years later and I still hate the name.
What do you think of the Bally Astrocade, the Magnavox Odyssey 2, RCA Studio II, Emerson Arcadia 2001 and the Milton Bradley Micro vision?
pretty bad idea to rank console names based on how they sound rather than how theyre designed. Nintendo wasnt focusing on how the switch would sound good when you said it, they were focusing on what it represented.
27:07
I remember telling my mom about this console. And I tried telling her that the “New” was part of the name. She wasn’t buying the idea that it was called New Nintendo 3DS and just assumed the “New” referred to it being just new and would lose the “new” in like a few months or a year.
I disagree about the PlayStation names. Yeah it’s boring to only name them numbers but at least there is zero confusion about what the new console is. We don’t have a Wii U or Xbox one problem and we don’t have to worry about that ever as long as Sony keeps the basic numbering up.
Nintendo's console names are quirky, Sony's are logical but plain, Microsoft's are as confusing as humanly possible.