• ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
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    9 months ago

    They didn’t want to say xbox 2 because it was less than PS3

    But Nintendo had no problems with jumping to 64

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      9 months ago

      This is the real reason, they were afraid consumers would think “3 is bigger than 2 so the Sony one must be better”.

      I think Nintendo gets a pass because they never used numbers anyway: NES -> SNES -> 64 -> gamecube -> wii -> switch. The 64 of course was about the hardware technology and not the generation or anything.